A small museum in northern France has announced the surprise discovery of a new masterpiece by Lavinia Fontana, one of the most celebrated woman painters of the Italian Renaissance. The lost work ...

In 2024, a 16th-century painting by Lavinia Fontana was rediscovered in the vaults of the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, after being misattributed for over 150 years. The Chartreuse de Douai Museum ...

A painting sitting in storage at a provincial museum in northern France was recently reattributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the foremost female painters of the Italian Renaissance. The painting ...

Lavinia Fontana, who was born in Bologna but died in Rome, grew up in a scholarly environment and was taught to paint by her father Prospero Fontana. As a trailblazing woman painter, she was a ...

A provincial museum in northern France on Friday showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had for decades ...