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The Innocenti Institute's Historical Archive, Ph. Marco Badiani, 2025 Little Meteors: The Girls Restoring Tokens at the Innocenti Institute   By Linda Falcone   This article was first published in Restoration Conversations Magazine Issue 7, Spring 2025   The Innocenti Hospital’s historical archive comprises more than 13,000 documents and objects from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, including ‘tokens’ that parents left with their foundling children, as proof of iden

A new restoration at Europe’s earliest foundling hospital By Linda Falcone Autumn/Winter 2024-25, Issue 06 Restoration Conversations magazine A token left with one of the children, Ph. Marco Lanza, Courtesy of the Istituto degli Innocenti The cobalt blue and white roundels by Andrea della Robbia, which feature on the loggia of Brunelleschi’s Ospedale degli Innocenti – now home to the Innocenti Museum and Institute – depict babies who remain ‘forever young’, thanks to the gla

Photo by G. Blancourt Cinema lovers are looking forward to autumn 2025 and the tribute to Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020), a revolutionary...

From 2024 to 2026,  Calliope Arts Foundation  and the   Festival dei Popoli  Institute are launching a collaborative project ‘ Women...

Conservator recounts Violante Siriès’ restoration By Elizabeth Wicks This article was originally published in Restoration Conversations ...

Art detectives for ‘Violante’ AWA Legacy Fund sees dream unfold by Linda Falcone This article was originally published in Restoration...

Safeguarding the Wulz sisters’ legacy at FAF Interview by Linda Falcone Portrait of Wanda Wulz at the mirror (c. 1950), photo by Marion...

PHOTOGRAPHERS WANDA AND MARION WULZ. Safeguarding their legacy October 2023 marked the start of a collaborative project aimed at...

From September to December 2023 SEE FULL PROGRAMME CALENDAR Photo kindly provided by Villa La Petraia, Venere Fiorenza As Autumn...

The ‘Palace women’ programme 2023 rediscovers female forerunners in the monumental Florentine venues in which they lived and worked....

SCIENCE SISTERS Artemsia visits the National Institute of Optics... "Most people consider art conservation a painstaking process where...

In-progress restoration of Artemisia’s painting in the home of Michelangelo Above: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of Inclination ready...

One of the primary goals of the project 'FOTOGRAFE' is a dual exhibition in Florence, enabling the public to explore women in the...

Historic and contemporary women together “The 'FOTOGRAFE!' project celebrates the ways in which historic and contemporary women have been...

Pulp and Primroses workshop , ph. Maria Laura Fineschi, Gruppo Fotografico Il Cupolone Today's talents take cues from historic women...