Women and the Flood
In 1966, flooded paintings were ‘hospitalized’ in the ancient Medici greenhouse at Pitti’s Limonaia and experts watched in horror as waterlogged works shrunk before their very eyes. Zeffirelli’s on-location film Per Firenze documented the disaster and it was ‘Per Firenze’ that artists from all over the globe gifted their works to “replace” the 14,000 paintings and sculptures lost in the deluge. The international appeal was answered by myriad female artists from Carla Accardi and Titina Maselli, to Daphne Maugham Casorati, Edita Broglio and Antonietta Raphael Mafai.
