Lavinia Fontana

1552 – 1614

Italian woman painter, daughter and pupil of Prospero Fontana. She began her career in Bologna. She painted portraits and religious pictures, her earliest recorded work being the Holy Family of 1525 (Dresden).

18 artworks in collection

Locations

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Works

15771613

Museum

Self-Portrait at the Spinet

Accademia di San Luca, Rome1577

Self-Portrait in a Studio

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence1579

Portrait of a Noblewoman

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington1580

Portrait of a Girl

Private collection1580

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence1581

Portrait of a Newborn in a Cradle

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna1583

Portrait of a Notary

Private collection1583

Portrait of the Gozzadini Family

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna1584

Portrait of a Lady

Private collection1590

Portrait of Constanza Alidosi

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington1594

Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez

Musée du Château, Blois1595

Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani as Widow

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore1595

Apollo and the Muses (Parnassus)

Private collection1598

Family Portrait

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan1598

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna1600

Head of a Youth

Galleria Borghese, Rome1606

Minerva Dressing

Private collection1612

Minerva Dressing

Galleria Borghese, Rome1613