A lecture by Federica Parretti and Linda Falcone
In 1935, Lola Costa purchased Il Palmerino, and set up her painting studio there. Until a few months before Lola moved her family there, it was home to English writer Vernon Lee and haunt to Florence’s ‘English community’ – from Henry James and Oscar Wilde to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf.
An English city girl with a French education, Lola learned to keep the estate alive and continued its vocation as a place for cultural exchange through her own art and interest in Vernon Lee scholarship. Lola was the ‘signora’ behind the easel painting her farm labourers, but she would stop mixing colours to help with the harvest.
Federica Parretti, he current custodian of Il Palmerino, will discuss her grandmother’s life and art in conversation with Linda Falcone.
If you are in Florence and would like to attend the lecture in person at the British Institute Library, please register here or send an email to bif@britishinstitute.it
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This event is sponsored by Calliope Arts and forms part of a larger 3-year programme: “A Florentine Garden: Early Women Expats and Artists of Today”, organised by Calliope Arts and Il Palmerino Cultural Association, in collaboration with the British Institute of Florence.