Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782)

Venetian Painter Giulia Lama 1681-1747.

Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717 was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly.

Elisabetta Sirani 1638-1665 Italian Painter

Clara Peeters’s considerable skill at rendering naturalistic texture and detail is on full display in Still Life of Fish and Cat. In this work, she realistically depicted household abundance, without the subtle moral or subtext often associated with still lifes.

Artemisia is the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century. She worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples and London, for the highest echelons of European society, including the Grand Duke of Tuscany and Philip IV of Spain.

Barbara Longhi - Italian High Renaissance painter (1552-1638) #artcast #womenartists #arthistory #painters