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fine arts, and her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. as a young woman, anguissola traveled to rome where she was introduced to michelangelo , who immediately recognized her talent, and to milan, where she painted the duke of alba. the spanish
queen, elizabeth of valois, was a keen amateur painter and in anguissola was recruited to go to madrid as her tutor, with the rank of lady-in-waiting. she later became an official court painter to the king, philip ii, and adapted her style to the more formal requirements of official portraits for the...
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