Maddalena Corvina | |
Birth Date: | 17 October 1607 |
Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Known For: | Painting Engraving |
Style: | Miniature painting Portraiture Still life |
Patrons: | House of Medici |
Maddalena Corvina (1607-1664) was an Italian portrait and still life painter and engraver. Corvina specialized in miniature portrait paintings. Living and working in Rome, the House of Medici were patrons.[1] [2] She apprenticed under her uncle, Francesco da Castello. Anna Angelica Allegrini was a student of Corvina.[2] Works by Corvina are held in the Albani Library.[1] Corvina was the subject of a portrait by Claude Mellan in 1636.[3]