"In 1573, she married an Italian nobleman, Fabrizio Moncada, and moved to Paternò, Sicily, where she remained until Moncada's death in 1578. She then planned to return to Cremona, but sailing back north from Palermo in 1579, she fell in love with the ship's captain, Orazio Lomellini, and they married and lived together in Genoa for the next 35 years. In 1615, the couple moved to Palermo, where Sofonisba lived out the next 10 years of her life."
"Sofonisba was the first of seven children (six daughters and one son) of Amilcare Anguissola (1494-1573) and Bianca Ponzoni (c. 1515 to c. 1600), minor Cremonese nobility. In 1546, Sofonisba and her sister Elena began to receive formal artistic training from the rising young Cremonese artist Bernardino Campi (1522-1591). They worked with Campi for about four years until he left Cremona for Milan, whereupon they continued their artistic education with another well-established local painter, Bernardino Gatti (1495-1576)."
Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona who specialized in portraiture and achieved wide fame as a pioneering female artist. She trained under Bernardino Campi and later Bernardino Gatti, producing numerous self-portraits and family depictions early in her career. She served as painting instructor and lady-in-waiting to Elisabeth of Valois at the Spanish court of Philip II. She married Fabrizio Moncada in 1573, later married Orazio Lomellini in 1579, lived many years in Genoa, and spent her final decade in Palermo. Her portraits are noted for lifelike, psychologically astute characterization.
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