A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Zanardi, Gentile

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4121277A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Zanardi, Gentile

ZANARDI, GENTILE,

Was an artist, a native of Bologna, and flourished in the seventeenth century. She was instructed by Marc Antonio Franceschini, and had an extraordinary talent in copying the works of the great masters. She also painted historical subjects of her own design with equal taste and delicacy. The time of her death is not mentioned.