Month: August 2020

Suzanne Valadon, whose real name was Marie-Clémentine Valade, was born in the Limousin area of France on September 23, 1865, the daughter of a widowed washerwoman and an unknown father. She was an artist, a model for a number of famous painters of her time and later a painter in her own right, a free […]

Lavinia Fontana was an Italian painter who lived and worked during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. She was born in Bologna, Italy in 1552, and was one of the most important portraitists of her time. She became an official painter at the court of Pope Clement VIII and, after his death, was appointed […]