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Artist honors forgotten female alchemists with monumental exhibition in war-scarred Milan ballroom

(3 Feb 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Milan, Italy - 3 February 2026 1. Pan right of artworks by Anselm Kiefer on display as part of his “The Women Alchemists” exhibition at Milan’s Palazzo Reale, in the so-called hall Sala delle Cariatidi 2. Close of painting 3. Tilt up of paintings titled “E.H.” 4. Pull focus from closeup of painting to painting titled "Susanna von Klettemberg" 5. Woman taking pictures in front of series of paintings titled, from left to right: “Sophie Elisabeth von Clermont,” “Lapis Niger,” “Isabella d’Aragona,” and “Anne Conway” 6. Various of painting titled “Alethea Talbot Howard” 7. Artist Anselm Kiefer arriving to talk to journalists 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anselm Kiefer, artist: “Women were the most important alchemists, they did medicine, they did… they transformed metals into other things, they did all what men did, even better.” 9. Pan left pull focus from close of painting to the painting titled “Marie Meurdrac” 10. Close of painting titled “Sabine Stuart de Chevalier” 11. Various of visitor looking at artworks 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Anselm Kiefer, artist: “You know, for me it’s more a kind of thinking, alchemy that all changes, that you can combine things and something else comes up and you are surprised all the time. That’s alchemy.” 13. Kiefer surrounded by journalists 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Anselm Kiefer, artist: “But each artist is an alchemist, because it’s about to be surprised, if I’m not surprised I don’t continue, so I do different conditions together and then something comes out but I don’t, can’t see before. But you know, mathematicians, physicists, they do this too, they invent something and they don’t know if they put the formula in the reality what it will be, you know.” 15. Close of painting titled “Lady Margaret Clifford of Cumberland” 16. Visitor taking a photo in front of painting of “Lady Margaret Clifford of Cumberland” 17. Various of exhibition 18. Woman taking a photo of painting and walls of the hall called “Sala delle Cariatidi” 19. Close-up tilt down of Caryatid 20. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gabriella Belli, Exhibition curator: “It is a unique exhibition of 40 large paintings of very big dimensions, more than 860 square meters of paint on canvas, realized using a mix of traditional painting techniques and so many alchemical materials. They represent 38 figures, who were real, they either existed in history or of which we have certain proof.” 21. Banner for the exhibition “The Women Alchemist” outside the Palazzo Reale 22. Various exteriors of Palazzo Reale main entrance 23. Pan left from exhibition posters hanging above entrance to Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games countdown clock to the start of the games 24. Close of countdown clock STORYLINE: German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer pays tribute to one of Milan’s most majestic yet melancholy spaces inside Palazzo Reale with the site-specific exhibition titled “The Women Alchemists,’’ previewed on Tuesday as part of the city’s cultural programming for the 2026 Winter Olympics The artist was inspired by the crumbling caryatids, or sculpted female figures that served as architectural supports, inside the palace’s Sala delle Cariatidi, a ceremonial hall severely damaged in a 1943 Allied bombing during World War II. Kiefer said he was immediately inspired by the room and the fragmented female figures, left as a memorial to the destruction of war. "They represent 38 figures, who were real, they either existed in history or of which we have certain proof,” she added. AP video by Andrea Roda Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...