User:Bryony L. Talley/Arcangela Paladini

Career
Arcangela Paladini was proficient in many artistic areas, such as singing, writing poetry, and painting, as well as other areas. She was skilled in these areas by the age of 15. In addition to being a skilled painter, she also created embroidered works, such as portraits and images of flowers, foliage, and various types of wildlife. Although only one of her works has been identified, there are descriptions of her portraits of the Grand Duke Cosimo II in the Medici inventories, as well as evidence of Maria Maddelena's spreading of her work throughout the continent. The descriptions describe both pen-and-ink portraits and embroidered portraits of Cosimo II. In 1621, she was commissioned to create her self portrait that was to eventually be displayed in the Vasari Corridor.