Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings

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Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings is written by Liana De Girolami Cheney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527558274 (ISBN 10) and 9781527558274 (ISBN 13).

This volume investigates emblematic and art-historical issues in Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. Fontana is the first female painter of the sixteenth century in Italy to depict female nudes, as well as mythological and emblematic paintings associated with concepts of beauty and wisdom. Her paintings reveal an appropriation of the antique, a fusion between patronage and culture, and a humanistic pursuit of Mannerist conceits. Fontana’s secular imagery provides a challenging paragone with the male tradition of history painting during the sixteenth century and paves the way for new subjects to be depicted and interpreted by female painters of the seventeenth century.