Antonia di Paolo di Dono (1456–1491) was the daughter of Paolo di Dono, nicknamed Uccello, a well-known early Renaissance Florentine painter. Giorgio Vasari's biography of Uccello states that he had "a daughter who knew how to draw."[1] Antonia was recorded in the Libro dei Morti (Book of the Dead) of the painter's guild, Arte dei Medici e Speziali, as a "pittoressa."[2] This was the first time the feminine form of the word "painter" appears in Florentine public records and the first formal recognition of a fifteenth-century woman artist.
- ^ Vasari, Giorgio (1550). Le Vite de'Piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori ed Architettori, I, ed. P. Barocchi , Florence: Sansoni, p. 72
- ^ "Archived copy". tlion.sns.it. Archived from the original on 2018-12-26. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
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