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Lavinia Fontana

Lavigna Fontana

Italian painter (1552–1614).

External Pages About Lavinia Fontana

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Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID

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MutualArt artist ID

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Google Arts & Culture entity ID

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Statements about Lavinia Fontana

Sex or Gender

Female

Place of Birth

Bologna
Country
:
Papal States

Place of Death

Rome
Country
:
Papal States

Date of Birth

9/3/1552
Sourcing Circumstances
:
Circa

Date of Death

8/11/1614

Instance Of

Human

Occupation

Painter
Architectural Draftsperson
Artist
Portraitist

Family Name

Fontana

Image

Genre

Portrait Painting
Religious Art
Portrait

Given Name

Lavinia
Series Ordinal
:1

Described by Source

12 items
Women Painters of the World
Section
:Fontana, Lavinia
Great Women Masters of Art
Page(s)
:49
Invisible Women
Section
:Lavinia Fontana
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Q24510559
A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography
Women in the Fine Arts, From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.
Concise Dictionary of Women Artists
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition
A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country
Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna
Page(s)
:226-227
Subject Named As
:Fontana Zappi, Lavinia
By Her Hand : Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800
Notizie De' Professori Del Disegno Cioè Pittori, Scultori E Architetti Bolognesi E Forestieri Di Sua Scuola
Page(s)
:9
Subject Named As
:Fontana Lavinia
Volume
:B 124/II
Author
:
Marcello Oretti

Work Location

Bologna
(1579 - 1601)
Start Time
: 1579
End Time
: 1601
Rome
(1600 - 1614)
Start Time
: 1600
End Time
: 1614

Has Works in the Collection

39 items
Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki
Saragossa Museum
Uffizi Gallery
Walters Art Museum
Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Bordeaux
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museo Di Capodimonte
Hermitage Museum
Pinacoteca Nazionale Di Bologna
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Rollins Museum of Art
National Gallery of Ireland
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
National Museum in Kraków
Vasari Corridor
Accademia Di San Luca
Musée Des Beaux-Arts Et D'Archéologie De Besançon
Davia Bargellini Museum
Walker Art Gallery
Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Rouen
Hepworth Wakefield
Museo Di San Giuseppe
J. Paul Getty Museum
Galleria Borghese
Musée Thomas-Henry
Palazzo Tozzoni
St. Dominic Museum
Bastia Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Musée De La Chartreuse De Douai
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Villa Medici
Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Marseille
Musée Antoine Vivenel
El Paso Museum of Art
National Gallery of Victoria
Galleria Spada

Field of Work

Art of Painting

Number of Children

11

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

Italian

Name in Native Language

Lavinia Fontana

Pseudonym

Zappi, Lavinia

Father

Prospero Fontana

Spouse

Start of Work Period

1575

Depicted By

Place of Burial

Santa Maria Sopra Minerva

Award Received

Honorary Member
Conferred By
:
Accademia Di San Luca
Age of Subject at Event
: 50 years old

Notable Work

Adoration of the Shepherds
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Altarpiece Painter
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Fontana, Lavinia
Gian Paolo Zappi
(2/24/1577 - )
Start Time
: 2/24/1577
Self-Portrait
Statement Is Subject Of
:
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Fontana, Lavinia