ARTNEWS
By Kate Brown
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| Elizabeth Wicks restores Violante Siries’s Madonna. Photo: Francesco Cacchiani. |
Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to ask the right question. That is exactly what Jane Fortune did on a visit to Florence 12 years ago. While touring the Renaissance city’s exquisite museums and fresco-covered churches, the American philanthropist began to wonder, “Where are the women?” Her search for an answer set Fortune on a passionate quest to restore the lost legacies and artworks of Florence’s forgotten female artists, digging into museums’ archives and dusty deposits with her organization,
Advancing Women Artists (AWA). [
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