… her teacher advised her to tip all her art materials into the sea…

Many of Liberty’s artists were commissioned as freelancers, selling their designs to appear under the Liberty trademark without their names appearing on the finished product.

The King and Queen popped round constantly…

it is about relationships, many of which were begun at art school, and which were to prove long-lasting.

In 1569 she had the signal honour of seeing her altarpiece of St Thomas Villanuova carried in solemn procession around the streets of Bologna before it was formally blessed and installed in the church of San Giacomo Maggiore.