Winter 2023

GRAZIE MILLE
As the conversation around women’s achievements grows, we have more
and more people to thank with every issue of the magazine. Not that we are
complaining! It is wonderful to see this community expanding. Massive thanks to
the people whose words fill these pages:
Virtuosic violinist Ruth Palmer; curator, academic and author Claudia Tobin; Director
of the Alinari Phototography Foundation Claudia Baroncini; members of the 5,000
Negatives team Eugenia Di Rocco and Pamela Ferrari; National Gallery (London)
curator Priyesh Mistry; Museo Novecento’s artistic director and curator Sergio Risaliti;
National Gallery of Ireland’s curator Aoife Brady and conservator Maria Canavan; art
historian and dean emerita of the National Gallery (Washington) Elizabeth Cropper;
Towards Modernity co-curator Ilaria Sgarbozzo; Consuelo Lollobrigida, professor
and art historian; the Opificio delle pietre dure’s senior paper conservator, Simona
Calza; and Costantino D’Orazio, art historian and curator of Artemisia Gentileschi,
Courage and Passion at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.
Thank you to all who enthusiastically participated in the ‘Palace Women’ project
as artisans, photographers, tour guides, educators and otherwise, with special
mention to institutional partners the British Institute in Florence and Il Palmerino
Cultural Association, as well as co-sponsors Alice Vogler and Donna Malin.
With the exhibition Artemisia in the Museum of Michelangelo drawing to a close,
we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to ‘Artemisia UpClose’ co-sponsor
Christian Levett and to Casa Buonarroti’s Museum Director Alessandro Cecchi
and Foundation President Cristina Acidini. Grazie mille also to designer Massimo
Chimenti and his team at Culturanuova for creating the perfect showpiece for our
‘Artemisia UpClose’ project. We are delighted that part of this exhibition will carry
on in Genoa.
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