Maddalena Corvina Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: John William Bradley. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists: With References to Their Works, and Notices of Their Patrons, from the Establishment of Christianity to the Eighteenth Century. 1887. B. Quaritch. 255.
  2. Book: Jane Fortune. Linda Falcone. Invisibile women. Forgotten artist of Florence. Ediz. italiana e inglese. 2010. TheFlorentinePress. 978-88-902434-5-5. 205.
  3. Web site: Portrait of Maddalena Corvina (Italian) . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 3 December 2018.