List of Italian Renaissance female artists

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

For other countries see List of 16th-century women artists.

15th century

 * Onorata Rodiani (1403–1452) – semi-legendary painter
 * Catherine of Bologna (Caterina de' Vigri) (1413–1463) – nun, artist, writer, later saint
 * Maria Ormani (1428–c.1470) – manuscript illustrator and nun
 * Elena de Laudo (fl. 1445) – Venetian glass artist.
 * Antonia Doni (Antonia di Paolo di Dono, Antonia Uccello) (1446-1491) – painter, daughter of Paolo Uccello. Mentioned in documents as "pittoressa" – first usage of feminine term. Nun.
 * Barbara Ragnoni (1448 – 1533) – painter, nun
 * Suor Barbara Ragnoni (15th century) – manuscript illuminator, nun
 * Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1482–1548) – manuscript illuminator, nun
 * Marietta Barovier (fl. 1496) – Venetian glass artist

16th century
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.


 * Properzia de' Rossi (1490-1530) – sculptor, the only woman to receive a biography in 1st edition of Vasari's Lives of the Artists.
 * Elisabetta Alberti (d. 1555) – painter, daughter of painter Alberto di Giovanni Alberti.
 * Teodora Danti (c.1498–c.1573) – painter, writer. Aunt of sculptor Vincenzo Danti.
 * Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) – painter, nun. Her disciples: Suor Prudenza Cambi, Suor Agata Trabalesi, Suor Maria Ruggieri, and three others as additional producers: Suor Veronica, Suor Dionisia Niccolini, and his sister Suor Maria Angelica Razzi.
 * Anguissola family:
 *  Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625), painter
 * Elena Anguissola (c.1532–1584), painter
 * Lucia Anguissola (c.1538 – c.1565), painter
 * Irene di Spilimbergo (1540–1559) – painter and poet
 * Lucrezia Quistelli della Mirandola (1541-1594), painter countess
 * Diana Scultori Mantuana (1547-1612) – engraver, daughter of the sculptor and engraver Giovanni Battista Ghisi. One of the first female engravers.
 * Mariangiola Criscuolo (c.1548–1630) – painter, daughter of painter Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo.
 * Cecilia Brusasorzi (1549 – 1593) – painter, daughter of painter Domenico Brusasorzi.
 * Barbara Longhi (1552-1638) – painter, daughter of painter Luca Longhi
 *  Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) – painter, daughter of painter Prospero Fontana. First female career artist in Western Europe as she relied on commissions for her income.
 * Marietta Robusti (La Tintoretta) (c.1560–1590) – painter, daughter of Tintoretto
 * Maria Angelica Razzi (16th century) – sculptor, nun

Baroque female artists

 * Geronima Parasole (1569–1622) – wood block cutter and print maker
 * Isabella Parasole (c.1570–c.1620) – wood engraver
 * Fede Galizia (1578 – c. 1630) –  pioneering still-life painter, daughter of painter Nunzio Galizia.
 * Chiara Varotari (1584–1663) – painter, daughter of painter Dario Varotari the Elder
 * Lucrina Fetti (c.1590–1651) – painter, daughter of painter Pietro Fetti, nun
 * Angelica Veronica Airola (c.1590–1670) – painter, nun
 * Caterina Ginnasi (1590–1660) – painter, niece of cardinal
 * Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1656), painter
 * Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) – religious mannerist painter, daughter of painter Guglielmo Caccia, nun
 * Maria Eufrasia della Croce (1597–1676) – nun, painter
 * Arcangela Paladini (1599–1622) – painter, daughter of painter Filippo Paladini
 * Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) – painter, niece of painter Pietro Gaia