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          She was the first Bolognese female to earn renown throughout Italy....

          Lavinia Fontana

          Italian artist (1552–1614)

          For the racehorse, see Lavinia Fontana (horse).

          Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552–11 August 1614) was an ItalianMannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome.

          Stimulus to the study of her work.

        1. Stimulus to the study of her work.
        2. Lavinia Fontana was trained by her father, Prospero, and Ludovico Carracci in Bologna.
        3. She was the first Bolognese female to earn renown throughout Italy.
        4. Lavinia Fontana () the first professional female painter in the Italian history of art.
        5. Artistic opinion between East and West.

          6. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. 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&