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OverviewAI-generated
Elisabetta Sirani was an Italian painter, printmaker, and etcher of the Baroque movement, born in Bologna on 8 January 1638. She worked in Bologna across the genres of portrait, religious, genre, and history painting, and followed Catholicism. Her father was Giovanni Andrea Sirani, and her student was Ginevra Cantofoli.
She died in Bologna on 28 August 1665 and was buried at the Basilica of San Domenico. Her works are held in the collections of the Museo del Prado, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the National Gallery of Art.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1638-01-08 ) 8 January 1638, Bologna , Papal States
- Died
- 28 August 1665 (1665-08-28) (aged 27), Bologna, Papal States
- Education
- Family
- Known for
- Painting
- Movement
- Baroque
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elisabetta
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Bologna
- Place of death
- Bologna
- Father
- Giovanni Andrea Sirani
- Occupation
- etcher
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Field of work
- visual arts
- Movement
- Baroque
- Image
- Elisabetta Sirani Autorretrato Museo Pushkin Moscu.jpg
- Work location
- Bologna
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- Commons category
- Elisabetta Sirani
- date of birth
- 1638-01-08
- date of death
- 1665-08-28
- Commons Creator page
- Elisabetta Sirani
- student
- Ginevra Cantofoli
- place of burial
- Basilica of San Domenico
- has works in the collection
- Museum der bildenden Künste
- ethnic group
- Italians
- catalog code
- 10
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Works in European collections
17 objects attributed to Elisabetta Sirani, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![S.te Catherine de Sienne [St. Catharina of Siena]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fbazin-n-ab3-0035%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
![[Sainte famille; The Holy Family; The Holy Family with the boy of John]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fsirani-e-v3-5567%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
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Encyclopedic overview
Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna. She became a successful painter, producing public altarpieces as well as privately commissioned pictures.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elisabetta Sirani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.