Portrait of Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola

Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
ArtistSofonisba Anguissola
Yearlate 1550s
Mediumoil on canvas
LocationPinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola is an oil on canvas double portrait from the late 1550s by Sofonisba Anguissola, in which she depicts herself being painted by her teacher, Bernadino Campi. Whitney Chadwick has called this "the first historical example of the woman artist consciously collapsing the subject-object position." Mary Garrard has noted that this is an important example of what Giorgio Vasari termed a "breathing likeness."