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

“A trailblazer and rule breaker? That is certainly my opinion of Lavinia Fontana,” says Dr Aoife Brady, the NGI’s Curator of Italian and Spanish Art. Dr Aoife Brady, Curator, National ...

“That’s what happened with Philippe Costamagna, whose eye is so well trained that he can recognize an artist’s signature ... Servant is now attributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the first ...

A family portrait by pioneering Italian Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana has finally landed ... is now the museum’s oldest work by a female artist, second only to Marie-Guillemine Benoist ...

A miniature portrait of an Italian noblewoman, long believed to be by Bronzino, has been reattributed to pioneering 16th-century artist Lavinia Fontana. An Italian Mannerist painter, Fontana was ...

Certainly The Gozzadini Family, in Lavinia Fontana’s breathtaking ... intrigue and bad faith skilfully incorporated into a painting once thoughtlessly dismissed as “an image of two ...

One of Europe’s first professional women artists, the Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana was known ... by Japan’s National Museum of Western Art from Rob Smeets Old Master Paintings.