Angiola Guglielma Butteri

Angiola Guglielma Butteri,[1] also known as Angelica Bottero,[2] was a 17th-century Italian artist and nun.

She entered the convent of Sant’Orsola in Casale, then capital of Monferrato, where she was instructed by Sister Francesca Caccia, daughter of the artist Moncalvo,[1] or by Francesca’s sister Orsola Maddalena Caccia.[2] Among her paintings is a representation of Saints Catherine, Agatha, and Apollonia, which is (or was) in the city’s cathedral.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dizionario geografico, storico, statistico, commerciale degli stati di S.M. il re di Sardegna, ed. by Goffredo Casalis, 28 vols (Turin: G. Maspero, 1833–56), XXVIII (1856), 100–1.
  2. 1 2 ‘Orsola Maddalena Caccia’, in Clara Database of Women Artists, nmwa.org.
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