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LAVINIA FONTANA (1552-1614)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 607 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FONTANA (1552-1614)  , See also:Italian portrait-painter, was the daughter of Prospero See also:Fontana (q.v.) . She was greatly employed by the ladies of See also:Bologna, and, going thence to See also:Rome, painted the likenesses of many illustrious personages, being under the particular patronage of the See also:family (Buoncampagni) of See also:Pope See also:Gregory XIII., who died in 1585 . The See also:roman ladies, from the days of this pontiff to those of See also:Paul V., elected in 16o5, showed no less favour to Lavinia than their Bolognese sisters had done; and Paul V. was himself among her sitters . Some of her portraits, often lavishly paid for, have been attributed to Guido .. In See also:works of a different See also:kind also she See also:united care and delicacy with boldness . Among the See also:chief of these are a See also:Venus in the See also:Berlin museum; the " Virgin lifting a See also:veil from the sleeping See also:infant See also:Christ," in the See also:Escorial; and the " See also:Queen of Sheba visiting See also:Solomon." Her own portrait in youth—she was accounted very beautiful—was perhaps her masterpiece; it belongs to the See also:counts Zappi of See also:Imola, the family into which Lavinia married . Her See also:husband, whose name is given as See also:Paolo Zappi or Paolo See also:Foppa, painted the draperies in many of Lavinia's pictures . She is deemed on the whole a better painter than her See also:father; from him naturally came her first instruction, but she gradually adopted the Caraccesque See also:style, with strong quasi-Venetian colouring . She was elected into the See also:Academy of Rome, and died in that See also:city in 1614 .

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