Fontana
Lavinia Fontana
1552-1614
Bolognese School. Born 1552; died 1614. Lavinia was the pupil of her father, Prospero Fontana, who had studied under Innocenzo da Imola. She was influenced also by the Carracci, one of whom was, like herself, a pupil of her father. Both father and daughter emulated Michelangelo, but to no great improvement of their work. Lavinia went to Rome about 1600 and became there a fashionable portrait painter, carrying out many commissions for the Roman nobility and foreign dignitaries; among her patrons are said to have been the Shah of Persia and the Persian ambassador. Her best work was in paintings of small size.
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