during Florence's brief time as the Italian capital city during 1870 is located outside of Florence and is the home to some of Fratellini's best known works in pastel. Also many of her works are pending restoration or maintenance and can be found in the Uffizi’s deposits. A large number of her pastels that were commissioned by the Medici family are located there in the Uffizi’s portrait collection. Teacher and mentor The Tuscan artists welcomed her. Throughout Fratellini’s lifetime she shared her artistic expertise with several female painters, most notably, Maria Maddalena Gozzi Baldacci and Violante Beatrice Siries Cerroti, a Florentine painter who was named after the patroness and princess. Violante Beatrice Siries took Fratellini’s place as court painter after her death. Self-Portrait Fratellini’s self-portrait, depicting herself in the act of painting, “Self Portrait”, 1720 is in the Uffizi Gallery. It is displayed in the Vasari Corridor. Although she is shown holding oil paints and working on a miniature portrait painting, the work is completed in pastel. She portrays herself as an attractive and lively middle-aged woman. She is seen with energy and charm. Fratellini's signature elements fluttering ribbons are spryly worn. In the painting she can be seen working on a portrait of her son Lorenzo Fratellini. Tragically, Lorenzo died two years before Fratellini. Along with her son, Lorenzo, Fratellini taught Violante Beatrice Siries. On television The Emmy-winning PBS television documentary (June, 2013) Invisible Women, Forgotten Artists of Florence, based on Dr. Jane Fortune's book by the same title, features a segment on Giovanna Fratellini as an example of women artists teaching other women in Baroque Florence. The television special, which spotlights the thousands of works by women in storage in Florence's museums including many of Fratellini's pastels and portraiture, reveals the ‘creative ties and artistic succession between artists Giovanna Fratellini, Violante Siries Cerroti and Anna Bacherini Piattoli.' References Further reading An Enamelled Portrait by Giovanna Fratellini, Marvin Chauncey Ross. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 89, No. 536 (Nov., 1947), pp. 314+316-317 Grove Encyclopedia of Art, abstract. Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits, Frances Borzello, p. 62. 1666 births 1731 deaths 17th-century Italian painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence Italian Baroque painters Portrait miniaturists Italian women painters 18th-century Italian women artists 17th-century Italian women artists