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168 GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN...
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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
informs us , is Lavinia's own portrait , and underneath she has written her own nameand the date at which it was paintedthus :
Lav . Fon . Fa . 1601 , . " In the Eseurial at Madridthere , is a M " adonna uplifting , a veil to shew her sleeping * child , who , is reposing
on richly embroidered cushions ; near them stand St . Joseph and St . John . " A picture" says Mazzolari " so vividso gay and
graceful , and of such glorious , coloring , so , full of beaut , y that one is never weary of admiring it . " ( 13 ) He lavishes the same praises on
various other works which we have not space to enumerate . One of the ictures which has especiallcontributed to her artistic fame
is now p in the Zambeceari gallery y in . Bologna . It represents the Queen of Sheba in the presence of Solomon , but it has also an
allegorical reference to the Duke and Duchess of Mantua and various personages of theircourt . In the opinion of Xtanzithis
. , picture is worthy of the Venetian school . Another picture , ascribed to Lavinia , is in the public Pinacoteca ; it represents a royal infant
playing on a bed , wrapped in blankets , and adorned with a lendid necklace . Malvasia notes another representing the
was sacr sp ifi executed ce of a b for ull the in th palace e presence of the of a Marquis king and Magnani his cour , o t f , w which hich
Tibaldi was the architect . Beneath the picture she wrote " _Lavin-Fontde Zappis 1592 . " There is also a Judith seen by torchliht
in the , possession , of the Delia Casa family . Cardinal Ascoli g g , her a commission for a picture which she sent to Home , representing
the Virgin and Child , and S . Giacinto . Baldinucci ( 14 ) considers this her best production ; it was placed in one of the chapels of
S . Sabina . So much fame did it bring her , that a large painting being required for the church of St . Paul , on the road to Ostia _,
although many of the first artists sought for the commission , it was entrusted to Lavinia , who painted the Stoning of Stephen , with a
number of figures , and a halo above representing Heaven opening . "It is true" says Baglione" that the figures being larger than life
the picture , was not so successful , as Lavinia had hoped , for a work of , such dimensions might well appal the greatest genius . But in the
Church della Pace , " he adds , " there is an oil painting , between the illarsof S . Cecilia and S . Caterina of Siena on one sideand S . Anes
and p S . , Chiara on the other ; these Lavinia painted con , amore g and nothing can be more exquisite than the coloring . " ,
Lavinia then confined herself to portrait painting , and in this branch of art she succeeded to her heart ' s content . Her talent was
inherited from her father , whose _mei'its as a portrait painter had induced Michel Angelo to recommend him to Pope Julius III .
There is a portrait by Lavinia , in the Casa Isolani , of a lady with a lap-dogwhich is perfect of its kind . And there is reason to
believe that , among the anonymous pictures in the Imperial picture . gallery of the Hermitage , in Russia , the portrait of the comic poet ,
( ( 14 13 ) ) Profess U Escuriale , del _dis , cha . p " Vol , 17 . . Ill ,, p . 370
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/24/
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