Lavinia Fontana

Trailblazer, Rule Breaker

Aoife Brady, Babette Bohn, Jonquil O’Reilly

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National Gallery of Ireland
26 September 2023

Renaissance art

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 context to her career and examines areas underrepresented in current scholarship on the painter, including information on her workshop practice.

Focusing on the portraiture for which she was renowned, Lavinia Fontana tells stories that will be universally familiar—tales of family bonds, sibling rivalries, engagements, weddings, births, and deaths. Written by Aoife Brady, with contributions from one of the leading scholars on Fontana, Babette Bohn, and a foremost expert on Renaissance fashion, Jonquil O’Reilly, this engaging book explores Fontana’s world and how she forged a successful career in the male-dominated world of Renaissance Italy.

Exhibition Schedule:

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

(May 6–August 27, 2023)

By: Aoife Brady
Contributions by: Babette Bohn, Jonquil O’Reilly
Imprint: National Gallery of Ireland
Country of Publication: Ireland
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 225mm,
ISBN: 9781911716006
ISBN 10: 191171600X
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 26 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aoife Brady is curator of Italian and Spanish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland. Babette Bohn is professor emerita of Texas Christian University. Jonquil O’Reilly is an Old Masters specialist at Christies, New York.