Lucia Anguissola worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Lucia Anguissola as Italian painter (1536-1565).
Lucia Anguissola was born at Cremona in 1536. Her recorded nationality is Italy.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
She worked as painter.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Lucia Anguissola died in 1565, aged 29. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
