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Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) was a well-known portraitist during the Italian Renaissance, studying with a variety of artists from the age of 14. Upon receipt of a drawing she made for him, Michelangelo informally tutored her for a couple of years. A young Van Dyck visited her the year before her death at the age of 93, and wrote that she had taught him more than all of his teachers had up till then. Lost to history in the centuries since her death, the quality of her work is becoming known again.
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Early Venetian Lute Music: "O Mia Cieca E Dura Sorte" and "La Villanella", Vincenzo Capirola
Joyaux de la Renaissance Era: "Saitorella Tylman", Susato and "Italian Ground", Orlando Gibbons
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) was a well-known portraitist during the Italian Renaissance, studying with a variety of artists from the age of 14. Upon receipt of a drawing she made for him, Michelangelo informally tutored her for a couple of years. A young Van Dyck visited her the year before her death at the age of 93, and wrote that she had taught him more than all of his teachers had up till then. Lost to history in the centuries since her death, the quality of her work is becoming known again.
Music is from
Early Venetian Lute Music: "O Mia Cieca E Dura Sorte" and "La Villanella", Vincenzo Capirola
Joyaux de la Renaissance Era: "Saitorella Tylman", Susato and "Italian Ground", Orlando Gibbons
