What can I help restore now?

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