There are five self-portraits byLaviniaFontana that are known: four paintings and one drawing. I would like to examine two of these self-portraits, including my own ideas with those that have been previously presented by Catherine King and Babette Bohn.1I think these two portraits are quite r...
the Jesuits and by Bishop Gabriele Paleotti, the women were also involved in commissioning Fontana's religious paintings and alterpieces for Bolognese churches; these works show the way her art was stimulated by the post-Tridentine promotion of the use of images in religious instruction and ...
it’s more of a religious comment rather than a modern, “gender studies”, comment as people immagine nowadays : the cross on her neck shows that Fontana, the pope’s painter, is a faithful Catholic women, while the position and shape of the two statues, one of a almost naked man ...
Lavinia Fontana was an Italian painter of the Mannerist school and one of the most important portraitists in Bologna during the late 16th century. She was one of the first women to execute large, publicly commissioned figure paintings. Fontana studied wi