"Now that you have a room of your own and the children havegrown a bit, will you be painting some?" wrote Fillide Levasti to fellow artistLeonetta Cecchi in 1920. "If so, now is the time for the lovely part tobegin!". Two early twentieth-century women painters and their moving personalletters, hosted at the Marucelliana Library and the Vieusseux's Contemporary Archive, have inspired a citywide project for art, restoration and research whose keynote exhibition Women Artists. Florence 1900-1950 is a sign of their times. In a Florence filled with female sculptors, painters, illustrators and writers, Cecchi and Levasti formed part of a fascinating network of creative friendships. Together with other equally determined women - Evelyn Scarampi, Vittoria Morelli, Flavia Arlotta, Elisabeth Chaplin, Marisa Mori, Adriana Pincherle and Elena Salvaneschi - they comprise a formidable legacy that spans literature and the visual arts, crossing boundaries from painting to page. With their stories recovered and their art restored, theirs has finally become a journey from storage to spotlight.