Lavinia Fontana

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Trailblazer, Rule Breaker

By Aoife Brady

Summary

Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker delves into the life of Lavinia Fontana, the first woman artist in Western Europe to achieve commercial success outside court or convent settings. The biography contextualises her career within the cultural climate of Renaissance Italy, highlighting her renowned portraiture and revealing lesser-known aspects such as her workshop practice. Through stories of family bonds, rivalries, marriages, and losses, the book paints a vivid picture of her world and artistic challenges.
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Ideal for readers interested in Renaissance art, women's history, and biographies of pioneering figures in the arts. Suitable for art historians, students, and general readers seeking inspiration from a rule-breaking female artist's life and career.

The first monograph to examine Lavinia Fontana’s work in over two decades, and the first to focus on her striking portraits

Description

Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker explores this female Renaissance artist’s fascinating biography and the cultural climate that enabled her to become the first woman artist in Western Europe to gain commercial success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Bringing together several strands of scholarship on Fontana and her contemporaries, it provides context to her career and examines areas underrepresented in current scholarship on the painter, including information on her workshop practice.

Focusing on the portraiture for which she was renowned, Lavinia Fontana tells stories that will be universally familiar—tales of family bonds, sibling rivalries, engagements, weddings, births, and deaths. Written by Aoife Brady, with contributions from one of the leading scholars on Fontana, Babette Bohn, and a foremost expert on Renaissance fashion, Jonquil O’Reilly, this engaging book explores Fontana’s world and how she forged a successful career in the male-dominated world of Renaissance Italy.

Exhibition Schedule:
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
(May 6–August 27, 2023)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781911716006

Publisher: National Gallery of Ireland

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 May 2023

Country: Ireland

Imprint: National Gallery of Ireland

Illustration: 120 color illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Babette Bohn
Contributions by Jonquil O’Reilly

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 225.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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Aoife Brady Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Musicians, Movie Stars & Creative Biographies Non-Fiction

About the Author

Aoife Brady is curator of Italian and Spanish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland. Babette Bohn is professor emerita of Texas Christian University. Jonquil O’Reilly is an Old Masters specialist at Christies, New York.