In honor of Women’s History Month, we find out about trailblazer Lavinia Fontana, a celebrity artist in Renaissance Italy. Her portraits were all the rage among the nobility of Bologna and with the help of a supportive (and broad-minded) husband/business manager, she became the first professional woman artist.
SHOW NOTES
“A Long Look” opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas:
“Ascension” https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and “Easy” https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs
Episode music:
“Rondeau” and “My Mistress is as Fine as Faire ” performed by John Sayles
“Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - 13 - Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta” composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Kimiko Ishizaka.
http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm
https://musopen.org/music/4107-goldberg-variations-bwv-988/
Artwork information
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/portrait-noblewoman/
Self-portrait
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15883827
Lavinia Fontana information
https://www.nga.gov/press/acquisitions/2022/lavinia-fontana.html
https://www.nga.gov/stories/lavinia-fontana-and-lucia-bonasoni-garzoni-two-professional-women.html
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/fontana-lavinia/
National Museum for Women in the Arts
https://nmwa.org/
https://nmwa.org/nmwa-at-home/
Lavinia Fontana: Pioneering Painter of the 16th Century (Getty)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgeDGtF11KY
Lavinia Fontana of Bologna, 1552-1614
Catalog for exhibition of the same name, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1998
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