Lavinia Fontana

Lavinia Fontana (baptized in Bologna Cathedral, August 24 1552, died in Rome, August 11 1614) was an Italian portrait-painter whose father was the painter Prospero Fontana. Her gender made her choice of profession a rarity at the time.

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• {{googleprintpage|id=htxyDLrS5SkC|pg=PA172|name=The Italian Renaissance}}, ed. Paula Findlen
• {{googleprintpage|id=BCduKb-ujO8C|pg=PA298|name=Concise Dictionary of Women Artists}}, ed. Delia Gaze