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        <h1 class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Lavinia Fontana (1552 – 1614)</h1>
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_SelfPortrait1577.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Self-Portrait 1577</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Lavinia Fontana was an Italian painter. Fontana was the daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana, who was a leading painter of the School of Bologna at the time and served as her teacher. Continuing the family business was typical at the time.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_PortraitOfANobleWoman1580.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of a Noble Woman 1580</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Her earliest known work, “Child of the Monkey”, was painted in 1575 at the age of 23. Though this work is now lost, another early painting, Christ with the Symbols of the Passion, painted in 1576 is now in the El Paso Museum of Art. She would go on to paint in a variety of genres. Early in her career, she was most famous for painting upper-class residents of her native Bologna. She also created paintings of male and female nudes and large scale religious paintings.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_PortraitofAGirlCoveredInHair.jpeg" alt="art"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of a Girl Covered in Hair</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Fontana married Paolo Zappi (alternately spelled Paolo Fappi) in 1577. She gave birth to 11 children, though only 3 outlived her. After marriage, Fontana continued to paint to support her family. Zappi took care of the household and served as painting assistant to his wife, including painting minor elements of paintings like draperies.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_JesusAppearsToMaryMagdelen.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 1581</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Fontana and her family moved to Rome in 1603 at the invitation of Pope Clement VII. She gained the patronage of the Buoncampagni, of which Pope Gregory XIII was a member. Lavinia thrived in Rome as she had in Bologna and Pope Paul V himself was among her sitters. She died in Rome on August 11, 1614.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_JudithAndHolofernes.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Judith and Holofernes</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Some of her portraits, often lavishly paid for, have been wrongly attributed to Guido. Chief among these are Venus; The Virgin lifting a veil from the sleeping infant Christ; and the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. Her self-portrait – in youth she was said to have been very beautiful – was perhaps her masterpiece; it belongs to Count Zappi of Imola, the family into which Lavinia married.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_FamilyPortrait.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Family Portrait</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">While her youthful style was much like her father’s, she gradually adopted the Carracciesque style, with strong quasi-Venetian coloring. She was elected into the Academy of Rome, and died there in 1614.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">There are over 100 works that are documented from early sources, but only 32 signed and dated works are known today. There are 25 more that can be attributed to her, making hers the largest oeuvre for any female artist prior to 1700. Sofonisba Anguissola may have been an influence on her career.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_PortraitOfAGirl1580.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of a Girl 1580</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Partial List of Works</p>
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        <li>Self-Portrait with the Spinet Accompanied by a Handmaiden (1577, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome)</li>
        <li>Consecration to the Virgin, (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, originally the Gnetti Chapel, Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna)</li>
        <li>Portrait of a Lady with Lap Dog, (ca. 1595, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)</li>
        <li>Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale (ca. 1587-90, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)</li>
        <li>Noli me tangere, (1581, Uffizi, Florence)</li>
        <li>Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Peter Chrysologus, and Cassian, (1584, Palazzo Comunale de Imola)</li>
        <li>Portrait of the Coozzadini Family, (1584, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)</li>
        <li>Holy Family, (1589, El Escorial, Outside Madrid)</li>
        <li>Birth of Virgin, (Santissima Trinita, Bologna)</li>
        <li>Portrait of a Couple, (1580-1585, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland)</li>
        <li>Deposition, 1581, Cornell Fine Arts</li>
        <li>Jesus among the Doctors , part of the Mystries of the Rosary in the Rosary chapel in the Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna</li>
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/fontana_la/Fontana_MinervaDressing.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Minerva Dressing 1613</div>
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