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This self-portrait of Lavinia Fontana depicts the artist playing the clavichord, an appropriately cultured activity for a rising noblewoman. The seated Fontana is resplendent in an intricate red gown decorated with jewels and a lace collar. Brightly…

Lavinia Fontana was born and educated in Bologna towards the end of the 16th century. During this time, Bologna was remarkably progressive, compared to other Italian cities, regarding its opportunities for women – both educationally and economically.…

Bound in a lovely pink, gilt-edged and stamped glazed paper binding, schoolgirl Emma Lascal’s beautifully observed and sensitively drawn cosmography report summarizes the astronomical knowledge of her day. Nineteenth-century advances in the telescope…

This book goes in depth describing many findings about the infamous father and daughter artistic powerhouses- Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. Orazio and Artemisia were both Italian Baroque painters. Keith Christiansen and Judith Mann explain the…

A chart displaying the network of notable still life painters in Naples during this time period. The artists included in the chart were responsible for the establishment of a uniquely Neapolitan still life style of painting. Furthermore, the artists…

This is an example of what the map for the publicly-facing Giovanni Garzoni proposal would look like. The interactive map could be displayed on a large scale in a museum. We propose an online or in-person interactive map exhibit displaying the…

Kepler's model of the six known planets and their orbits around the sun through the five known platonic solids.

The painting is an entirely autograph work by Guido Reni. It is a work of exceptional importance not only on account of its composition, which being especially pleasing, was immediately well received, but also for the extraordinarily high quality of…

This work features two naked bodies in basically sideways motion, and its subject is the race between the man-resisting girl Atalanta and her ardent suitor, Hippomenes; he has thrown a golden apple to distract her, and she is stooping to pick it up.…

The Pala della Peste (Altarpiece of the Bubonic Plague) depicts the Madonna and Child in Glory with the Patron Saints of Bologna: Petronius, Francis, Ignatius, Francis Xavier, Proculus of Bologna, and Florian.

The Madonna and child are in the…