Maria Giovanna Clementi

Maria Giovanna Clementi (1692–1761), called la Clementina, was an Italian painter, specializing in portraits.

[1] She was born in Turin, the daughter of a surgeon, Giovanni Pietro Giuseppe Bussano (Bussana, Buzana) and Maria Cristina Ausineti.

She trained in Turin with court painter Giovanni Battista Curlando, who advised her to specialize in portraits.

In 1733 she resided with her husband in the palace of Count Carlo Giacinto Roero.

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