A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ginassi, Caterina

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4120472A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Ginassi, Caterina

GINASSI, CATERINA,

Was born of a noble 'family at Rome, in 1590. She was the niece of Cardinal Domenico Ginassi. She studied painting under Giovanni Lanfranco, from whose designs she executed several pictures in the convent of St. Lucia. She died in 1660.