Giovanna Garzoni was an Italian Baroque painter. She began her career painting religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects but gained fame for her still life botanical subjects painted in temper
Giovanna Garzoni, self-portrait
Still Life with Bowl of Citrons, late 1640s, now in J. Paul Getty Museum.
Taffeta antependium embroidered in silk with flowers around central medallion of God in splendour, 1640–1650. Uffizi Gallery.
Plate with White Beans, ca. 1650–1662. Gouache on parchment. Galleria Paletina, Florence.
Panfilo Nuvolone was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, who painted both religious and still life topics, active in Cremona and Mantua.
Giovanna Garzoni
…reached Turin in 1632 and lived there until 1637. After staying in Turin, Garzoni became familiar with the work of fellow artists Fede Galizia and Panfilo Nuvolone. A few years later in 1640, Garzoni arrived in Paris and stayed there until 1642 when she went to Rome. Garzoni traveled back and forth from Rome to…
Still-life (1620). Painting by Panfilo Nuvolone (São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo).