Women Artists of the 1900s PINCHERLE and PACINI Twentieth-century Women Painters in

Events Calendar 2016

EXHIBITION INAUGURATION ADRIANA PINCHERLE. THE COLORS OF AN ARTIST Book launch: Pincherle and Pacini: Twentieth-century Woman Painters in Florence Wednesday, May 11 at 5pm - Palazzo del Pegaso, Consiglio regionale della Toscana – Via Cavour 4, Florence From May 12 to May 29 (Monday to Friday from 10am to 12pm and 3pm to 7pm)

Speakers: Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Linda Falcone, Director of the Advancing Women Artists Foundation Gloria Manghetti, Director of Florence’s Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux Lucia Mannini and Chiara Toti, Art historians and exhibit curators EXHIBITION INAUGURATION ART AND MEMORY. ADRIANA PINCHERLE AND ELOISA PACINI Thursday, May 12 at 6pm - Villa il Palmerino – Via del Palmerino 6, Florence From May 13 to June 10 (Monday to Saturday from 3pm to 7.30pm or by appointment)

Speakers: Cristina Acidini, President of Florence’s Accademia delle Arti del Disegno Corrado Marcetti, Director of the Giovanni Michelucci Foundation Lucia Mannini and Chiara Toti, Art historians and exhibit curators

ARTIST COUPLES: PASSION, COMPLICITY AND COMPETITION Thursday, May 19 at 6pm - Villa il Palmerino – Via del Palmerino 6, Florence

Marilena Mosco, Art historian and critic The author will present her book spotlighting artist couples united by art and the pursuit of parallel paths such as Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar or Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. This emotional and artistic relationship was also fundamental to the lives of Eloisa Pacini and the architect Giovanni Michelucci, and Adriana Pincherle and the painter Onofrio Martinelli.

PORTRAITS AS RECOGNITION: THREE WRITERS THROUGH THE EYES OF ADRIANA PINCHERLE Thursday, May 26 at 6pm - Villa il Palmerino – Via del Palmerino 6, Florence

Beatrice Manetti, Docent of Contemporary Italian Literature, University of Torino This literary journey centers around Adriana Pincherle’s portraits of women writers—personal friends who became the subject of study and observation. Pincherle’s sitters, Elsa Morante, Anna Banti and Gianna Manzini, were all key players on the Florentine and Italian intellectual scene. ELOISA PACINI AND VAMBA’S GIORNALINO DELLA DOMENICA (1911-1925) Thursday, May 31 at 6pm - Villa il Palmerino – Via del Palmerino 6, Florence

Andrea Greco, Journalist and Writer with the Archivio Fotografico Toscano A look at the most important weekly publication for children in in the early 1930s, written and produced by up-and- coming protagonists of Italian literature and art. In her youth, Eloisa was an avid contributor to the journal. Research on her family archive reveals the artist’s passion and commitment, thanks to the correspondence she shared with Vamba and other renowned individuals.

AMELIA PINCHERLE ROSSELLI. FROM THEATER TO CIVIL COMMITMENT Monday, June 6 at 6pm - Villa il Palmerino – Via del Palmerino 6, Firenze

Maria Alberti, Professor of the History of Performance Arts Sandra Landi, Writer and essayist In collaborazione con l’Associazione Culturale Intexere An introduction to the extraordinary Amelia Pincherle Rosselli, Adriana Pincherle’s aunt and mother to Carlo and Nello Rosselli. She is also the grandmother of the famous poetess, her namesake. Amelia was the first woman playwright to debut in top Italian theaters. She always actively participated in public life, flanking her sons in the fight against the fascist dictatorship and waging her own battle for women’s rights.

DISCOVERING THE GABINETTO G.P. VIEUSSEUX GUIDED TOUR WITH DIRECTOR GLORIA MANGHETTI Tuesday, June 7 at 3.30pm - Palazzo Corsini Suarez – via Maggio 42, Florence This guided tour takes visitors through the Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux, located in the fourteenth-century Palazzo Corsini Suarez. Home to the Archivio A. Bonsanti, it’s a treasure trove of 150 personal archives including photographic, literary and artistic documents gifted by some of the twentieth century’s luminaries. Visitors will appreciate the center’s Reading Room featuring a collection of portraits by painter Adriana Pincherle as well as a tour of other areas not generally open to the public. Reservations required. Email: [email protected] –Tel: 055/290131-32.

A STUDIO WITH A VIEW, THE GIOVANNI MICHELUCCI FOUNDATION GUIDED TOUR WITH DIRECTOR CORRADO MARCETTI Thursday, June 9 at 3.30pm - Villa il Roseto – via Beato Angelico 15, Fiesole Today, the villa in Fiesole that once belonged to the architect Giovanni Michelucci and his wife, painter Eloisa Pacini, is home to a Foundation that bears the architect’s name. Visitors are sure to appreciate the building itself, in addition to the library’s volumes, drawings and the architect’s models. The Foundation also hosts the majority of Pacini’s oeuvre, exhibited a family- style environment and in harmony with her husband’s works. Reservations required. Email: [email protected] – Tel: 339 8944725.