Art by Women in Florence: A Guide through Five Hundred Years
Jane Fortune L.H.D. is founder and chair of Advancing Women Artists and The Florence Committee, two not-for-profit organizations dedicated to researching, restoring, and exhibiting works of art by women in Florence. Author of Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence and To Florence, Con Amore: 90 Ways to Love the City, Dr. Fortune is also cultural editor of The Florentine, Tuscany s English-language newspaper. In 2010, she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Indiana University. As a philanthropist and art collector, she has served on several museum boards and is currently on the Board of Governors of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Additionally, she is on the National Advisory Board of both the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Indiana University Art Museum and on the Board of Trustees of the Medici Archives Project, where she has endowed a pilot program dedicated to researching women artists in the age of the Medici. Author of Italians Dance and I m a Wallflower, Moving Days and If They Are Roses: the Italian Way with Words, Linda Falcone has been a columnist with The Florentine since the newspaper s founding in 2005. As lecturer and adjunct professor of Italian Culture and Travel Writing for various American university programs in Florence and Venice, she has lived and taught in Italy for two decades. In 2010, she began serving as Director of the Advancing Women Artists Foundation. In addition to coordinating the Foundation s projects and events, she carries out much of the on-site research linked to works by female artists in Florence s museums.