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Invisible Women, Forgotten Artists Of Florence
''Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence'' is a 2009 book in English and Italian by Jane Fortune through the Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA) and published by The Florentine Press. The book describes the history of female artists in Florence and their hundreds of works in the city's museums or storehouses. AWA has rediscovered at least 2,000 works by women artists that have been forgotten in museum attics and churches of Florence, and they have restored more than 60 paintings so far. Contributing authors include Linda Falcone, Serena Padovani, Rosella Lari and Sheila Barker. It has twenty-six chapters on thirty-five women artists active in Florence. The book was the basis of a five-part Emmy award winning television documentary, produced by WFYI Productions, which was first broadcast on PBS in 2012. Description ''Invisible Women'' discusses female artistic influence in Florence starting with the first known Florentine nun-artist Suor Plautilla Nelli. It describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Fortune
Jane Fortune (August 7, 1942 – September 23, 2018) was an American author and journalist. Many of her publications and philanthropic activities were centered on the research, restoration, and exhibition of art by women in Florence, Italy. Writing Fortune was the cultural editor of ''The Florentine'', an English-language newspaper in Tuscany, in which she appeared as a regular art and culture columnist from the newspaper's founding in 2005 until her death in 2018. Her original column, ''Mosaics'' (2005–2008), led to her writing a guidebook on the culture of Florence, ''To Florence, Con Amore: 77 Ways to Love the City'' (The Florentine Press, 2007). The book's second edition, reprinted three years later with 13 additional chapters, is entitled ''To Florence, Con Amore: 90 Ways to Love the City'' (The Florentine Press, 2011). Fortune's subsequent books, documentaries, and essays were influenced largely by her efforts to safeguard and promote art by women artists. Her book, '' I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy Antwerp silk merchant, Anthony painted from an early age. He was successful as an independent painter in his late teens, and became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1618. By this time he was working in the studio of the leading northern painter of the day, Peter Paul Rubens, who became a major influence on his work. Van Dyck worked in London for some months in 1621, then returned to Flanders for a brief time, before travelling to Italy, where he stayed until 1627, mostly in Genoa. In the late 1620s he completed his greatly admired ''Iconography'' series of portrait etchings, mostly of other artists. He spent five years in Flanders after his return from Italy, and from 1630 was court painter for the arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Maddalena Gozzi
Maria Maddalena Baldacci (1718–1782) was an Italian painter. She was born in Florence. She painted portrait miniatures and crayon, including the portrait of Empress Maria Theresa. References * 1718 births 1782 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian women painters Portrait miniaturists 18th-century Italian women artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Ancillotti Goretti
Beatrice Ancillotti Goretti (1879–1937) was an Italian artist who painted in the Renaissance tradition. Family Beatrice Caterina Enrichetta Ancillotti Goretti was born in Florence in 1879 into a family of impassioned liberals. Her maternal grandfather Demetrio Corgialegno (1785–1861), who had settled in Florence, came from an old and rich Byzantine noble family. He fought alongside the poet, Lord George Byron, during the Greek war of independence. He established a secret organisation aimed at overthrowing Ottoman rule based in both Corfu and his home town, Argostoli. Later, between 1838 and 1842, owing to his Tuscan connections, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopoldo II, gifted to him large quantities of books for the newly founded University of Athens. In 1871 Goretti's future father, Torello Ancillotti (1843–1899) married her mother Marianna Coriaglegno, known in the family as Demetria or Memi, with whom he would have two other children, Luisa, who died aged nine, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Silei
Luisa Silei (17 February 1825 – 5 February 1898) was an Italian painter who mainly painted Landscape painting, landscapes. Life Luisa was born and resided in Florence. She studied with Károly Markó the Younger, Carlo Marko. She exhibited in 1883, in Roma: ''Dawn is Near'' and ''A trip in Autumn''. At the 1884 Turin Exhibition of Fine Arts, she exhibits: ''Il sorger della Luna''. In this same time, at the Exposition of the Society of the Encouragement of Fine Arts of Florence: ''Flowers'' which in 1885, was re-exhibited at the same Exposition. She also participated in the 1882 Florentine Exhibition of Fine Arts. One of her master works is ''Reminiscenze del Lago d' Orbetello''. by An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
