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previous round: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/game/5557869
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This Round: Sofonisba Anguissola c. 1532 - 1625 (aged 93!)

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Sofonisba Anguissola, also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family. She received a well-rounded education that included the fine arts, and her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. As a young woman, Anguissola traveled to Rome where she was introduced to Michelangelo, who immediately recognized her talent.

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Anguissola's example, as much as her oeuvre, had a lasting influence on subsequent generations of artists, and her great success opened the way for larger numbers of women to pursue serious careers as artists.

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Choose your favourite Sofonisba Anguissola painting

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1) Portrait of Prince Alessandro Farnese (1545-1592), later Duke of Parma and Piacenza (c.1560)

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2) Portrait of Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (1550s)

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3) Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess (1555)

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4) Portrait of a Monk (1556)

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5) Self-Portrait at the Easel (1556)

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6) Infantas Isabella Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela (1570)

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7) Three Children with a Dog (1580s)

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8) Portrait Giuliano II Cesarini aged 14 (1586)

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Name the DW

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Her last name is that of a famous Italian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Italy)

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The names are Medieval Italian

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1) Abondancia Leonoria Calpuana Renatuccia Eufimia Orsetta Guillelma Verdiana Anthonia Mirabel
2) Moreta Achilla Liona Carabella Vituccia Felice Palma Honesta Sancta Argentina
3) Belhonor Soave Adaleta Malgarita Castella Ymilia Fiordelise Patientia Imperia Napoleona
4) Nera Bellacara Soliana Adelagia Massaria Cherubina Zillia Franceschetta Persia Iunone
5) Jesmonda Ninuccia Bellavita Temperantia Agnesina Maximilla Corelia Zelante Galiana Pomellina
6) Vivinna Junipera Nofra Bettisia Tessina Aidelina Mea Cristofana Pomm Gentile
7) Giletta Tomasina Landa Zaneta Bonitas Odedientia Altabella Michelotta Dianora Prudenzia
8) Vannozza Grimelda Argentina Lella Zuana Divitia Orelia Alteria Milia Emerentiana

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formerly Belphoebe

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I am in the mood
to dissolve
in the sky.
- Virginia Woolf

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