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Carla Danella in conversation with author Vanessa Nicolson By Linda Falcone Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 8 Art historian and author Vanessa Nicolson, ph. courtesy of the author Freelance writer and curator Carla Danella speaks with long-time friend Vanessa Nicolson, an art historian and author of the memoirs Have you Been Good?  and The Truth Game . More recently, Nicolson published Angels of Mud , a novel set against

Women photographers: Alinari Archives to Contemporary Perspectives Video by Olga Makarova Villa Bardini, one of the exhibition’s venues – together with Forte di Belvedere – provided an evocative backdrop to the show which brought together female greats of the past and contemporary Italian women photographers. Curated by Emanuela Sesti and Walter Guadagnini, it ran from June 19 to October 2, 2022. Organised and promoted by the Alinari Foundation for Photography and the Fondazi

Florence-based conservators and restoration scientists spent one year studying and safeguarding Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of Inclination   at Casa Buonarroti. In this new 12-minute video by filmmaker Olga Makarova, the project’s restoration team  shares process highlights, shedding light on the skill and the thrill of working with Artemisia UpClose. WATCH THE VIDEO The Artemisia UpClose project, organised and hosted by Casa Buonarroti Museum and Foundation, was sponsor

Exploring Pasquarosa’s home and history By Federica Parretti Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 8 Pasquarosa, 1913, Still life with flowers and a fan , Civico Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea We passed Tivoli, with its lovely view of the whole plain from the Aniene to the Tiber valleys, dotted with their renowned Roman hills. Then we continued on to Arsoli, amidst nature still groggy from its sleep, which offered unexpect

Women sculptors in a space of their own By Margie MacKinnon Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 8   Its All Kicking Off  Lucy Gregory, ph. Nick Turpin. MARY MARY at theCOLAB/The Artist’s Garden, Temple, London As you exit the Temple tube station, take a few quick turns to the left, then go up a short flight of stairs. You will find yourself in a public space which occupies a prime location in the City of London, overlooking th

In this episode of Restoration Conversations , explore the Innocenti Museum and Institute and its historical archive, which document and celebrate 600 years of history, as one of the world’s earliest foundling hospitals. Presenter and project coordinator Linda Falcone and museum director Arabella Natalini discuss the project ‘Girls in the Innocenti Archive: 1900-1921’, and the conservation, digitalisation and exhibition of 120 identity tokens tucked in the swaddling clothes o