Books and catalogues

The catalogue 'Relative Ties', an exploration of the Nicholson women’s artistic legacy across three generations, highlighting matrilineal influence, creative collaborations, textiles, and painting. Relative Ties highlights the work of three generations of women artists from the illustrious Nicholson family—Mabel Nicholson, Nancy Nicholson, EQ Nicholson, and Louisa Creed—and explores what women inherit from their mothers, what can be passed down matrilineal lines, and the impo

This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition Ketty La Rocca, held at the Estorick Collection in 2025. Born in La Spezia, La Rocca moved to Florence in 1956 where she began working with the avant-garde collective Gruppo 70. Her initial experiments included works of visual poetry and collages that explored the pervasive influence of the mass media on daily life, with a particular focus on gender issues and socio-political themes. During the early 1970s, she turned t

This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879–1961). Described in 1923 as ‘the most important woman painter in Europe’, Bell was a pioneering modernist and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of influential English artists, writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. The book traces Bell’s explorations into the Italian Renaissance, her encounters with the Eu

Exhibition catalogue, Silvana Editoriale, 2024 This photographic journey is marked by events that placed the city of Trieste at the center of the international scene. The Wulz photographers captured the milestones of their city's economic, demographic, social and cultural development, through a privileged lens, while running their Trieste photography studio (1868-1981) for more than a century. This volume presents nearly three hundred images, including photographic prints, ne

Book in Italian only. Curated by Cristina Acidini and Alessandro Cecchi Published by Oficina Libraria, 2023 The restoration of the Allegory of Inclination by Artemisia Gentileschi , the most famous female artist in Italy and Europe in the 17th century, involved not only conservation work on the painting but also an extensive diagnostic campaign using the most advanced imaging techniques available for restoration. The allegory, commissioned by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Youn

A New Book from The Florentine Press 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 freed

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of Inclination (1616) tributes the genius of Michelangelo, gives a nod to Galileo, and bears a striking resemblance to Artemisia herself. During its conservation at Casa Buonarroti, the canvas was removed from its ceiling heights, and placed at eye-level in the Florentine home-museum where Artemisia worked while five months pregnant, receiving a salary three times that of her male counterparts, and earning the esteem of her patron, Michelang

By Linda Falcone and Gruppo Fotografico il Cupolone The Florentine Press, 2022 Florence in the Making is a photographic journey that is further illustrated through “snapshot quotes” from interviews led by author and project coordinator Linda Falcone, as 21 of the Oltrarno Gaze project’s protagonists reflect on the values they find most indispensable to their creative process. To capture the essence of their creative process, 14 women photographers from the award-winning ph

Vintage prints, albums and negatives from the Alinari Archives spotlight more than forty female photographers, starting with early daguerreotypists of the 1840s, such as French photographer Bernardine Caroline Théodora Hirza Lejeune (Paris, 1824-1895). Other works featured include original prints by Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Lucia Moholy, Maria Mulas, Ketty La Rocca, Lisetta Carmi, Diane Arbus and Bettina Rheims. Their works are exhibited