Thu Jan 17, 2019 06:42 PM

Morning Modelbuch (1/18/2019)

The cuff in this detail from The Gozzadini Family by Lavinia Fontana dated 1584 had my jaw dropping. I’m still looking for an exact match, but it has some of the same motifs we saw earlier in Franco. Since I’ve shared those pages, I thought it might be nice to look at Isabetta Catanea Parasole’s _Fiore D’Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone_ from 1610. My reasoning was I like getting to feature two successful women artists and Parasole has some lovely patterns combining multiple techniques in single patterns as these cuffs show.

http://www.pinacotecabologna.beniculturali.it/it/content_page/item/540-la-famiglia-gozzadini https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/355096