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Biography

Lavinia Fontana was the daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana, who was a leading painter of the School of Bologna at the time and served as her teacher. Continuing the family business was typical at the time. Prospero Fontana (1512 - 1597) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance Fontana was born in Bologna, and became a pupil of Innocenzo da Imola. ... The Bolognese School of painting flourished in Bologna, Italy between the 16th and 17th centuries and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting. ...

Lavinia Fontana, Minerva Dressing, 1613, Oil on canvas, Galleria Borghese, Rome.

Her earliest known work, "Child of the Monkey", was painted in 1575 at the age of 23. Though this work is now lost, another early painting, Christ with the Symbols of the Passion, painted in 1576 is now in the El Paso Museum of Art.[1] She would go on to paint in a variety of genres. Early in her career, she was most famous for painting upper-class residents of her native Bologna. She also created paintings of male and female nudes and large scale religious paintings. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x1038, 108 KB) Lavinia Fontana: Minerva Dressing, 1613 Oil on canvas Gallery: Galleria Borghese, Rome Source: Web Gallery of Art File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lavinia... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x1038, 108 KB) Lavinia Fontana: Minerva Dressing, 1613 Oil on canvas Gallery: Galleria Borghese, Rome Source: Web Gallery of Art File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lavinia... Head of Minerva by Elihu Vedder, 1896 For other uses, see Minerva (disambiguation). ... The Villa Borghese Pinciana (begun 1605) houses the Galleria Borghese. ... Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Emiliano-Romagnolo) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly between the Reno River and the Sàvena River. ...

Fontana married Paolo Zappi (alternately spelled Paolo Fappi) in 1577. She gave birth to 11 children, though only 3 outlived her. After marriage, Fontana continued to paint to support her family. Zappi took care of the household and served as painting assistant to his wife, including painting minor elements of paintings like draperies.

Fontana and her family moved to Rome in 1603 at the invitation of Pope Clement VII. She gained the patronage of the Buoncampagni, of which Pope Gregory XIII was a member. Lavinia thrived in Rome as she had in Bologna and Pope Paul V himself was among her sitters. She died in Rome on August 11, 1614. Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... For the antipope (1378–1394) see antipope Clement VII and other Popes named Clement see Pope Clement. ... Gregory XIII, born Ugo Boncompagni (January 7, 1502 – April 10, 1585) was pope from 1572 to 1585. ... Paul V, né Camillo Borghese (Rome, September 17, 1552 – January 28, 1621) was Pope from May 16, 1605 until his death. ...

Some of her portraits, often lavishly paid for, have been wrongly attributed to Guido. Chief among these are Venus; The Virgin lifting a veil from the sleeping infant Christ; and the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. Her self-portrait – in youth she was said to have been very beautiful – was perhaps her masterpiece; it belongs to Count Zappi of Imola, the family into which Lavinia married. Look up Guido in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Adjectives: Venusian or (rarely) Cytherean Atmosphere Surface pressure: 9. ... Depiction of the Queen of Sheba arriving in Israel. ... King Solomon Latin name (Hebrew: שְׁלֹמֹה, (Shelomo) (Shlomo pronounced with Yiddish accent)Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: سليمان, Sulayman; all essentially meaning peace) is a figure described in Middle Eastern scriptures as a wise ruler of an empire centred on the united Kingdom of Israel. ...

While her youthful style was much like her father's, she gradually adopted the Carracciesque style, with strong quasi-Venetian coloring. She was elected into the Academy of Rome, and died there in 1614. There are several people with the name Carracci. ...

There are over 100 works that are documented from early sources, but only 32 signed and dated works are known today. There are 25 more that can be attributed to her, making hers the largest oeuvre for any female artist prior to 1700. Sofonisba Anguissola may have been an influence on her career. Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait, 1554. ...

Partial List of Works

• Self-Portrait with the Spinet Accompanied by a Handmaiden (1577, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome)
• Consecration to the Virgin, (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, originally the Gnetti Chapel, Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna)
• Portrait of a Lady with Lap Dog, (ca. 1595, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
• Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale (ca. 1587-90, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
• Noli me tangere, (1581, Uffizi, Florence)
• Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Peter Chrysologus, and Cassian, (1584, Palazzo Comunale de Imola)
• Portrait of the Coozzadini Family, (1584, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)
• Holy Family, (1589, El Escorial, Outside Madrid)
• Birth of Virgin, (Santissima Trinita, Bologna)
• Portrait of a Couple, (1580-1585, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland)
• Deposition, 1581, Cornell Fine Arts [2]
• Jesus among the Doctors , part of the Mystries of the Rosary in the Rosary chapel in the Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• The Italian Renaissance}}, ed. Paula Findlen, ISBN 0-631-22283-9
• Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, ed. Delia Gaze
• Chadwick, Whitney, Women, Art, and Society, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990
• Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976
• Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 132-36. 
• Murphy, C.P., Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and HerPatrons in Sixteenth-century Bologna, New Haven and London, 2003
• Hansen, Morten Steen and Joaneath Spicer, eds., Masterpieces of Italian Painting, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore and London, 2005.