Anna Bacherini Piattoli
Self-Portrait at the Age of 56, 1776, oil on canvas, in the collection of the Uffizi
Anna Bacherini Piattoli (1720–1788) was an Italian painter.
Biography[]
Born in Florence, Piattoli studied with , Francesco Conti, and Violante Beatrice Siries. She married the painter Gaetano Piattoli in 1741; the couple's son, Giuseppe, also became a painter,[1] while another son, Scipione, achieved some note as a Piarist priest.[2] Anna Piattoli specialized in miniature paintings and pastels, and produced portraits and religious scenes. An oil self-portrait of 1776, in which she is shown copying the Madonna del Sacco of Andrea del Sarto, is in the collection of the Uffizi.[1]
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- ^ Emanuel Rostworowski, Piattoli Scipione, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, Tom XXV, Zakład Narodowy Imenia Ossolińskich I Wydawnictwo Polskieh Akademii Nauk, 1980, ISBN 83-04-00148-9, p. 818
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