A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Paladini, Archangela

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PALADINI, ARCHANGELA,

An Italian historical painter, was born at Pisa, in 1599, and died in 1622, aged twenty-three. She was the daughter of Filippo Paladini, an eminent artist of that city, who instructed her in the art. She attained great excellence in portrait-painting, and also excelled in embroidery and music, and sang exquisitely. These uncommon talents, united with an agreeable person, procured her the friendship of Maria Magdalena, archduchess of Austria, who lived at Florence, and in whose court this artist spent the last years of her life.