Description
Creators of Culture in Florence
Eleonora di Toledo’s purchase of an Oltrarno home and the emergence of Florence’s artisan district. Cristina di Lorena’s creation of a Medici wonderland at Villa La Petraia. Vittoria della Rovere’s role in supporting women’s art at Poggio Imperiale. Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici’s stroke of legal genius which linked Florence to an eternal Renaissance. Elizabeth Browning’s perspective from the windows of Casa Guidi, where she called for freedom and claimed it for herself.
Fifteen women photographers and eight contemporary artisans rediscover female influencers in their Tuscan palaces, villas or garden oases and produce artisanal works or pictures celebrating their untold legacies. From the former convent of San Francesco di Paola, to the once-hunting lodge of Isabella de’ Medici, this keepsake volume explores multiple venues, where ‘palace women’ – from the sixteenth century to the present day – have carved their place in history as creators of culture, giving new meaning to the ever-relevant aspiration: “a room of one’s own”.
Published for the exhibition Palace Women. Photography and Artisanal Exhibition
Florence, Il Palmerino Cultural Association, 30 October 2023 – 15 December 2024
curated by Linda Falcone
Photographers / Fotografe Gruppo Fotografico Il Cupolone
Alessandra Barrucchieri, Valentina Bellini, Sabina Bernacchini, Cinzia Carmen Cardellicchio, Paola Curradi, Maria Grazia Dainelli, Susan Duca, Cristina Garzone, Cecilia Franchi,
Maria Laura Fineschi, Daniela Giampà, Sandra Lumini, Olga Makarova, Viola Parretti and Antonella Tomassi
Artisans / Artigiani artisti
Negar Azhar Azari, Paola Lucchesi, Brenda Luize Roepke
‘Intreccio Creativo’: Ilaria Ceccarelli, Jane Harman, Ayako Nakamori, Kristie Mathieson, Andrew Stone, Stefania Tiranti
