Italian physician and doctor Girolamo Mercuriali
by Lavinia Fontana, at the Walters Art Museum
Portrait d’Antonietta Gonsalvus
by Lavinia Fontana, Musée de Blois (here's a painting of her father)
Holy Family with Saints
by Lavinia Fontana
Judith and Holofernes
by Lavinia Fontana (the other Judith and Holofernes painting by Fontana shows Judith holding a sword in one hand and Holofernes's head in the other)
Un homme endormi et un ange volant tenant un bélier
by Lavinia Fontana, at the Louvre
Portrait of a Noblewoman Said to Be Bianca Cappello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
by Lavinia Fontana
One by her father: Portrait of a Cardinal
by Prospero Fontana
* Curious about the Judith and Holofernes story? Here's some info, and here are some other paintings depicting the story.(The last one I include -- the Caravaggio -- is the grossest, imo.)
Lavinia Fontana really did some great work, didn't she?
ReplyDeleteI had seen the Portrait d’Antonietta Gonsalvus before and wondered about it. Thanks for the info about the family disease that caused her appearance.
Thanks also for the explanation about the Judith and Holofernes story. Makes it much clearer.