Conference "sofonisba anguissola, the elegant dissident" by rocío garin
The Culture Department is organizing a talk about Sofonisba Anguissola, considered the first successful female painter of the Renaissance.
The lecture will be given by Rocío Garín, a professor at the Municipal Drawing and Painting Workshop.
It will take place on Tuesday 11 March at 7.30pm at the Biblioteca de Culturas Contemporáneas. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.
Estepona Town Hall informs that next Tuesday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., the lecture 'Sofonisba Anguissola, the elegant dissident' will be given in the Library of Contemporary Cultures of Mirador del Carmen, by the professor of the Drawing and Painting Workshop of the municipal delegation of Culture, Rocío Garín.
The speaker will discuss the figure of the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola (Cremona, c.?1535-Palermo, November 16, 1625), considered the first successful female painter of the Renaissance. She cultivated portraiture and self-portrait, establishing new rules in the field of female portraiture. Her career was a precedent for several female artists who had been excluded from academic teaching, guilds and workshops and papal patronage, but who did find support in the European courts between the 16th and 18th centuries.
The event, with free admission until full capacity is reached, is open to the public of all ages and aims to promote interest in the visual arts. It is also part of the programme of events to mark International Women's Day.
Rocío Garín . Since she was very young, the Estepona artist Rocío Garín (1977) has enjoyed “drawing and painting”, a passion that led her to study at the School of Arts and Crafts in Algeciras and, later, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, where she graduated in 2001. She quickly began working as a restorer of some of Seville's most significant monuments, as well as the facades of churches in the Andalusian capital.
Since her return to Estepona in 2002, she has been teaching drawing and painting, an activity that she combines with three aspects of her artistic career: as a researcher, as an artist and as a teacher. She has developed different teaching methods.
In 2013 he published a “Drawing and Painting Manual” which includes the main techniques and tools to be taken into account in the first year of student training.