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

National Central Library of Florence, Dante Hall March 8 – June 8, 2024 Video courtesy of @museogalileo This exhibition, the first of its kind in Italy, focuses on the role of women in astronomical research and on exploring the female images that most frequently feature in representations of the cosmos from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. Drawing on the rich holdings of the Central National Library of Florence, this exhibition presents scientific, literary and

Florence-based Russian filmmaker Olga Makarova visits the ateliers of ‘Palace Women’ artisans in the Oltrarno and beyond, in this short video spotlighting the creative process of crafters Ilaria Ceccarelli and Ayako Nakamori (fabrics and natural cord), Kristie Mathieson (grès) Jane Harman (wood), Andrew Stone (watercolor woodblock prints), Negar Azhar Azari and Brenda Luize Roepke (jewelry). From September to December 2023, lectures, tours, original artisanship, music, an exh

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

On October 30, 2023, organisers Il Palmerino Cultural Association, the British Institute of Florence and Calliope Arts inaugurated the...

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