Australian art gallery acquires 450-year-old religious painting by first woman admitted to painters guild in Rome
Sydney, Australia The National Gallery of Victoria has acquired a 450-year-old painting by 16th century Italian artist Lavinia Fontana, thanks to a bequest established by English-born Australian entrepreneur and philanthropist Alfred Felton following his death in 1904. The lives of this pair, out of time and place, became entwined when Fontana painted Mystic marriage of St […]