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Lavinia Fontana (1552, Bologna — 11 August 1614, Rome) was an Italian artist of the late Renaissance, a representative of Mannerism. She is considered the first woman to carry out large private and public commissions.

Features of Lavinia Fontana's art.

Lavinia Fontana worked in the same areas as her male rivals, who did not find patronage at courts and monasteries.

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She worked not only in the portrait genre, which was traditional for her contemporaries, but she also painted large-scale paintings on religious and mythological subjects, sometimes depicting nudes. Fontana was the first woman to paint nude, and probably the first artist to work with live nude models.

Success in the field of portraiture brought her fame throughout Italy, and commissions allowed her to feed her family of thirteen people.

Famous paintings of Lavinia Fontana. Self-portrait at the Clavichord with a Servant, The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez, Portrait