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“A tender ardour”
Julia Margaret Cameron by Linda Falcone Calcutta-born British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was about my age when she...
The ‘archive angel’ and new music from the Renaissance
Musica Secreta’s Laurie Stras on women’s voices By Margie MacKinnon Musica Secreta, ph Kate Beaugié “I’ve made it my musicological life...
“I am becoming somebody”
Paula Modersohn-Becker at the Royal Academy of Art by Margie MacKinnon Paula Modersohn-Becker, Girl with Child, 1902, Kunstmuseum Den...
A Labour of Love
Iris Origo and the transformation of La Foce by Margaret MacKinnon It did not seem like a marriage made in heaven. The groom, Antonio...
An introduction to three ‘New Women’ photographers
Andrea Nelson is curator of the exhibition 'The New Woman Behind the Camera', and associate curator in the Department of Photographs at...
'The Innocents of Florence'
An interview with David Battistella A 600-year-old painting leads two art conservators in Florence on a journey uncovering the city's...
A is for Florence's Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
Throughout its multi-century history, there have been a considerable number of women painters at the AADFI, the first of whom was...
Life among the ruins
Margie MacKinnon interviews Mary Cochrane on restoration and rebuilding in Beirut, following the blast that damaged the Sursock family...
Artemisia
An interview with curator Letizia Treves. Meet 'Artemisia', the exhibition and the woman who inspired it. One of the most dynamic...
Turn-of-the-century expats fight it out
Florence’s turn-of-the-century plan for urban renewal included replacing the Ponte Vecchio. It took an international campaign led by...