Erased, Redrawn: Anna Bacherini Piattoli

By Vicki Cooke 2012

Kevin Thomas

Dimensions
50cm x 40cm

Piattoli (1720-1788) was trained in a female painting school in Florence. She married a painter and painted religious subjects as well as portraits and combined the two genres. Though little is known about the artist herself, several of her paintings are in the Florentine collections, including this self portrait that currently hangs in the Vasari corridor of the Uffizi. Prints are available to buy

Vicki Cooke

Fragments: Chiara Varotari

Fragment: Fratellini

Many women were making art in the 17th and 18th century, but much of their work has disappeared without a trace. How do we choose to remember the past when what we see is always incomplete? The ghosts of the forgotten are haunting, but through the action of drawing, they are remembered. Featuring in the series 'A Woman of Genius', rediscovering the lives of women artists. Fratellini ran a successful studio in Florence in the Baroque period and painted portraits and religious scenes.

Trace:Fratellini

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