The Course Register 2000
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Alexander Bainbridge, Toby Barnett, Lauretta Barrow, Emma Barttelot, Anna Berntson, Amanda Bissell, Alice Buckee, Amelia Calvert, Dominic Clyde-Smith, Emma Cook, Henrietta Craig, Catherine Cullinan, Charlie Damerell, Sophia Dawnay, Benjamin Ducas, Alice Engel, Astrid Fahie, William Ferguson, Desmond Fitzgerald, Anna Fremantle, Leo Geddes, Benjamin Goldkorn, Sophie Goodhew, Katie Gordon, Sophie Gray, Belinda Heskett, Jess Hill, Alexandra Hughes, Adela Hussain, Julia Kirkman, Kirsten Lantelme, Joanna Mann, Anna Meier, Leonie New, Ruth Parker, Zakary Pashak, Charlotte Payne, Rupert Pelly, Catherine Phillips, Claudia Renton, William Ritchie, Skye Rutherford, Matilda Salmon, Edward Short, Peter Simon, Hugh Sington, Camilla Stopford Sackville, James True, Tilly Upton.
Record of Past Programme
The Pre-University Course
Spring
January 24 – March 23
Director: John Hall
Accommodation
Venice. Hotel Messner
Florence. Hotel Maxim
Rome. Pensione Lydia Venier
Lectures: Istituto Artigianelli
Lecturers and Syllabus
John Allison B.Mus., Ph.D. Co-editor of Opera Magazine. Music critic for The Times. Author of Edward Elgar: Sacred Music and The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Companion to Opera
Opera
Rossini: crossing the boundaries; Verdi: operatic giant; Puccini and his world; Wagner and his ‘total art world’; the 20th century opera as a modern art form; Venice in music.
Chantal Brotherton-Radcliffe M.A. Edinburgh, Ph.D. Warburg Institute, teaches for Sotheby’s Works of Art Course, specialising in Venetian Painting
How to look at a painting
Louisa Buck M.A. Cambridge, M.A. Courtauld Institute. Journalist, broadcaster and art critic. Reviewer for Radio 4’s Kaleidoscope. Author of Moving Targets: A Users Guide to British Art Now published by Tate Gallery Publications
Modern art
Abstract art: the birth of Modernism; Dada and Surrealism: order out of anarchy; pop art and pop culture: consumerism celebrated; modern art in Venice: the artistic life and loves of Peggy Guggenheim and the role of the Venice Biennale; art now: pushing back the boundaries.
Tom Dewe Mathews Writer, journalist and broadcaster on film. Author of Censored: The Story of Film Censorship in Britain and a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Evening Standard and Sight and Sound
Italian cinema
An overview; neo- realism 1945 – 55; the Golden Age 1960 – 70: Fellini, Visconti and Pasolini; back to the future – cinema now.
Gregory Dowling M.A. (Oxon.) Teaches at the University of Venice, has written thrillers set in Italy and England, translator
English poets and Italy
Shelley; Keats and Romanticism; Byron in Venice; Browning in Italy; the literary image of Venice
David Ekserdjian Ph.D. Editor of Apollo Magazine. Author of Correggio (Yale University Press, 1997)
Renaissance art in Venice
Giotto in Padua; Giovanni Bellini; Giorgione; Titian; Veronesse and Tintoretto
Charles Hope M.A., D.Phil. Senior lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, London University. Formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University. An organiser of the ‘Genius of Venice’ exhibition at the Royal Academy, author of Titian and other publications
Renaissance art and history; Renaissance art and criticism
Iconography
The altarpiece; religious narratives; history, ancient and modern; mythology and allegory; Veronese and secular decoration in Venice.
Deborah Howard M.A Cambridge, Ph.D. Courtauld Institute, FSA, FSA Scot., Hon FRIAS. Reader in Architectural History and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Author of Jacopo Sansovino: architecture and patronage in Renaissance Venice and The Architectural History of Venice
Venetian Architecture
Venice’s amphibious townscape; Venice and the East; Ruskin’s Venice; ritual space in Renaissance Venice; the plague and its impact on the city.
Jeremy Howard Lecturer in Art History at the University of Buckingham. He studied Italian Renaissance Art at Courtauld Institute and spent 15 years working in the London art market, first at Christie’s and later at Colnaghi’s. He has published many articles on aspects on18th and 19th century collecting with particular reference to The Grand Tour
The Grand Tour
Geoffrey Humphries Portrait-figure artist, has lived in Venice for 30 years and exhibited throughout Europe
Life drawing classes and portraiture classes
Dick Kingzett Director of Agnew’s, art dealers, joined Christie’s 1947; joined Agnew’s 1950; became partner 1955. Author of Catalogue Raisonne on Samuel Scott for the Walpole Society. Advisor for the National Heritage Lottery Fund
The art trade
Peter Lauritzen M.A. Resident in Venice since 1967, author of Palaces of Venice, Venice: 1,000 years of Culture and Civilization, The Islands and Lagoons of Venice, and UNESCO report: Venice Restored, editor at large of Architectural Digest
Venetian History (1); (2). Restoration in Venice Venetian palaces Palladio
Visit to San Giorgio Maggiore and Palladian villas in the Veneto, Villa Cornaro, Villa Emo at Fanzolo, Villa Barbaro at Maser.
Christopher Lloyd M.A., B.Litt. Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures
The art collection of Charles1
Lord McAlpine Active in the worlds of commerce, the arts and wildlife. Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990 and Deputy Chairman 1979 to 1983. He is a regular columnist for The European, World Interiors, Building Magazine and many national papers in Britain. Has published numerous books, including Journal of a Collector (Pavilion Books) 1993
Collecting
Richard MacKenney Ph.D., Reader in History, Edinburgh University. Author of Tradesmen and traders: the world of the guilds in Venice and Europe 1250-1650 (1987) and Sixteenth Century Europe (1993)
The Italian contribution to Western civilisation
David Newbold M.A. (Oxon.), M.A. (Reading) Linguistics, teaches English at University of Verona, author of English language teaching materials, education broadcaster, journalist, correspondent in Italy for The Times Educational Supplement
Italian schools and universities
Paula Nuttall Ph.D. Courtauld Institute. Course tutor for Medieval and Renaissance Year Course, Victoria and Albert Museum. Also lectures for Birkbeck College and Courtauld Summer School. Has published several studies on the influence of early Netherlandish painting in Italy
The classical language of architecture
How to look at a painting
Hugh Palmer Freelance photographer specialising in landscape and architectural subjects, working for book and magazine publishers in Europe and the United States. Currently illustrating the travel book series The Most Beautiful Villages for Thames and Hudson
Photography classes
Louise Palomba Associate Director at the Richard Rogers Partnership, architects responsible for the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Lloyds Building, London and the new Millennium Project at Greenwich
Architecture today
Nicholas Penny Ph.D. Clore Curator of Renaissance Art, National Gallery. Formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford and Keeper of Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Books include Raphael (with Roger Jones), Taste and the Antique (with Francis Haskell). Responsible for organising exhibitions and catalogues of numerous artists, including Reynolds
How the National Gallery works
Raphael and his influence
From Perugino to Leonardo; nature and antiquity; competing with Michelangelo; Correggio and Titian; the orders and the classical.
Peter Phillips M.A. Well-known broadcaster and conductor, Professor of Music, Royal College of Music, founder of the Tallis Scholars (Gramophone Record of the Year Award 1987), music critic The Spectator. Publisher of The Musical Times
The tradition of classical music in Europe
Chant in the Western tradition; Renaissance polyphony; Monteverdi and the Venetian revolution; the contribution of Bach and Handel; the creation of the modern orchestra.
Penny Sparke Ph.D. Senior tutor in History of Design at the Royal College of Art. Author of among other books, Italian Design 1870 to the Present. She is a regular contributor to international design magazines and frequently broadcasts on the subject
Modern Italian design
Nicholas True CBE, M.A. former Whitgift Research Student, Peterhouse, Cambridge in the field of Byzantine Studies. Publications on Byzantium
Byzantine art
The origins of Byzantine style – Ravenna; the golden age of Byzantium; Byzantium and Venice; Torcello and San Marco.
Caroline Villers B.A. Oxford, M.A. Courtauld Institute, Diploma in Conservation, Courtauld Institute, lecturer in conservation of paintings, Courtauld Institute
Painting techniques
Tempera – the craft of painting; oil painting and individuality; Impressionism: new materials; conservation and restoration of easel paintings.
Rosella Zorzi Professor in American Literature, University of Venice, Director, Societa Dante Alighieri, Venice
Ezra Pound
Visit to Ravenna – Sant’Apollinare in Classe; San Vitale; Tomb of Galla Placidia; Orthodox Baptistry; museums; Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
Visit to Padua – the Scrovegni Chapel – Giotto; the Erimitani – Mantegna; the Santo – Donatello; the Scuola del Santo – Titian
Florence
Charles Cecil
Art classes
Matteo Sansone Ph.D. (Edin) is an expert on operatic literature and his special field is late 19th century Italian opera on which he has published several studies. He runs the opera courses at the British Institute of Florence
The Mozart-Da Ponte operas
Francine Van Hertsen M.A. Art History (Louvre, Paris), Diploma of Institute of Painting Conservation, Florence, Art History teacher, Chief Restorer of the frescoes of S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Introduction to Florence. Florentine Architecture and Sculpture; visits to Museo del Opera del Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, Bargello, Baptistry, Duomo, San Lorenzo (Brunelleschi), Santa Croce and Pazzi Chapel. Florentine Painting; visits to Uffizi Gallery, Santa Maria Novella, Santa Felicita, Santo Spirito, Carmini; Fra Angelico and Michelangelo; visits to San Marco and Accademia.
Visit to Gardens of Villa Gamberaia at Settignano
Rome
Joachim Strupp Ph.D. (St. Andrew) Lecturer in History of Art and Heritage Management at the University of Buckingham and his special field is Italian Renaissance Sculpture on which he has published several studies
Visits to the monument to Vittorio Emmanuele, Capitole, SS.Martina e Luca, Forum Romanum, Palatine, Fora of the Emperors, Colosseum, S.Clemente, S. Pietro in Vincoli. Piazza Barbarini, Fontana del Tritone, Piazza di Spagna and the Spanish Steps, Piazza del Popolo and S. Maria del Popolo (Caravaggio), Piazza Navona: Fountain of the Four Rivers (Bernini) and S. Agnes in Piazza Navona (Borromini), S. Maria della Pace, S. Luigi dei Francesi (Caravaggio).The Pantheon, Trevi Fountain and SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio. St. Peter’s Basilica.
Baroque Rome: Il Gesu, S. Andrea al Quirinale, S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, S. Maria della Vittoria, S. Susanna.
Private visits to Vatican Museums including the Apollo Belvedere and Laocoon statues, the Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Stanze.
Baroque Rome: Il Gesu, S. Ivo alla Sapienza (Borromini), S. Andrea al Quirinale (Bernini), S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Borromini), S. Maria della Vittoria (Bernini:Ecstasy of St. Theresa), S. Susanna (facade).
Villa D’Este and the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli.