Renaissance Europe
Women artists, patrons, and collectors in Europe from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
Caterina Vigri
St. Catherine of Bologna
Italian painter and manuscript illuminator | 1413—1463
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Maria Ormani
Maria di Ormanno degli Albizzi
Italian manuscript illuminator | 1428—c. 1470
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Agnes van den Bossche
Flemish painter | c. 1435-40—after 1502
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Antonia Doni
Suor Antonia Uccello
Italian artist | 1446—1491
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Andriola de Baracchi (Barrachis)
Italian painter | 1446—c. 1504
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Sibylla von Bondorff
German manuscript illuminator | c. 1450—1524
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Isabella d’Este
Marchesa of Mantua
Italian patron | 1474—1539
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Eufrasia Burlamacchi
Italian manuscript illuminator | 1482—1548
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Margaret of Austria
Regent of The Netherlands
Austrian patron | 1480—1530
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Properzia de’ Rossi
Italian sculptor | c. 1490—1530
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Roxelana
Hürrem Sultan
Ottoman patron | c. 1505—1558
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Catherine de’ Medici
Queen of France
Italian patron | 1519—1589
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Levina Teerlinc
Flemish miniaturist | c. 1520—London, 1576
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Mechtelt van Lichtenberg toe Boecop
North Netherlandish painter | 1520—1598
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Suor Plautilla Nelli
Italian painter | 1524—1588
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Caterina van Hemessen
Flemish painter | 1528—1588
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Sofonisba Anguissola
Italian painter | 1531—1625
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Lucia Anguissola
Italian painter | c. 1540—1565
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Lucrezia Quistelli
Italian painter | 1541—1594
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Diana Scultori
also Diana Ghisi or Diana Mantuana
Italian engraver | c. 1547—1612
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Lavinia Fontana
Italian painter | 1552—1614
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Barbara Longhi
Italian painter | 1552—1638
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Marietta Robusti
Italian painter | c. 1550—1590
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Cornelia toe Boecop
North Netherlandish painter | after 1561—1630/4
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Elisabetta Catanea Parasole
Italian lace and embroidery designer, engraver and woodcutter | 1565?—1625
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Esther Inglis
Scottish calligrapher, embroiderer and miniaturist | 1571—1624
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Fede Galizia
Italian painter | 1578—1630
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