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The Art of Healing
Seeking women artists who bent the rules
Art Angels Program
A gift in support of AWA's programs will give you wings!
Founding the Jane Fortune Fund
Over the last decade, with founder Jane Fortune, AWA has restored and exhibited over 60 works by women artists.
Help restore Nelli's Crucifixion
The Crucifixion is part of a decade-long plan to salvage Plautilla Nelli's oeuvre.
The Adopt an Apostle Program
Help restore Nelli's Last Supper by 'adopting' an Apostle.
The Art Defense Fund
Legal-minded adopters are joining forces to take on the case of an 'unpopular defendant'.
'Women of the 1900s' - Edition 2018
Restoration and exhibition uncovers Italy's cultural history from a feminine perspective.
Lea Colliva on the Pathway of the Gods
Summer Art-by-women events outdoors and on canvas.
The Annunciation
Nelli champions the traditions of San Marco.
The Virgin Mary Presents the Baby Jesus
Violante Siriès Cerroti. It always starts with one painting.
Mrs. della Ragione
Antonietta Raphael Mafai. The story behind the sculpture.
The young Louise De Favreau, immortalized
An out-door treasure in Santa Croce’s cloister is a marble tribute from artist to poet.
Portrait of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
The last Medici heir, she is known by Florentines today as the 'Sage Princess'.
Chaplin's The Three Sisters
The restoration of Elisabeth Chaplin’s The Three Sisters at Pitti's Modern Art Gallery.
Saint Catherine with a Lily
Florence’s Last Super Museum of Andrea del Sarto boasts new work attributed to Nelli.
David and Bathsheba
One can never tell what treasures might be hiding in the Pitti, one of Florence’s loveliest palaces.
Duclos’ Copy of Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna del Sacco
This Duclos painting hangs in the Salone dell’Ottocento amidst ‘memories’ of Canova and Bartolini.
Truck by Titina Maselli
Twentieth-century artist Titina Maselli's 1968 painting exemplifies her city-inspired work.
Presentation of Baby Jesus at the Temple
The story that inspired Plautilla Nelli's earliest work.
Tribute for Madame Anne De Fauveau
De Fauveau’s mother was her ‘partner in crime’ and inspiration for one of the artist’s best works.
Portrait of Alberto Moravia
It's all in the family for colorist Adriana Pincherle.
Greta Garbo by Titina Maselli
Greta Garbo, one of Maselli’s two contributions to Florence, painted in 1964
Portrait of Emilio Jesi
by Antonietta Raphael Mafai
Mafai's trusted patron's portrait is a sign of her times.
Maternity
by Antonietta Raphael Mafai
For Florence, the mother of all artists.
View of Olevano
by Antonietta Raphael Mafai
AWA restores a work with 'gypsy soul'.
Gianna Manzini's portrait by Adriana Pincherle
The 'painted' novelist returns to its place among the greats of literature.
Nelli’s Saint Dominic Receives the Rosary
An art treasure for Nelli’s order at the Last Super Museum of Andrea del Sarto, Florence.
Houses in Demolition
Scenes of 'destruction' reborn.
Interior with Figures by Vittoria Morelli
The colors of an invisible artist shine through.
Plautilla Nelli's self-portrait?
Can Nelli's Codex 566 representing Dominican nuns be considered a self-portrait of sorts?
Measurements
Bice Lazzari, a Venetian painter for Florence.
Steely Composure
What does Pincherle’s portrait series say about the artist?
Amelia Avant-garde
The artist known giving Cuban painting female insight.
Sculptural painting
Does Pincherle’s technique reveal her character?
A Saint Catherine for the San Marco Monastery
Saint Catherine was a money-maker for Nelli and her sisters.
Deep in thought
Pincherle captures her husband’s brooding.
Plautilla Nelli’s Assisi Catherine
The Assisi version of Nelli’s Saint Catherine with a Lily
An Autumn portrait
A close up view for an unsettling sitter.
The Dollhouse?
Details from Levasti's Daily Life.
Vivid words and pictures
Streaks of color for Italy’s master of word-play.
‘A magic transposition’
Was Pincherle giving many voices to Morante in her 1968 portrait?
Oranges
Edita Broglio. A tiny work, a major artistic movement.
The ‘look of books’
Pincherle takes a whimsical look at Bonsanti in her 1967 portrait.
Amalia Ciardi Duprè's Maternity
This artwork was originally designed as a trophy!
Prato’s Catherine
Nelli and her nuns worked from a cartoon like the masters of her time.
'Red and Green'
Carla Accardi's new colors for Florence?
Workers on Lunar Craters
Lolo Soldevilla’s fine example of geometric abstractionism.
Violent Color for Pincherle
Longhi’s comments colored Pincherle’s debut.
Orange melancholy
A self-depiction with a different mood.
Leonetta Pieraccini Cecchi’s Portrait of Cesare Pascarella
Painter captures writer with whimsy.
A husband’s portrait, Leonetta Pieraccini Cecchi
A canvas, a window on marital ties.
Self portrait in backlight for Leonetta Pieraccini
The Tuscan artist sees self-depiction as a play on light.
Plautilla partial drapery study
Nelli robing gives new meaning to the phrase ‘it’s a wrap’.
Plautilla Nelli’s Lamentation with Saints
The artwork that started it all.
Saint Catherine Receives the Stigmata
The painting needed a miracle and it happened… on canvas.
Nelli looks to Michelangelo
Anatomy, a daring endeavour for a Renaissance convent artist.
Plautilla’s lady, quality ‘unexpected’
Project curator poses questions.
Plautilla Nelli’s Seated Madonna Nursing
Florence’s first artist practices with well-loved theme.
Nelli’s ‘Youth’, stored and restored
Nelli ‘inherited’ Fra’ Bartolomeo’s drawings and made her own as practice.
Rita Longa’s Gray Bird
An abstract Cuban gift.
Daphne Maugham’s In the Garden
Naturalism and ‘lyrical sensitivity’.
Amalia Ciardi Dupré’s Maternity Lying Down
‘It’s raining mothers’. Maternity is a common theme for the Tuscan artist