Lavinia Fontana, “Self-portrait at the Clavichord with a Servant” (1577), oil on canvas, 10 3/5 x 9 4/9 inches, held at the Accademia di San Luca, Rome (image via Wikimedia Commons) ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

Museums & Institutions A Lavinia Fontana Portrait Enters a Museum Collection After 400 Years in Private Hands. The work is the first Fontana family portrait to be acquired by a West Coast institution.

Of the 30 or so paintings that can be firmly attributed to the pioneering female Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), the biggest and most ambitious resides at the National Gallery of ...

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) is widely considered the first woman in Western art history to be a professional artist. Although others before her were ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) was the daughter of a painter in Bologna. Sofonisba Anguissola (around 1532–1625) was born into an aristocratic family—albeit a financially squeezed one—from ...

Sofonisba Anguissola (1535-1625) and Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) are two artists I didn’t know. They didn’t know each other, either. Both were Italian, Anguissola the daughter of a Cremonese ...

For the first time the Prado Museum exhibits works by Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, both 16th-century painters, Spanish artist Anguissola with the c ...

The NGV is already celebrated for its brilliant collection of old master paintings. Now, it has added a remarkable work to its holdings with Lavinia Fontana’s Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (c. 1575) ...

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), said to be the first female European painter to achieve professional and commercial success beyond the confines of a court or convent, was born in Bologna in 1552 into ...

Lavinia Fontana, who was born in Bologna but died in Rome, grew up in a scholarly environment and was taught to paint by her father Prospero Fontana. As a trailblazing woman painter, ...