Elisabetta Zangrandi at Keyes Art, Sag Harbor

A self-taught artist who paints visionary landscapes inhabited by flora and fauna, Elisabetta Zangrandi made her way into the international art world from her home in the Italian countryside via Instagram in 2017. From that point on, her life as a painter blossomed.

For the exhibition, “Musée Imaginaire,” curated by the talented Alison M. Gingeras, Zangrandi has painted 15 fascinating portraits of famous female artists from across the ages. Ranging from the 12th-century German nun and illuminator Guda, who was one of the first women to depict her own image in a manuscript, to the artist Alice Neel, one of America’s greatest portrait painters of the 20th century, the Italian artist has interpreted each of the past artists’ self-portraits in her charming, naïve, imaginative style.