Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings: Art, Beauty, and Wisdom

Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings: Art, Beauty, and Wisdom
ISBN-10
1527558274
ISBN-13
9781527558274
Category
Art
Pages
318
Language
English
Published
2020-08-18
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
Liana De Girolami Cheney

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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