It describes the city as a center for women court artists[6] in the Baroque period as exemplified by the teacher-student succession of Giovanna Fratellini, Violante Siries Cerroti, and Anna Bacherini Piattoli.
Other chapters highlight painters granted the honor of displaying their self-portrait in the Vasari Corridor such as the Venetian Giulia Lama, the first woman known to draw and study the male nude from a live model, and Marietta Robusti, the daughter of Tintoretto who was often called "La Tintoretta."
Fortune focuses on six specific buildings in Florence including the Marucelliana Library, the Last Supper Museum of Andrea del Sarto, and the Gallery of Modern Art in the Pitti Palace.
Other chapters include work on Sofonisba Anguissola whose admirers included Michelangelo and Anthony van Dyck; Lavinia Fontana, the first female painter in Western Europe to reach the same level of professional acclaim as her male contemporaries; Artemisia Gentileschi who created large-scale images of heroines; and seventeenth-century pastelist Rosalba Carriera known for her Rococo style and flattering portraits of the wealthy.
The documentary illustrates main themes featured in the book along with additional interviews with the Advancing Women Artists Foundation team, restoration experts, and executives from several museums in the United States and from the Polo Museale Florentino.