List of Italian women artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Italy or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
A
- Carla Accardi, abstractionist painter
- Eleonora Aguiari, installation artist
- Angelica Veronica Airola, Baroque painter
- Quirina Alippi-Fabretti, painter
- Topazia Alliata, painter, writer
- Edina Altara, illustrator, decorator and fashion designer
- Giulia Andreani, history painter
- Amalia de Angelis, painter
- Elena Anguissola, painter and nun
- Lucia Anguissola, painter
- Sofonisba Anguissola, Renaissance painter
- Simona Atzori, painter and dancer born without arms
B
- Pippa Bacca, artist
- Bianca Bagnarelli, Italian-French illustrator, writer
- Maria Maddalena Baldacci, painter
- Rosa Barba, installation artist
- Eleonora Bargili, pastellist
- Letizia Battaglia, photographer
- Vanessa Beecroft, contemporary artist
- Aniella di Beltrano, Baroque painter
- Elisabetta Benato-Beltrami, painter, sculptor
- Daniela Benedini, contemporary painter
- Mirella Bentivoglio, sculptor, poet, performance artist
- Laura Bernasconi, Baroque painter
- Rosalba Bernini, pastellist
- Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli, Baroque painter
- Carlotta de Bevilacqua, lighting designer
- Rossella Biscotti, visual artist, video maker
- Ernesta Legnani Bisi, painter and engraver
- Fulvia Bisi, painter
- Rita Boley Bolaffio, collage artist
- Clelia Bompiani, painter
- Monica Bonvicini, sculptor, photographer, video artist, educator
- Giuseppina Quaglia Borghese, painter and pastellist
- Luigia Bozzini, religious painter
- Faustina Bracci Armellini, pastellist
- Antonietta Brandeis , painter
- Nina Breeder, contemporary artist
- Plautilla Bricci, architect, painter
- Eufrasia Burlamacchi, manuscript illuminator
- Angiola Guglielma Butteri, nun, painter
C
- Orsola Maddalena Caccia, nun, religious painter
- Margherita Caffi, flower painter
- Suor Prudenza Cambi, painter and nun
- Milena Canonero, costume designer
- Ginevra Cantofoli, Baroque painter
- Sister Luisa Capomazza, painter
- Benedetta Cappa, futurist artist
- Antonella Cappuccio, costume designer
- Ghitta Carell, Hungarian-born Italian photographer
- Marianna Carlevarijs, painter and pastellist
- Rosalba Carriera, painter
- Maria Vittoria Cassana, painter
- Caterina Amigoni Castellini, pastellist
- Beatrice Catanzaro, conceptual artist
- Catherine of Bologna, nun, artist, saint
- Nicoletta Ceccoli, San Marinian illustrator
- Maria Suppioti Ceroni, pastellist
- Vittoria Chierici, painter
- Caterina Cherubini, miniaturist
- Amalia Ciardi Dupré, sculptor and painter
- Emma Ciardi, painter
- Vittoria Cocito, painter and illustrator
- Marina Cicogna, film producer and photographer
- Barbara Ciardo, comic book colorist
- Maria Giovanna Clementi, portrait painter
- Daniela Comani, multimedia artist
- Theresa Maria Coriolano, engraver
- Maddalena Corvina, painter and engraver
- Liliana Cossovel, painter, collagist
- Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter
- Mariangiola Criscuolo, Renaissance painter
D
- Dadamaino, painter
- Isabella Maria dal Pozzo, painter
- Teodora Danti, painter, writer
- Caterina Davinio, poet, novelist, new media artist
- Elena de' Grimani, comic book artist and illustrator
- Yvonne De Rosa, photographer
- Marianna Candidi Dionigi, painter and writer
- Anna Vittoria Dolara, nun, poet, painter
- Agnese Dolci, painter
- Valentina D'Urbano, writer and illustrator
- Irene Parenti Duclos, painter, poet
- Amalia Ciardi Duprè, sculptor, painter
F
- Adriana Bisi Fabbri, painter
- Orsola Faccioli, painter
- Lucrina Fetti, painter
- Eva Fischer, Croatian-born Italian painter and engraver
- Lavinia Fontana, early professional female painter
- Giovanna Fratellini, Baroque painter
- Virginia von Fürstenberg, fashion designer
G
- Margarita Gabassi, painter
- Anna Galeotti, engraver, painter
- Fede Galizia, pioneering still life Renaissance painter
- Lina Galleazzi, painter
- Giola Gandini, painter
- Giovanna Garzoni, Baroque painter
- Francesca Genna, printmaker
- Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque painter
- Costanza Ghilini, amateur painter and pastellist
- Anna Gili, artist and designer
- Caterina Ginnasi, Baroque painter
- Domiziana Giordano, painter, actress, photographer and video artist
- Sofia Giordano, painter
- Gisella Giovenco, painter and stylist
- Francesca Grilli, visual artist, video maker
- Beatrice Ancillotti Goretti, painter
- Rosina Mantovani Gutti, painter, especially of children
H
- Domitilla Harding, furniture and fashion designer, also works with glass
- Adelita Husni-Bey, visual artist, video maker
I
- Iaia, Roman painter, engraver
- Anna Izzo, contemporary painter, sculptor and designer
K
- Elisabetta Keller, Italian-born Swiss painter and pastellist
- Kiyohara Tama, Japanese painter active in Sicily
- Elisa Koch, painter, pastellist
L
- Giulia Lama, painter
- Luisa Lambri, photographer
- Ketty La Rocca, poet, visual artist
- Carla Lavatelli, portrait painter, abstract sculptor
- Bice Lazzari, painter
- Angelica Le Gru Perotti, painter
- Vittoria Ligari, painter
- Maria Cattarina Locatelli, painter
- Barbara Longhi, painter
M
- Ortensia Poncarale Maggi, painter
- Francesca Magliani, painter
- Lilla Maldura, painter
- Matilde Malenchini, portrait and genre painter
- Ada Mangilli, painter
- Anna Morandi Manzolini, anatomist, wax modeler
- Faustina Maratti, Baroque poet, painter
- Elisabetta Marchioni, Venetian painter
- Clementina Marcovigi, painter
- Virginia Mariani, painter, ceramist
- Maria Martinetti, painter
- Luigia Massari, painter, embroiderer
- Giulia Masucci Fava, painter
- Isabella Discalzi Mazzoni, sculptor
- Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni, painter, sculptor and poet
- Carla Carli Mazzucato, contemporary artist
- Marisa Merz, sculptor
- Giovanna Tacconi Messini, painter
- Madonna Fitta de Milano, painter
- Otonella Mocellin, photographer and video artist
- Tina Modotti, photographer, model and actress
- Maria Molin, pastellist
- Eleonora Monti, painter
- Sandra Moreschi, designer of Jewish ceremonial art
- Emma Moretto, painter
- Marisa Mori, Futurist painter and printmaker
- Laura Mowforth, English abstract painter living in Tuscany since 1997
N
- Olga Napoli, painter
- Maria Giacomina Nazari, painter
- Plautilla Nelli, nun, early female Renaissance painter
- Dianora Niccolini, photographer
- Elena Nobili, figure painter
- Lila De Nobili, stage designer, costume designer and fashion illustrator
- Teresa Boccardi Nuytz, pastellist
O
- Virginia Oldoini, photographer
- Maria Ormani, manuscript illustrator and nun
- Giuseppina Osenga, painter
P
- Arcangela Paladini, painter
- Isabella Parasole, wood engraver
- Luigia Pascoli, painter
- Rosalba Pedrina, painter and teacher
- Itala Pellegrino, painter
- Cinzia Pellin, artist
- Lida Persili, painter
- Anna Bacherini Piattoli, painter
- Fanny Pieroni-Davenport, painter
- Isabella Piccini, engraver
- Sara Pichelli, comics artist
- Margherita Pillini, painter
- Roberta Pinna, contemporary artist
- Ida Pinto-Sezzi, painter
- Laura Piranesi, engraver
- Paola Pivi, multimedia artist
- Teresa del Po, painter
- Amalia Del Ponte, multidisciplinary artist
- Carlotta Ida Popert, German-Italian painter, etcher
- Isabella Maria dal Pozzo, painter
Q
- Lucrezia Quistelli della Mairandola, painter
R
- Rabarama, contemporary artist
- Baroness Annetta Radovska, painter
- Suor Barbara Ragnoni, nun, painter
- Elvira Raimondi, painter
- Carol Rama, painter
- Maria Angelica Razzi, nun, sculptor
- Emma Gaggiotti Richards, painter
- Elisa Rigutini Bulle, painter
- Marietta Robusti, Renaissance painter
- Linda Rocchi, painter
- Francesca Rognoni-Gratognini, landscape painter
- Juana Romani, painter
- Lalla Romano, novelist, poet, painter and journalist
- Paola Romano, painter and sculptor
- Diana de Rosa, painter
- Vicenza Giovanna Rovisi, late Baroque and Neoclassical painter
S
- Marina Sagona, Italian-American artist
- Felicità Sartori, painter and pastellist
- Beatrice Scaccia, painter
- Maria Domenica Scanferla, painter and pastellist
- Teresa Scannabecchi, Baroque painter
- Lucrezia Scarfaglia, painter
- Ida Botti Scifoni, painter, sculptor and designer
- Diana Scultori, engraver
- Marinella Senatore, visual artist
- Floria Sigismondi, Italian-Canadian photographer
- Luisa Silei, landscape painter
- Roberta Silva, Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist
- Nerina Simi, painter, art teacher
- Elisabetta Sirani, Baroque painter
- Violante Beatrice Siries, painter
- Maria Spanò, painter
- Irene di Spilimbergo, Renaissance painter
- Chiara Spinelli, pastellist
- Francesca Stuart Sindici, Spanish-Italian painter
T
- Celeste Tanfani, pastellist
- Margherita Terzi, pastellist
- Caterina Tarabotti, Baroque painter
- Maria Felice Tibaldi, painter
- Grazia Toderi, video artist and photographer
- Lucia Casalini Torelli, painter
- Tatiana Trouvé, contemporary artist
V
- Anna Maria Vaiani, engraver
- Grazia Varisco, visual artist
- Chiara Varotari, Baroque painter
- Claudia Vecchiarelli, German-Italian naive painter
- Virginia Vezzi, painter
- Lella Vignelli, designer
- Lauretta Vinciarelli, artist, architect, educator
- Teresa Berenice Vitelli, painter
W
- Bettina Werner, artist working with salt
Z
- Maria Zacchè, artist specializing in pen and ink drawings
- Gentile Zanardi, Baroque painter
- Silvia Ziche, comic book artist and writer