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Lavinia Fontana : a painter and her patrons in sixteenth-century Bologna /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Caroline, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Fontana, Lavinia, > 1552-1614.
Nobility > Italy > Bologna > Art patronage.
Women in the professions > Italy > Bologna > History > 16th century.
Women artists > Italy > Bologna > History > 16th century.
Bologna (Italy) > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Art and society in sixteenth-century Bologna
  • The making of a woman artist
  • Pictures for scholars, prelates, poets and Bankers
  • 'Gentildame et honeste matrone' : representing the Bolognese noblewoman
  • Laudomia Gozzadini and her family portrait
  • 'La vita vedovile' : the art of widowhood
  • Painting for the children of Bologna.