Giovanna Garzoni (1600 – 1670)

• Was an Italian Baroque painter.
• She began her career painting religious subjects but gained fame for her still life botanical subjects painted in tempera and watercolour.
• Giovanna Garzoni was born in 1600 in Ascoli Piceno.
• Garzoni's first known commission was in Rome, it was in 1616, from the chemist Giovanni Vorvino to paint a herbarium.
• Garzoni visited the Medici court in Florence sometime between 1618 and 1620, where she probably encountered Artemisia Gentileschi.
• Four years later in 1620 Garzoni arrived in Venice and painted a Saint Andrew for the Venetian Church of the Ospedale degli Incurabili.
• Garzoni and her brother Mattio left Venice in 1630 for Naples where she worked for the Spanish viceroy, the Duke of Alcalá.
• Garzoni reached Turin in 1632  to work there for Christina of France`s, and lived there until 1637.
• A few years later in 1640, Garzoni arrived in Paris and stayed there until 1642 when she went to Rome.
• Garzoni traveled back and forth from Rome to Florence until 1651.
• After serving the Medici Court, Garzoni decided to settle in Rome in 1651 where she worked work for the Florentine Court.

• Garzoni attended the Accademia di San Luca.

• She was often called the Chaste Giovanna due to her vow to remain a Virgin.

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