Editing Mannerism (section)

=== Lavinia Fontana ===
[[Lavinia Fontana]] (1552–1614) was a Mannerist portraitist often acknowledged to be the first female career artist in Western Europe.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Murphy |first=Caroline |title=Lavinia Fontana: a painter and her patrons in sixteenth-century Bologna |date=2003 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0300099134 |location=New Haven, Connecticut |oclc=50478433}}</ref> She was appointed to be the Portraitist in Ordinary at the [[Holy See|Vatican]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Self-portraits by women painters |date=2000|publisher=Ashgate|first=Liana |last=Cheney |editor1=Alicia Craig Faxon |editor2=Kathleen Lucey Russo |isbn=1859284248|location=Aldershot, Hants, England|oclc=40453030}}</ref> Her style is characterized as being influenced by the [[The Carracci|Carracci family]] of painters by the colors of the Venetian School. She is known for her portraits of noblewomen, and for her depiction of nude figures, which was unusual for a woman of her time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lavinia Fontana's nude Minervas |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lavinia+Fontana%27s+nude+Minervas.-a0464162808 |access-date=10 March 2019 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref>