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Fig. 1. Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of Count Gentile Sassatelli (1530s-1583) , oil on canvas, 217.5 x 120 cm, 1581.
This edition of Spotlight features the Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614). The Klesch Collection is the proud custodian of her Portrait of Count Gentile Sassatelli (fig. 1), believed by some scholars to be the most important male portrait she ever painted.