Sofonisba's lesson [0,10 mb]Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535-1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house. She went on to serve as an instructor to Isabel of Valois, the young queen of Spain. Sofonisbas Lesson sheds new light on Sofonisbas work, offering a major reassessment of a Renaissance painter who changed the image of womens education in Europeand who transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist.
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