Born 8th January 1638, Elisabetta Sirani.

Italian baroque painter/printmaker.

She established an academy for other female artists. She painted Timoclea of Thebes throwing the man who raped her down a well (she then threw rocks at him until he was dead), painted in 1659. She died in unexplained circumstances aged only 27.

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