Lavinia Fontana's mythological paintings
art, beauty, and wisdom
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Author
Publication
2020 - Cambridge Scholars Publisher, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Language
English
Word Count
52,250 words, Guess
Page Count
209 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL60292194M
- ISBN-139781527557000
- ISBN-101527557006
- OCLC Control Number1190858752
Classifications
- DDC759.5
- LCCND623.F595 C44 2020
Description
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.
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