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Her Roman beginnings between the work of her father and her gaze towards his colleagues and rivals The Florentine years; The 1620s in Rome, her father in absentia, she herself becomes a leading figure among the surviving naturalists Nearly a quarter of a century of Neapolitan activity Public works and adequate national and international acclaim of her qualities

About the Author

Roberto Contini studied at the Universities of Florence and Pisa and has alternated research - specifically 17th-century painting and graphic art - with his contributions to publishing houses in Milan and Florence. From the spring of 1999 to the summer of 2000, he worked for the Piedmont region's Soprintendenza per i beni artistici e storici [Office for Artistic and Historical Heritage], and since August of that same year he has been the Curator of Italian and Spanish painting from the 16th to the 18th centuries, as well as 17th-century French painting at the Berlin Gemaldegalerie.