Soh-Lah Informative Speech

I did my speech on Soh-foh-NEEZ-bah Ahn-gwee-SOH-lah. She was one of the most accomplished artists of the Renaissance period. Not only that, but she was an extremely accomplished FEMALE artist, competing in a mostly male dominated world. Thats one thing that's quite significant about her, at least, in my opinion. She was born in Cre-Moe-Nah, Italy and lived from about 1532 to 1625. Nobody knows exactly when her birthday was, but it is speculated that she was about 92 or maybe 93 years old. That's very much older that many people lived in that time frame. Anyway, what she was mostly known for was her amazing paintings. Growing up, she was taught by many impressive and famous instructors, so she loved to paint, and she knew what she was doing.

She ever so slowly gained a reputation in the art world from her astounding paintings. She painted for many different Dukes and Kings, and other famous and extremely rich people. She even got to paint for and meet Michelangelo at one point, which I thought was pretty cool. After meeting Michelangelo, word of her, and more specifically, her skills, traveled the globe. She was actually considered to of been using the same style of Michelangelo and Titain, and be sort of a contemporary of them. Towards the end of her life she tutored many future painters. And, by being one of the best, she inspired many female artists to be just like her, which was another contribution of her. She also painted a piece for a Queen that was widely copied and even envied by many famous male painters. She eventually overcame the barriers of being a women at that time, and gained much respect from male painters. At the time of her death, she had over 20 well known paintings that have survived to today. Ones that didn’t survive were mostly all religious paintings.On the other hand, almost all the surviving masterpieces were self portraits of herself alone, her painting or her depicting a scene with