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Stitching for Virtue: Lavinia Fontana, Elisabetta Sirani, and Textiles in Early Modern Bologna

by wpengine | Jan 8, 2022 | News/Blog

Guest post by Patricia Rocco, Hunter College, CUNY  Although Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani worked with paint rather than textiles, nevertheless their work intersected with Bologna’s thriving embroidery industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
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