Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, ...

“It’s an Italian painting, Bolognese in spirit from ... Fontana learned to paint under the guidance of her father, Prospero Fontana, a Mannerist with a prominent reputation in the city’s art scene. At ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...