Elisabetta Sirani

Elisabetta Sirani
Self-Portrait as Allegory of Painting (1658) by Elisabetta Sirani, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Born(1638-01-08)8 January 1638
Died28 August 1665(1665-08-28) (aged 27)
Bologna, Holy Roman Empire
NationalityItalian
EducationFamily
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

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.[1] She was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna, who established an academy for other women artists.[2]

  1. ^ Malvasia 1678, Vol II, 453–467.
  2. ^ Modesti, 1–2.