Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings: Art, Beauty, and Wisdom
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| Title: | Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings: Art, Beauty, and Wisdom |
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| 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. |
| Authors: | Liana De Girolami Cheney, Author |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Women painters--Italy--Bologna--16th century, Women in art, Art and mythology, Painting--Italy--Bologna--16th century, Painting, Renaissance--Italy--Bologna |
| Categories: | ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781527557000 9781527558274 |
