| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Allegories, personifications, mythologies, and emblematic traditions -- 2. Lavinia Fontana : Donna dotta e nobile -- 3. Self-portraits : Imago picta -- 4. Venus : Celestial and terrestrial goddess, symbol of beauty -- 5. Galatea : Personification of fortune and Venus -- 6. Minerva Pacifica and Minerva Pudica -- 7. Prudence : A moral allegory of wisdom -- 8. Cleopatra the alchemist : An ancient learned woman -- Coda |
| Summary |
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.-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Fontana, Lavinia, 1552-1614 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Fontana, Lavinia, 1552-1614 -- Themes, motives
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Fontana, Lavinia, 1552-1614 fast |
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Art and mythology.
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Women in art.
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Painting, Renaissance -- Italy -- Bologna
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Painting -- Italy -- Bologna -- 16th century
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Women painters -- Italy -- Bologna -- 16th century
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Individual artists, art monographs.
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Gender studies: women.
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Cultural studies.
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Art and mythology
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Painting
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Painting, Renaissance
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Themes, motives
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Women in art
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Women painters
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Italy -- Bologna
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fontana, Lavinia, 1552-1614, artist.
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| ISBN |
9781527558274 |
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1527558274 |
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