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Italian artist (1552–1614)

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Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552–11 August 1614) was an ItalianMannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting.

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She was trained by her father, Prospero Fontana. She is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe, as she relied on commissions for her income.^[1][2] Her family relied on her career as a painter, and her husband served as her agent and raised their 11 children.^[3] She was perhaps the first female artist to paint female nudes, but this is a topic of controversy among art historians.^[4]

Biography

Education and career in Bologna

Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna in 1552^[5] to Antonia de' Bonardis and Prospero Fontana.

She was baptized on 24 August 1552, at the cathedral of San Pietro.^{[6& 1119) Lavinia Fontana - The Exasperated Historian KAQ}