Vase with Carnations and Shells on a Table: This gouache on vellum piece is one of the twenty still-life miniatures that Garzoni produced for the Medici family from the years 1650–1662. The piece depicts carnations, conch shells, as well as a basket of fruit. Due to her work for the Medici Court, Garzoni became a favorite within the Florentine court for her depictions of nature and botanical subjects. It is now located in the Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay Collection in Washington, DC. Two important manuscript notebooks by Garzoni exist. The rare books library in Washington DC, Dumbarton Oaks, contains a self-portrait of the elderly artist, in addition to a number of botanical studies. Another album, held by the Accademia di San Luca, the artists' institute to which Garzoni left her estate, includes flower studies and still lifes. Personal life It is believed by historians that Garzoni never married, but others speculate that the artist was once married to Venetian portrait painter Tiberio Tinelli in 1622. If so, the marriage was short lived, possibly resulting in separation in 1624. Death In 1666, Garzoni devised a will that left her estate to the Church of Santa Martina, the church of the Accademia di San Luca on the basis that she would be buried in the church. Garzoni died in Rome in February 1670 at the age of 70. Today, Garzoni's tomb remains at the Church of Santa Martina but it was not interred there until 1698, nearly 29 years after her death. Roman painter Giuseppe Ghezzi's portrait of Garzoni is also located at the Accademia. Exhibitions “La grandezza del universo” nell'arte di Giovanna Garzoni / "The immensity of the universe" in the art of Giovanna Garzoni, Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Andito degli Angiolini, 28 May - 28 June 2020, exhib. cat. edited by Sheila Barker. Le Signore dell’Arte. Storie di donne tra ’500 e ’600, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 02.03.2021 to 22.08.2021, curated by Anna Maria Bava, Gioia Mori and Alain Tapié, exhib. cat published by Skira. By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, Wadsworth Atheneum and the Detroit Institute of Arts, September 30, 2021 – January 9, 2022, exhib. cat Yale University Press, edited by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer and Oliver Tostmann References Sources Ferraro, Joanne M. Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Fortune, Jane, and Linda Falcone. Invisible Women. (Florence: The