Portrait of Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola

Portrait of Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola or Lady in White[1] is an oil-on canvas-painting created in 1557 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. It is a portrait of the artist's mother.[2][3] It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.[4] It is securely identified as the artist's mother, since it reuses two elements from The Game of Chess, Lucia's pearl headdress and Minerva/Elena's necklace[5] Under the arm of the chair are the signature and date "Sophonisba Angussola Virgo F. 15.5.7".

Portrait of Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola (1557) by Sofonisba Anguissola

References
  1. "Cultorweb entry".
  2. Italian women artists from Renaissance to Baroque, Milano, Skira, 2007
  3. (in Italian) Flavio Caroli, Sofonisba Anguissola e le sue sorelle, Milano, A. Mondadori, 1987
  4. "The work on display, 1926-1933" (in German).
  5. (in Italian) Sofonisba Anguissola e le sue sorelle, Milano, Leonardo Arte, 1994, page 204
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