THE PORTRAIT DRAWINGS OF LAVINIA FONTANA: GENDER, FUNCTION, AND ARTISTIC IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN BOLOGNA

This thesis explores the portrait drawings of the sixteenth-century Bolognese woman artist Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614). The first chapter focuses on Lavinia's early training in early modern Bologna, her artistic influences, and her career successes. The second chapter situates Fontana in early...

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Main Author:	Stephenson, Adrianna Hook
Other Authors:	Babette Bohn
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	Texas Christian University 2008
Subjects:	College of Fine Arts
Online Access:	http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-12182008-153459/

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spelling	ndltd-TCU-oai-etd.tcu.edu-etd-12182008-1534592013-01-08T02:48:37Z THE PORTRAIT DRAWINGS OF LAVINIA FONTANA: GENDER, FUNCTION, AND ARTISTIC IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN BOLOGNA Stephenson, Adrianna Hook College of Fine Arts This thesis explores the portrait drawings of the sixteenth-century Bolognese woman artist Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614). The first chapter focuses on Lavinia's early training in early modern Bologna, her artistic influences, and her career successes. The second chapter situates Fontana in early modern Bologna and discusses the city's tradition of a female artistic community and the practice of collecting drawings. The third chapter focuses on the two main caches of Fontana's drawings: an album in New York at the Pierpont Morgan Library and a collection of drawings in Florence at the Uffizi Gallery. This section presents a formal analysis of the drawings' qualities, their function in Fontana's design process, and their desirability to early modern collectors. The final chapter discusses Fontana's patrons and introduces concepts of drawing theory in relation to Fontana's red and black chalk portrait drawings. Babette Bohn Texas Christian University 2008-12-18 text application/pdf application/msword http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-12182008-153459/ http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-12182008-153459/ en unrestricted I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to TCU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report.
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THE PORTRAIT DRAWINGS OF LAVINIA FONTANA: GENDER, FUNCTION, AND ARTISTIC IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN BOLOGNA

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