List of Italian Renaissance female artists

List of Italian Renaissance female artists (Italian: Le donne pittrici del Rinascimento italiano) included painters, manuscript illustrators and sculptors who lived in Italy in 15-16th centuries.

[1][2] For other countries see List of 16th-century women artists.

More than 25 women active in 20 cities from Venice to Naples have been recorded as artists during the Cinquecento.

Most were painters, but 2 were called intagliatrici, 4 (all Milanesi) ricamatrici, Properzia De'Rossi was the sole scultrice.

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Marginal self-portrait of Maria Ormani , 1453.