Portrait of Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola or Lady in White is an oil-on canvas-painting created in 1557 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. It is a portrait of the artist's mother.Italian women artists from Renaissance to Baroque, Milano, Skira, 2007 Flavio Caroli, Sofonisba Anguissola e le sue sorelle, Milano, A. Mondadori, 1987 It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It is securely identified as the artist's mother, since it reuses two elements from The Game of Chess, Lucia's pearl headdress and Minerva/Elena's necklace. Sofonisba Anguissola e le sue sorelle, Milano, Leonardo Arte, 1994, page 204 Under the arm of the chair are the signature and date “Sophonisba Angussola Virgo F. 15.5.7.”
See also List of paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola
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