Fede Galizia (c. 1578 – c. 1630)

• Was an Italian painter.
• She is especially noted as a painter of still-lifes of fruit.
• Fede Galizia was born in Milan.
• Her father, Nunzio Galizia, was also a painter of miniatures. 
• Fede (whose name means "faith") learned painting and likely also engraving from him.
• At a young age, Galizia was already an established portrait painter handling many commissioned works.

• Several of her paintings based on the deuterocanonical story of Judith and Holofernes.

• She also created miniatures and altarpieces for convents.

• Galizia never married or had any children, instead leaving her life items to a cousin, Anna Galizia, and a nephew, Carlo Henrico.

• On June 21, 1630, she made her will, and is thought to have died of the plague in Milan shortly afterward.

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