In 2024, a 16th-century painting by Lavinia Fontana was rediscovered in the vaults of the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, after being misattributed for over 150 years. The Chartreuse de Douai Museum ...

A small museum in northern France has announced the surprise discovery of a new masterpiece by Lavinia Fontana ... the attention of 16th-century Italian art specialist Philippe Costamagna ...

Last year, Bonnaure’s museum called on experts like Costamagna, who specializes in Florentine and Roman art, as part of ... it belongs to the oeuvre of Lavinia Fontana, a Renaissance painter ...

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 ...