Background
She was born in Urbino, the daughter of the jurisconsult Luigi Alippi and mother Elvira Boddi. She followed her father to Perugia in 1874, where he had been transferred to be part of the Court of Appeals.
She was born in Urbino, the daughter of the jurisconsult Luigi Alippi and mother Elvira Boddi. She followed her father to Perugia in 1874, where he had been transferred to be part of the Court of Appeals.
She studied drawing and painting in Rome with Nicola Ortis and Guglielmo De Sanctis.
There she continued her study under Francesco Moretti. She was respected as a copyist, painting a copy of Perugino"s " Presepio" for a church in Mount Lebanon, Syria. She painted a Saint Stephen for the same church.
In 1884, in Turin, she painted an interior vedute of the "Great Hall of the Exchange of Perugia".
She painted interior views of the church of San Giovanni del Cambio in Perugia, and of the vestibule of the Confraternity of Street Francis. In addition to her portraits, she painted an "Odalisque", an "Old Woman Fortune-teller", and a "Street.Catherine".
She was awarded a silver medal at a competition in Perugia in December 16, 1879. She became an honorary member of the Royal Academy in Urbino and of the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia.