Lavinia Fontana's mythological paintings : art, beauty, and wisdom /

This volume investigates emblematic and art-historical issues in Lavinia Fontana's mythological paintings. Fontana is the first female painter of the sixteenth century in Italy to depict female nudes, as well as mythological and emblematic paintings associated with concepts of beauty and wisdom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheney, Liana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
Temas:
Fontana, Lavinia, > 1552-1614 > Criticism and interpretation.
Fontana, Lavinia, > 1552-1614 > Themes, motives.
Fontana, Lavinia, > 1552-1614
1500-1599
Art and mythology.
Women in art.
Painting, Renaissance > Italy > Bologna.
Painting > Italy > Bologna > 16th century.
Women painters > Italy > Bologna > 16th century.
Art et mythologie.
Femmes dans l'art.
Peinture de la Renaissance > Italie > Bologne.
Peinture > Italie > Bologne > 16e siècle.
Femmes peintres > Italie > Bologne > 16e siècle.
Individual artists, art monographs.
Gender studies: women.
Cultural studies.
Art and mythology
Painting
Painting, Renaissance
Themes, motives
Women in art
Women painters
Italy > Bologna
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Allegories, personifications, mythologies, and emblematic traditions
  • 2. Lavinia Fontana : Donna dotta e nobile
  • 3. Self-portraits : Imago picta
  • 4. Venus : Celestial and terrestrial goddess, symbol of beauty
  • 5. Galatea : Personification of fortune and Venus
  • 6. Minerva Pacifica and Minerva Pudica
  • 7. Prudence : A moral allegory of wisdom
  • 8. Cleopatra the alchemist : An ancient learned woman
  • Coda.

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