Jane Fortune

The book's second edition, reprinted three years later with 13 additional chapters, is entitled To Florence, Con Amore: 90 Ways to Love the City (The Florentine Press, 2011).

[5] Fortune's subsequent books, documentaries, and essays were influenced largely by her efforts to safeguard and promote art by women artists.

[11] Since Fortune founded the Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA) in 2009, it has carried out several restoration projects for drawings, paintings, and sculptures by women artists in Florence from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries including Dominican convent painter Suor Plautilla Nelli at the San Salvi's Last Supper Museum,[12] eighteenth-century Florentine poet-painter Irene Parenti Duclos at the Accademia Gallery[13] and nineteenth-century French sculptor Félicie de Fauveau in Santa Croce, and Santa Maria del Carmine.

[14] The foundation also sponsors exhibitions, conference, seminars, books, and documentaries to promote the achievements of historic women artists, in addition to safeguarding their work.

[19] She endowed the Jane Fortune Outstanding Women Visiting Artist Lecture at Herron School of Art and Design.

Past lecturers have been Eleanor Antin, Maria Magdalena Compos-Pons, Judy Chicago, Judith Shea, Audrey Flack, Betty Woodman, and Polly Apfelbaum.

[20] In 2010, Fortune was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Indiana University for her work as an author and philanthropist in the United States and Italy.