It must have taken many hands to rush the Bolognese Mannerist artist Lavinia Fontana’s most ambitious extant painting, a nearly 10-foot-long canvas from 1599, out of a burning building during the ...

Lavinia Fontana, "Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait" (c. 1592–1604), 44 x 34 5/8 inches, held in private collection (image via Wikimedia Commons) Possibly because of the absence ...

They were famous in their day, but the female Renaissance artists Lavinia Fontana (1535–1625) and Sofonisba Anguissola (1552–1614) quickly slipped into obscurity. The latter’s paintings have been ...

The new European Art Gallery at the National Museum in Kraków invites visitors to embark on a captivating journey through eight centuries of creativity, beauty, and history. The Fine Arts Museums of ...

Portrait of a Gentleman, His Daughter and a Servant at the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, France Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP via Getty Images Imagine walking down a street and running into a childhood ...

The exhibition will reveal the artistic personality of two of the most outstanding women artists in western art. Through a total of 60 works and for the first time, the Museo del Prado will jointly ...

Hawes (Rosey in the Present Tense) pens an entertaining, at times moving novel inspired by the 16th-century Italian artist Lavinia Fontana. Set in Bologna, the story centers on 14-year-old Vini, the ...

A spread of pages from Emanuele Lugli’s children’s art history book “Lavinia’s Wondrous Portraits,” showing illustrations by Chiara Palillo. Courtesy Emanuele Lugli. There was a time when a popular ...

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In November 2025 the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw will open The Woman Question: 1550– 2025, prepared by the distinguished curator and art historian Alison M. Gingeras. A few years after art ...