Giovanna Garzoni 1600-1670 Botanical Painting

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Plate of Plums with Jasmine and Nuts

Giovanna Garzoni was an Italian painter of the Baroque era. She was unusual for Italian artists of the time because she was a women who painted portrait miniatures for her aristocratic patrons in Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, & Turin; but her favorite subject was accurate botanical depiction of luscious still-lifes of fruits, vegetables, & flowers - botany. In 1666, Garzoni bequeathed her entire estate to the Roman painters' guild the Accademia di San Luca, on condition that they build her tomb in their church of Santi Luca e Martina. 
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Chinese Bowl with Cherries
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Chinese Bowl with Figs, Cherries, and a Bird
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Figs
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670)

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Plate of Asparagus with Carnations and a Grasshopper
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) A Bowl of Broad Beans 1661-2

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Bowl of Citrons 1640
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Still Life with Sugar Snap Peas and Pink Roses 1640

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Still life with a melon
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Plate of Figs 1652
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Chinese Vase of Flowers with a Fig and a Bean

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Still Life

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Vase

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Cherries and Carnations

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Vase

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Still Life with mouse

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1600-1670) Vase