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‘Palace Women’ Find Common Ground Photographers and Crafters Tribute Historic Women in Tuscany 32 Restoration Conversations • Winter 2023
What does Eleonora Toledo, a Spanish-born WDuchess with eleven children, have in common Wwith an ex-patriot poet who called her sole son W‘Pen’, a name referencing the instrument both WBrownings loved best? What does Cosimo I’s Wfavourite daughter, Isabella – who until very Wrecently was thought to have been murdered in Wbed by her jealous husband – have in common with Elizabeth Brewster Hildebrand, who lived and painted in idyllic San Francesco di Paola, some five centuries later? What common ground is shared by seventeenth-century French Princess Cristina di Lorena – who built a paradise of sorts at Villa La Petraia – and British writer and pacifist Vernon Lee, who sought to escape an outbreak of cholera, at the turn of the last century, by settling at Il Palmerino, the country house where the ‘Palace Women’ exhibition was featured in the autumn of 2023? This small-scale show, forming part of the ‘Palace Women’ programme, organised by the British Institute of Florence, Calliope Arts and Il Palmerino, was imagined for this Florentine colonica once frequented by the twentiethcentury’s sharpest minds, including Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. The show featured photographs and handmade objects by modern-day crafters inspired by the female icons who lived and worked in the monumental venues of Cerreto Guidi, Villa La Petraia, Villa La Quiete, San Francesco di Paola, Palazzo Pitti and Poggio Imperiale. Palace Women’s ‘common ground’ is that all of the historic women featured were ‘creators of culture’, in a world where moveable property – not necessarily property itself – formed part of women’s realm of power. Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere is one of the most significant examples. A Medici by birth and by marriage, she was betrothed while still in the cradle, as heir to the coveted Duchy of Urbino. However, in an easily anticipated twist of history, Ferdinando II’s marriage to the twelve-year-old girl did not enable her land to be annexed to the Tuscan Opposite page: Medici Villa La Petraia by Carmen Cardellicchio. Above: Workshop Students by Viola Parretti Winter 2023 • Restoration Conversations 33
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