[2] Her father, Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo (c. 1529 – 1561), was also an artist in Naples, whose style was similar to followers of Raphael.
[3] The similarities in style in Mariangela’s work with that of her father makes him a probable source of her informal training in becoming a painter.
[4] Those similarities in style are more clearly illustrated in Giovanni Filippo’s Annunciation for San Paolo Maggiore in Naples and Mariangela’s depiction of the same scene for the parocchiale di Bucciano in Benevento.
[2] While still married to her husband, Mariangela also ran possibly the earliest documented female-organized informal school of art in Naples.
[4] De Dominici acknowledges Mariangela’s accomplishments as an artist and founder of an art school accepting both men and women.