Lavinia Fontana : trailblazer, rule breaker / Aoife Brady ; with essays by Babette Bohn and Jonquil O'Reilly.

A ground-breaking artist of her time, late sixteenth-century Bolognese artist Fontana is widely considered to be the first woman artist to achieve professional success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Fontana was the first woman to manage her own workshop, and the first woman to paint pu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brady, Aoife (Author)
Bohn, Babette, 1950- (Author)
O'Reilly, Jonquil (Author)
Corporate Author: National Gallery of Ireland (Issuing body, Host institution)
Other Authors: Fontana, Lavinia, 1552-1614 (Artist)
Campbell, Caroline, 1973- (author of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Dublin : National Gallery of Ireland, [2023]
Subjects:
Fontana, Lavinia, > 1552-1614 > Exhibitions.
Fontana, Lavinia, > 1552-1614.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, plans ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • Lavinia Fontana and Bolognese material culture / Babette Bohn
  • Lavinia Fontana : the workshop of a woman artist / Aoife Brady
  • Styling the Bolognese elite : fashion in the portraits of Lavinia Fontana / Jonquil O'Reilly
  • Fontana and men
  • Fontana and women
  • Fontana and children
  • Allegory and myth
  • The crowning glory.