Regional Victoria
![Left: Lavinia Fontana, ‘Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine’, 1574-77 oil on copper. NGV, Felton Bequest, 2021. Image: Supplied. Right: Artemisia Gentileschi, ‘Lucretia’, c.1630-35 oil on canvas. Private collection. Image: Supplied.](https://www.artshub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/01/IMG_3931.png?w=310)
Do you know the first female professional artists in Western history?
Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Aguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi sustained rewarding artistic practices with an entrepreneurial mindset.
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Capturing Flora
This superb book accompanies a major exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the largest of…