Fede Galizia (1578-1630)

Aliases: Fede Gallizi

Professions: Painter; Miniaturist

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  Fede Galizia (Milan 1578-1630)

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  Fede Galizia (Milan 1578-1630)

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  Fede Galizia (Milan 1578-1630)

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Fede Galizia Biography

(b Milan, 1578; d Milan, 1630). Italian painter. She was the daughter and pupil of Nunzio Galizia (fl 1573–95), who moved to Milan from Trento. Her precocious achievements were first noted when she was 12 (Lomazzo); by 1596 she was known as a painter of portraits and religious compositions. The style of her portraits derived from the naturalistic traditions of the Renaissance in Italy, demonstrated in the work of such artists as Moretto da Brescia, Giovanni Battista Moroni and Lorenzo Lotto. The sharply realistic portrait of Paolo Morigia (1596; Milan, Bib. Ambrosiana; see fig.), an early patron who extolled her work in La nobiltà di Milano (Milan, 1595), shows this scholar and historian (1525–1604) in the act of completing laudatory verses in her honour. She received several public commissions for altarpieces in Milanese churches, among them that for the Noli me tangere (1616; Milan, S Stefano) for the high altar of S Maria Maddalena.

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