Lavinia Fontana's mythological paintings : art, beauty, and wisdom / Liana De Girolami Cheney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheney, Liana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fontana, Lavinia, 1552-1614--Criticism and interpretation.

Fontana, Lavinia.

Fontana, Lavinia, 1552-1614--Themes, motives.

Art and mythology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2020]

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.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Coda

Selected Bibliography

Index

Colour Centrefold

Black and White Centrefold.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-5827-4

OCLC:

1193133077