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jan 1, 1584 - Lavinia Fontana becomes the first woman to work on an altarpiece

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It was an important public commission the commune of Imola assigned her. She depicted an "Assumption of the Virgin witnessed by St Cassian and St Peter Chrysologus", patrons of Imola, kneeling at either side of a representation of the city.

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Date:

jan 1, 1584
Now
~ 441 years ago

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