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Portrait Group with the Artist’s Father Amilcare Anguissola, Brother Astrubale and Sister Minerva

Sensitivity, warmth and mutual tenderness permeate this family portrait depicting the artist’s father, Amilcare, brother, Astrubale, and sister, Minerva. The family relationship is weighted higher than the figurative and formal characteristics. The spontaneously expressive and immediate character of a number of her portraits would later inspire an artist like Caravaggio. Sofonisba mastered the por…

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Creator

  • Sofonisba Anguissola
  • Sofonisba Anguissola

Subject

  • family
  • dog
  • Amilcare Anguissola
  • Minerva Anguissola

Type of item

  • Group portrait
  • oil paintings (visual works)
  • group portrait

Medium

  • Oil painting
  • oil painting (technique)
  • canvas (textile material)

Creator

  • Sofonisba Anguissola
  • Sofonisba Anguissola

Subject

  • family
  • dog
  • Amilcare Anguissola
  • Minerva Anguissola

Type of item

  • Group portrait
  • oil paintings (visual works)
  • group portrait

Medium

  • Oil painting
  • oil painting (technique)
  • canvas (textile material)

Providing institution

  • Nivaagaards Malerisamling

Aggregator

  • Europeana 280

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

User generated content

  • false

Creation date

  • Ca. 1559
  • 1559~

Current location

  • Nivaagaards Malerisamling

Identifier

  • DEN_280_002

Extent

  • 157 x 122 cm

Providing country

  • Denmark

Collection name

  • 2063604_EU_280_Denmark

Timestamp created

  • 2015-12-10T15:40:40.885Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2023-09-06T08:25:22.806Z