Ida Botti Scifoni
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Ida Botti was born in Rome on 7 November 1812. She was raised in a middle-class family and excelled at an early age not only in painting portraits, which was socially accepted for a female painter, but also in painting more "masculine" historical and religious subjects.[1]
Ida married Felice Scifoni, a notary, writer, and a member of the Carbonari, a secret revolutionary society committed to the unification of Italy. His political activities led to his arrest and subsequent exile after the Romagna Insurrection in 1831.[2]
She died in Florence on 13 June 1844.[2]
