Lavinia Fontana
Also known as Lavigna Fontana, Fontana, L. Fontana, Vigna Fontana, Livia Fontana, Zappi Fontana, Lavinia Fontana Zappi, Lavinia Zappi
Italian painter (1552–1614)
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Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552 – 11 August 1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She was trained by her father, Prospero Fontana. She is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe, as she relied on commissions for her income. Her family relied on her career as a painter, and her husband served as her agent and raised their 11 children. She was perhaps the first female artist to paint female nudes, but this is a topic of controversy among art historians.
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1552 births1614 deaths16th-century Italian painters16th-century Italian women painters17th-century Italian painters17th-century Italian women paintersArtists from the Papal StatesCatholic paintersCatholic women artistsCommons link is locally definedItalian Mannerist paintersItalian portrait painters