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2 days agoLong-Lost Portrait by a Renaissance Trailblazer Resurfaces
A 1552 portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola, long thought lost, was rediscovered and is exhibited at the Winter Show via dealer Robert Simon.
Anguissola was the rare woman painter in the Renaissance who was not the daughter of an artist. Born to Northern Italian nobility around 1532, she and her siblings received a comprehensive education that included art. After moving to Rome as a young woman, she was taken under the wing of Michelangelo and also became acquainted with Giorgio Vasari, who wrote that Anguissola "has laboured at the difficulties of design with greater study and better grace than any other woman of our time".