Elisabetta Sirani

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The life of Elisabetta Sirani—‘the best brush in Bologna’—explored in new publication

Despite meticulously documenting her own career, the artist was largely forgotten in the centuries after her death

Baroque sensation Elisabetta Sirani finally has her first solo show outside Italy

The 17th-century Bologna-based painter is the subject of a concentrated presentation at Robert Simon Gallery in New York