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Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
Artist	Sofonisba Anguissola
Year	late 1550s
Medium	oil on canvas
Location	Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola is an oil on canvas painting from the late 1550s by one of the most important woman artists of the Italian Renaissance, Sofonisba Anguissola. It is a double portrait in which Anguissola has painted a self-portrait as if it were a canvas being painted by her teacher, Bernardino Campi. Whitney Chadwick has called this "the first historical example of the woman artist consciously collapsing the subject-object position." Mary Garrard has noted that this is an important example of what Giorgio Vasari termed a "breathing likeness."

Subject Matter

Despite not being physically present in the scene, Anguissola established herself as the primary subject of the piece by making the self-portrait appear larger than the artist.

Footnotes

• Whitney Chadwick (1990). Women, Art and Society. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Mary D. Garrard. "Here's Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist." Renaissance Quarterly 47 (3):556-662.
• Jacobs, Frederika H. “Woman’s Capacity to Create: The Unusual Case of Sofonisba Anguissola.” Renaissance Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1994): 74–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/2863112.
• GRUDIN, ROBERT. “The Lady in the Picture: Design and Revelation in Renaissance Art.” In Design And Truth, 88–104. Yale University Press, 2010. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1nq26z.12.
• Sandberg, Claire E. “Sofonisba Anguissola’s Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola and the Ideal Cortigiana.” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020.
• Musolff, Meghan Jane Kalasky. “Sofonisba Anguissola’s ‘Double Portrait.’” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2003.
• Cole, Michael Wayne. Sofonisba’s Lesson : A Renaissance Artist and Her Work. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

External links

• Web Gallery of Art