During the Renaissance women were idolized to be not cherishable assets that were solely groomed for men. Creating inequalities that will force an alliance on men. This ideology would frame many of the educational, social, and economical endeavours of women living in this time period. As Mclver examines Lavinia Fontana’s “Self- Portrait Making music”, she states that Fontana paves the way for women artists to thrive after the Renaissance. I propose that Lavinia Fontana became a well known female artist of her time because of her tenacious beliefs to not conform to the societal social norms. She came from an established artistic family, “that was well known in Bologna by 1535” (Mclver 3). Given Fontana’s family background, the gift of art