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Sirani likely received her initial training from her father, Giovanni Andrea Sirani, who was principal assistant in the workshop of Guido Reni. By the age of twenty, however, she was head of her own workshop and was later the first woman to found an academy of design for female artists. Sirani enjoyed enormous success, forging a prolific career as a painter and draftsman and becoming one of the the most celebrated Bolognese artists of the mid-seventeenth century. After her early death in 1665, the entire city of Bologna went into mourning and arranged a magnificent funeral; as a final tribute, she was buried next to Guido Reni.
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