Mirella Bentivoglio (1922, Klagenfurt, Austria - 2017, Rome) was a poet and verbal-visual artist. Thanks to her parents Margherita Cavalli and the scientist Ernesto Bertarelli, she received a multilingual education, studying in German-speaking Switzerland and England, earning Proficiency diplomas in English at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge. In 1949, she married university lecturer [...]
Category Archives: Women in art
Laura Cherubini (1954, Rome) is a well-known Italian art historian and independent curator. A student of Giulio Carlo Argan and Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, she graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome with Maurizio Calvesi. She immediately integrates academic study with practice: already in her first year of university she found herself in the studio of [...]
Ilaria Bignotti (1979, Brescia) is a PhD in Theories and History of the Arts and an independent curator. Much of her professional career is linked to the scientific curatorship of artists' archives, where she is currently scientific curator of the Paolo Scheggi Archive Association, the Antonio Scaccabarozzi Archive Association and scientific director of the Francesca Pasquali Archive. Among [...]
Esthella Provas is a leading art advisor who has held several key roles in the contemporary art world over the past twenty years. She is currently President and Principal Art Advisor of Esthella Provas & Associates, an art advisory company that provides exhibition and consulting services to individuals and companies with a high level of professionalism. [...]
Barbara Guggenheim (1946, Philadelphia, USA) is one of the world's most renowned art consultants and art advisors.Barbara grew up in Woodbury, New Jersey, the daughter of a clothing shop owner. After earning a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University, she worked at the world's most renowned auction houses: [...]
Maria Brito is an award-winning art advisor, author and curator originally from Caracas, Venezuela. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 2000, she moved to New York, where she pursued a career as a corporate lawyer and began collecting contemporary art. After about eight years of practicing law and acquiring artwork, [...]
Pseudonym of Gaetana Emilia Aulenti, Gae Aulenti (Palazzolo dello Stella, 4 December 1927 - Milan, 31 October 2012) is a designer and architect interested in the idea of architectural restoration. After graduating from Milan Polytechnic in 1953, she trained in a Milan where architecture sought to recover the values of the past in a historical and cultural key and moved [...]
Born Achillina Bo (Rome, 5 December 1914 - São Paulo, 20 March 1992), Lina Bo Bardi was an Italian architect who later moved to Brazil, a spokesperson for the social and cultural relevance of architecture and design. After graduating in architecture from the University of Rome, she moved to Milan where she began working at Studio Bo [...]
Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 31 October 1950 - Miami, 31 March 2016) was a naturalised British Iraqi architect and designer. Born in Baghdad, she studied architecture and pure mathematics in Beirut and later in London. She taught architecture for seven years at the Architectural Association and became a member of the OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). She is remembered, [...]
Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (Enniscorthy, Ireland, 9 August 1878 - Paris, 31 October 1976) was an Irish designer and architect, considered the pioneer of the "International Style" aesthetic. Her father James, a painter, took her with him to Italy and Switzerland and made her fond of art and painting. She studied drawing and painting in London in [...].