Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker

The first monograph to examine Lavinia Fontana’s work in over two decades, and the first to focus on her striking portraits

Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker explores this female Renaissance artist’s fascinating biography and the cultural climate that enabled her to become the first woman artist in Western Europe to gain commercial success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Bringing together several strands of scholarship on Fontana and her contemporaries, it provides con...