About this title: Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana was a significant and prolific woman artist of Renaissance Europe. Her large and renowned body of work encompasses several genres, including altarpieces, history paintings, and portraits. This is an illustrated, comprehensive study of Fontana. Art historian Caroline Murphy assesses the relation of Fontana's native city Bologna to the artist's work and career, proposing that the unique attributes of the city, its religious and social climate and the citizens who became Fontana's patrons contributed importantly to her success as an artist. The text discusses ...
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