Art by Women in Florence

Art by Women in Florence: A Guide through Five Hundred Years is divided into eight sections, including a brief segment on unexhibited paintings, and provides a fold-out map of Florence delineating twenty locations housing viewable artwork.[3] (See full list below.)

The book points to a number of religious paintings in Florence's churches including works by Suor Plautilla Nelli, the city's first known woman artist (2) such as her Lamentation with Saints in the San Marco Museum. Visitors to Santa Maria del Carmine will find a burial monument by Félice de Fauveau, considered to be one of the most preeminent marble sculptures of the nineteenth century. Art by Women in Florence spotlights Artemisia Gentileschi, a seventeenth-century Baroque master known to depict historical and mythical heroines. A significant portion of the guide showcases self-portraiture in the Vasari Corridor. These protagonists include the wildly popular Angelica Kauffmann whose work inspired designs for high-class housewares at the peak of the Industrial Revolution and Cecilia Beaux the earliest American invited to contribute to the Corridor's self-portrait collection. (2) Art by Women in Florence guides the reader to the outskirts of Florence to explore various Medici villas hosting works by numerous women including Lavinia Fontana, the first female painter to receive a public commission in Italy, and seventeenth-century court artist Giovanna Fratellini.[3]

1) Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo)

2) Casa Buonarroti

3) Santa Croce

4) Uffizi Gallery

5) Print and Drawings Collection

6) Vasari Corridor

7) Palatine Gallery

8) Gallery of Modern Art

9) Silver Museum

10) Gabinetto S. L. G. P. Viesseux

11) Santa Maria del Carmine

12) Santa Maria Novella

13) Proc. Gen. Repubblica

14) Oblate Gallery

15) Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi

16) Accademia Gallery

17) Marucelliana Library

18) San Marco Museum

19) Innocenti Museum

20) S. Salvi Museum