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An ‘Emmy Night’ in Florence

‘Invisible Women’ clinches the award and comes to the Odeon

On Tuesday June 25, at 7pm, the documentary Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence, (in English with Italian subtitles) will have its Italian premiere at the Odeon Theatre in Florence. Open to the public, this special screening...

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Women Artists
at the Pitti Palace

A Florence Tour
with Context Travel and AWA



‘There are still so many unanswered questions about women artists,’ explains scholar and guide Sheila Barker, when discussing the new Florence tour focused on women artists, created thanks to...

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Women Artists in the Vasari Corridor

A specialized tour to inaugurate AWA’s new Florentine guidebook.

On Friday, October 19, the Advancing Women Artists Foundation and The Florentine Press joined forces to host “Women Artists in the Vasari Corridor”, a specialized tour of one of Florence’s...

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ADVANCING WOMEN ARTISTS

A quest in Florence

Suor Plautilla Nelli, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabetta Siriani, Irene Duclos Parenti, Lavinia Fontana—the search for women artists in Florence spans hundreds of years and leads the art lover through the halls of the city’s museums, where a sprinkling of representative works gives incentive to further investigation. The whirlwind tourist knows nothing of them, while the art-loving resident lucky enough to happen upon an occasional exhibit aimed at unearthing the city’s hidden cultural patrimony may only vaguely remember their names.

Through research, restoration and exhibition, the ADVANCING WOMEN ARTISTS FOUNDATION strives to protect, acknowledge and appreciate women artists and their fundamental role in the Renaissance city and the world. Florence played mother to Michelangelo and Donatello and nurse to Giovanni Fattori, but she also engendered dozens of women whose works still grace her collections, bearing witness to the creative talents of her myriad lesser known daughters. Although Florence upholds the irrefutable worth of its most famous artists, defending their legacy as one of the most significant examples of outstanding human expression, the city’s long line of women artists, their lives and works, equally exemplifies the unstoppable strength of the creative human spirit.

Dr. Jane Fortune, Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence

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