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Three of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess 1555 Sofonisba Anguissola (1527-1625)

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A lecture: TWO WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE RENAISSANCE: Artemisia Gentilleschi and Sofonisba Anguissola Thursday, December 3, 1998 6:30 p.m to 8 p.m. sponsored by the Friends of the East Boston Branch Library.

A slide lecture by Gershon Weisenberg, lecturer in Humanities at the Worcester Art Museum and at the Adult Education Centers of Boston, Brookline and Newton.

Artemisia Gentilleschi (1593-c1652) was a leading woman painter of this era and is best known for her violent scenes of Judith Slaying Holofernes (Uffizi, Florence, Italy, 1612-1613) and Susanna and the Elders (Schonborn Collection, Pommerfelden, German, 1610).

Sofonisba Anguissola (1527-1625) was a portrait painter and a role model ot Italian women artists of this period. Her work --Three of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess (National Museum, Poznan, Poland, 1955) -- has been labeled as the first "conversation piece" portrait.

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