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Lavinia Fontana, part 1: a talented and lucky female painter

By Olivia LonguevilleIn BlogPosted August 12, 2019
Fontana

Do you know at least one female artist in Renaissance Europe?  Sofonisba Anguissola, Fede Galizia, Artemisia Gentileschi, and so forth.  However, so few of the many talented women accomplished a lot in a man-dominated world of the time.  One of them is Lavinia Fontana, who was born in Bologna in...

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Andrea del Sarto: ‘a faultless painter’ eclipsed by his contemporaries

By Olivia LonguevilleIn BlogPosted July 24, 2019
Andrea del Sarto

On the 16th of July 1486, Andrea del Sarto was born in Florence.  Sarto’s family name was likely to be Lanfranchi, and his father seems to have been a tailor.  Little is known about his childhood perhaps because they were quite uneventful.   With two short exceptions, he lived in Florence....

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