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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
