A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Panzacchia, Maria Elena

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PANZACCHIA, MARIA ELENA,

Was born at Bologna, in 1668, of a noble family. She learned design under Emilio Taruffl, and in a few years acquired great readiness in composition, correctness of outline, and,a lovely tint of colouring. Besides history, she also excelled in painting landscapes; and by the beauty of her situations and distances, allured and entertained the eye of every beholder. The figures which she inserted had abundance of grace; she designed them with becoming attitudes, and gave them a lively and natural expression. Her merit was incontestably acknowledged, and her works were so much prized as to be exceedingly scarce, few being found out of Bologna. She died in 1709.