Lavinia Fontana

By MrsYonkers
  • 1552

    Lavinia Fontana Was Born

  • 1560

    Lavinia Started Studying With Her Father

    Lavinia's father was a skilled painter who was influenced by the Renaissance, he taught Lavinia how to paint in the Mannerist style. (It was a form of art during the Renaissance.
  • 1568

    Lavinia Fontana Goes To The University Of Bologna. (UVB)

    Lavinia Fontana was inspired by one of the students at this college, his name was Ludovico Carracci.
  • 1575

    Lavinia Fontana created her first public painting, Child Of The Monkey

    Child Of The Monk is a lost painting today.
  • 1576

    Lavinia Fontana painted Christ With The Symbols Of The Passion

    This painting today is in the El Paso Museum of Art.
  • 1577

    Lavinia Fontana Marries Giano Paolo Zappi

    Lavinia married Giano and he managed her career and their household of eleven children!
  • Period: 1580 to

    Lavinia Fontana was the portraitist of choice among many Bolognese women.

  • Prospero Fontana dies

    Lavinia's father dies. Soon after this she executes artwork. Many people think it is to honor her father.
  • Period: to

    Lavinia Contiues To Create Art

    During this timespan Lavinia continues to create beautiful works of art.

  • Lavinia Fontana executed her most famous public work, The Stoning Of St. Stephen Martyr

    Lavinia was a recipient of honor at a ceremony. When she was there Pope Clement asked for her to execute her most famous public work. The painting was twenty feet tall! The painting stayed in The Church Of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.

  • Lavinia Fontana dies

    Lavinia Fontana dies in Rome, Italy. She most likely died from old age and/or giving birth to many children. (Only three outlived their mother.)

  • The Stoning Of St. Stephen Martyr is lost!

    The church that this painting was put in burned and the painting was lost, never to be seen again!