In the history of art, Rosalba Carriera is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Rosalba Carriera as Italian portrait painter and pastellist (1675–1757).
Rosalba Carriera was born at Venice in 1675. Her recorded nationality is Italy.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
She worked as painter, draftsperson and architectural drafter.
Her recorded movement is rococo.
Among her best-known works are Portrait of a gentleman in red and Portrait of a boy. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
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.
Rosalba Carriera died in 1757, aged 82. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Portrait of a gentleman in red
- Notable work: Portrait of a boy
- Movement: Rococo
