The Curators’ Quaderno - The Search for Violante
The Search for Violante in Florence. Issue 5 of The Curators’ Quaderno follows the restoration of three devotional paintings attributed to eighteenth-century painter Violante Siries, at Certosa di Firenze, a vast monastery in Tuscany. Violante’s Reading Madonna, a rare, highly damaged altarpiece is a mysterious commission for a Grand Tour female artist, even of her calibre. Conservators and scholars embark on a multi-faceted search for these paintings’ attributions. They scour the archives and safeguard the paintings’ future in a restoration laboratory in the Santa Croce district, to determine whether these attributions match the painter’s hand. The Curators’ Quaderno is a collection of notebook-style publications, conceived by Calliope Arts, in collaboration with The Florentine and Restoration Conversations, to raise awareness of women’s contributions to the fields of art, science and culture.
The Search for Violante in Florence. Issue 5 of The Curators’ Quaderno follows the restoration of three devotional paintings attributed to eighteenth-century painter Violante Siries, at Certosa di Firenze, a vast monastery in Tuscany. Violante’s Reading Madonna, a rare, highly damaged altarpiece is a mysterious commission for a Grand Tour female artist, even of her calibre. Conservators and scholars embark on a multi-faceted search for these paintings’ attributions. They scour the archives and safeguard the paintings’ future in a restoration laboratory in the Santa Croce district, to determine whether these attributions match the painter’s hand.
The Curators’ Quaderno is a collection of notebook-style publications, conceived by Calliope Arts, in collaboration with The Florentine and Restoration Conversations, to raise awareness of women’s contributions to the fields of art, science and culture.
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the
curators’
quaderno
The restoration and awareness-raising project
featured in this edition of tcq, known as ‘Accademia
Women: Violante’, was organised by the Accademia
delle Arti del Disegno (AADFI) and Syracuse
University in Florence, and sponsored by the
Advancing Women Artists Legacy Fund. The
project involved the restoration of three paintings
attributed to eighteenth-century artist Violante
Siriès Cerroti at the monastery of San Lorenzo al
Monte in Galluzzo (Certosa di Firenze) and included
a grant for research and video documentation.
This publication comprises reflections on project
goals and findings, presented at the seminar for
sector experts and the general public at the AADFI
on 3 June 2025.
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The support of seven women made this legacy
project possible: Connie Clark, Pam Fortune,
Nancy Galliher, Nancy Hunt, Donna Malin, Margie
MacKinnon and Alice Vogler. With special thanks to
the Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Art and
Landscape for the Metropolitan City of Florence
and the Provinces of Pistoia and Prato (SABAP),
the San Leolino Community at Certosa di Firenze
and media partners The Florentine, Calliope Arts
Foundation and Restoration Conversations.
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