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 * The Chess Game**

Sofonista Anguilssola 's //The Chess Game// was a painting that definitely showed the idea of Humanism, an ideal that highlighted human beings’ achievements, capabilities and interests. The game of Chess is a human activity or hobby in which, one uses human intellect to devise a strategy in order to defeat their opponent. Using the game of chess, the artist emphasized the power of the human brain, and its ability to think. The painting showed human interest, because Chess is a miniature version of war; and war is a very worldly, secular subject. When a game of Chess is won, it exhibits human achievements and capability, the third aspect to Humanism which showed accomplishments from using human intelligence and acumen.

Ilya Sandra Perlingieri, //Sofonisba Anguissola//, Rizzoli International, 1992 [|ISBN 0-8478-1544-7] Chadwick, Whitney, //Women, Art, and Society,// Thames and Hudson, London, 1990 [|ISBN 0-500-20354-7] Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, //Women Artists: 1550-1950//, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976 [|ISBN 0-394-41169-2] Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Maria Kusche, //Sofonisba Anguissola: A Renaissance Woman//,National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1995 [|ISBN 0-940979-31-4] Pizzagalli, Daniela //La signora della pittura : vita di Sofonisba Anguissola, gentildonna e artista nel Rinascimento//, Milano 2003 [|ISBN 8817995096]