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Album: At the exhibition 'Return Home. Lola Costa at Il Palmerino'

June 26, 2024 saw the opening of the exhibition ‘Return Home: Lola Costa at Il Palmerino’. “Lola Costa’s art does not protest the status...

The Curators' Quaderno - Issue 1

Return Home: Lola Costa at Il Palmerino Our first edition of The Curators’ Quaderno explores the evolution of Lola Costa’s art over...

Two exhibitions for "Louise Bourgeois in Florence"

June 22 to October 20, 2024 – Louise Bourgeois, MOTHER AND CHILD, 2007, Fabric and thread, 27.3 x 66 x 36.8 cm, Ph. Christopher Burke ©...

Eggs and shades of gold

Painter Christiana Herringham, in focus Co-curator and scholar Elizabeth Prettejohn recounts pre-Raphaelite painter Christiana...

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS… on Florence Nightingale

Writers and readers share connections by Carol Annett, Ottawa, Canada Restoration Conversations magazine SPRING / SUMMER 2024, Issue 5...

Album: Curator and conservator speak of 'stellar women'

Presenter Linda Falcone interviews National Central Library conservator Alessandro Sidoti and Natacha Fabbri, scientific curator from...

Breaking into the Boys’ Club

Angelica Kauffman at the Royal Academy by Margie MacKinnon Restoration Conversations magazine Issue 05 Spring/Summer 2024 ‘Angelica...

Course: Women artists, educators, collectors and scientists

A New Course starting 18 March 2024: A Century of Women in the Arts (1866-1966) It’s time to discover Florence like never before. Join us...

Album: Backstage with '5,000 Negatives'

Safeguarding the Wulz sisters’ legacy at FAF at Art Defender Autumn 2023 marked the start of a new collaborative project called ‘5,000...

Video: Seven Canvases for Henrietta Leavitt’s Sky

Italian artist Ilaria Margutti uses embroidery to capture the brilliance of Henrietta Leavitt, who was hired by Harvard University as a...

'WOMEN OF THE SKY. From Muses to Scientists': Exhibition in the spotlight

National Central Library of Florence, Dante Hall Via Magliabechi 2, Florence 8 March – 8 June 2024 Curators: Natacha Fabbri, Caterina...

'WOMEN OF THE SKY. From Muses to Scientists': An interview with co-curator Natacha Fabbri

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale holds exhibition inspired by early women astronomers "Women of the Sky: From Muses to Scientists" is...

Video: Women of the Sky. From Muses to Scientists - Intro

National Central Library of Florence, Dante Hall March 8 – June 8, 2024 Video courtesy of @museogalileo This exhibition, the first of its...

Video: Restoration Diaries

Florence-based conservators and restoration scientists spent one year studying and safeguarding Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of...

Video: The Big Reveal, with 'Click'

If you are wondering about ‘The Big Reveal’, watch the virtual reconstruction of Artemisia Gentileschi’s censored nude figure in Allegory...

Video: ‘Palace Women’ recounted…'

Florence-based Russian filmmaker Olga Makarova visits the ateliers of ‘Palace Women’ artisans in the Oltrarno and beyond, in this short...

Feature:Trailblazer, Rule Breaker

Lavinia Fontana at the National Gallery of Ireland by Margie MacKinnon Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) was the first woman in Europe to...

Video: Insights onto the show FOTOGRAFE!

Women photographers: Alinari Archives to Contemporary Perspectives Video by Olga Makarova Villa Bardini, one of the exhibition’s venues –...

The Painting in the Dining Room

Paula Rego’s Garden of Delights by Margie MacKinnon Detail from Paula Rego’s Crivelli’s Garden (1990–1). Presented by English Estates,...

Notable Women

Profiles of two female composers featured in 'Scoring Suffrage' at the Florence Lyceum by Margie MacKinnon A supermoon illuminated the...

Header photo: Marco Benvenuti, ‘At the Atelier degli Artigianelli’, 2021.

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