Elisabetta Sirani

1638–1665 · Baroque

Elisabetta Sirani was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna. She became a successful painter, producing public altarpieces as well as privately commissioned pictures.

16 paintings

• Allegory of Music (1659)
• The Liberality (1657)
• Kleopatra (1664)
• Portrait of Signora Ortensia Leoni Cordini as Saint Dorothy (1660)
• Battesimo di Cristo
• Venere e Amore (1664)
• The Madonna and Child with a swallow (1663)
• Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1650)
• The Dream of St. Anthony (1650)
• Young Saint John the Baptist with Agnus Dei (1665)
• Portrait of Vincenzo Ferdinando Ranuzzi as Amor (1663)
• Omphale (1660)
• Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great (1659)
• Portia Wounding her Thigh (1664)
• L'Amour endormi (1638)
• Saint Mary Magdalene in Penance (1663)