Antonia di Paolo di Dono

Antonia di Paolo di Dono (1456–1491) was the daughter of Paolo di Dono, nicknamed Uccello, a well-known early Renaissance Florentine painter. Giorgio Vasari's biography of Uccello states that he had "a daughter who knew how to draw."[1] Antonia was recorded in the Libro dei Morti (Book of the Dead) of the painter's guild, Arte dei Medici e Speziali, as a "pittoressa."[2] This was the first time the feminine form of the word "painter" appears in Florentine public records and the first formal recognition of a fifteenth-century woman artist.

  1. ^ Vasari, Giorgio (1550). Le Vite de'Piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori ed Architettori, I, ed. P. Barocchi , Florence: Sansoni, p. 72
  2. ^ tlion.sns.it https://tlion.sns.it/mssb/rsolnav.php?op=browse&type=fetch&contenttype=biblioteca&id=759. Retrieved 2021-07-26. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)