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Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings
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Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings

Art, Beauty, and Wisdom
By: Liana De Girolami Cheney

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This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.

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…
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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.

Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD, is an Emerita Professor in Art History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Visiting Scholar in Art History at the Università di Aldo Moro, Italy, and Investigadora de Historia de Arte at the Universidad de Coruña, Spain. She received her MA in History of Art and Aesthetics from the University of Miami, Florida, and her PhD in Italian Renaissance and Baroque from Boston University, Massachusetts. She is a Renaissance and Mannerist scholar and is the author and co-author of numerous articles and books, including Botticelli’s Neoplatonism in His Mythological Paintings; Giorgio Vasari’s Teachers: Sacred and Profane Love; Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The Magic Paintings; Readings in Italian Mannerism I and II; Giorgio Vasari’s Art and Art Theory; and Giorgio Vasari’s Artistic and Emblematic Manifestations, among others.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-5700-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-5700-0
  • Date of Publication: 2020-09-14

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-0332-7
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0332-4
  • Date of Publication: 2024-03-27

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-5827-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-5827-4
  • Date of Publication: 2024-03-27
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  • BIC: AGB, JFSJ1, JFC
  • THEMA: AGB, JBSF1, JBCC
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  • Not a light read, Cheney’s book rewards the reader who seeks deep knowledge of the intellectual realm of Fontana’s period and her erudition. The dense text might best be used as a series of essays to be delved into and excavated as needed by the scholar."
    - Eve Straussman-Pflanzer Curator and Head of Italian and Spanish Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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