Save Venice is proud to announce the publication of the volume Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750: Uncovering the Female Presence. This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

The collection represents the first fruits of Save Venice’s Women Artists of Venice (WAV) research program, directed by Professor Tracy Cooper of Temple University, in conjunction with a conservation program, led by Melissa Conn, Director of the Venice Office of Save Venice.

Inspired by a growing body of research that has resurrected female artists and artisans in Florence and Bologna during the last decade, Save Venice’s WAV program seeks to recover the history of women artists and artisans born or active in the Venetian republic in the early modern period. Topics include their contemporary reception — or historical silence — and current scholarship positioning them as individuals and as an underrepresented category in the history of art and cultural heritage.

The volume was published in September 2024 by Amsterdam University Press. The digital edition is available, for free, through Open Access at the following link: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93044
The print edition can be ordered through Amsterdam University Press and Amazon.com within the United States.