WOMEN IN THE BACKROUND OF HISTORY
SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1535[3] – November 16, 1625) was an Italian painter, considered the first successful female painter of the Renaissance. She cultivated portraiture and self–portraiture, establishing new rules in the field of female portraiture. At the age of twenty-seven he settled in Spain, at the court of King Philip II. He is credited with an important role as a link between Italian and Spanish portraiture in the sixteenth century, as well as a notable influence on the subsequent development of this genre in Italy. Her career was a precedent for several women artists who had been excluded from academic teaching, guilds and workshops and papal patronage, but who did find support in the European courts between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.