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ROSA AREA
THE OTHER HALF 'OF 'ART
Sofonisba Anguissola, the lady of Renaissance painting, Cremona Palermo-born adoption
begins with Sofonisba Anguissola and her sisters the entry of women in the history of painting. We are in the '500 and women, though talented, are kept away from art workshops, reserved for men. But in the noble family Anguissola there must have adequate means for all six sisters are initiated into the arts and is home to this household world that it will inspire many paintings of scenes of family life. Only Sofonisba, the most talented, is allowed to attend - not alone, something unthinkable in those days, but in the company of one of the sisters - the shop of the Lombard painter Bernardino Campi. Was born in Cremona in 1530 and soon, thanks to the high places of the father of Hannibal and his reputation as a portrait painter, was called to the court of the Farnese, Gonzaga, and even by Philip II in Madrid, where he also became lady-girl to Queen Isabella of Valois with which he held a relationship of trust and deep friendship, sharing a passion for painting. It is in that court, having the artist expressed his desire to marry an Italian, which was combined by proxy marriage with the Sicilian Don Fabrizio Moncada Paternò governor. After her husband's death, which occurred at sea during an attack by pirates, he left Sicily and Livorno knew the noble Genoese captain who married Horace Lomellini moving then Genoa. At 83 years her husband brought the island where he had many interests to be treated. In Palermo continued to paint in the Arab quarter of Seracaldi, better known as the Cape, despite the sharp fall in sight to a cataract. And it is around 90 years that the artist meets the young and promising Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, who had admired his paintings at the English court, eager to meet you in person. The painter had been asked to Palermo by Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Viceroy of Sicily on behalf of King Philip VI of Spain, because he did a portrait. On that occasion, while he performed a sketch artist, the old woman was able to converse amiably tell him to give valuable advice and technical as to not otherwise take the light from the shadows of the wrinkles of old age becomes too strong. His portraits are held in prestigious museums of Europe and America, but who would go so far as one can see where the artist painted in Paternò, sorrow, remembrance of her husband in an oil painting of the Madonna dell'Itria to referred to the House of Moncada was particularly devoted. The painting is in the Church of the Annunciation, is undated and the signature and only recently has been attributed to the painter through a notarial document found in the archive of Catania.
He died in 1625 and was buried in the crypt of the church of San Giorgio dei Genovesi, Palermo, where he still can read a plaque in which the husband Horace Lomellini expresses all her grief and admiration for his beloved wife.
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