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| Fontana, Lavinia |
| 1552–1614, Italian painter, daughter of Prospero Fontana. She was a fashionable portrait painter in Bologna and Rome noted for her sensitivity in color and detail. Her self-portraits (two, Pitti Gall., Florence; another, St. Luke’s Acad., Rome) and a portrait of Pope Gregory XIII show a fine decorative sense in the treatment of costume. |
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