The Course Register 2005
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Emily Armour, Rosalie Barkes, Amy Bartlett, Henrietta Burton, Sarah Castor-Perry, Orlando Compton, Jack Cooke, Shanaugh Darling, Annabel Dent, James Elwes, Edmund Fargher, Serena Foyle, Tatiana Gavriliouk, Charlotte Goodrich, Charlotte Harrison, Catherine Hunter, Charlotte Ingle, Veronika Kapustina, Isabelle Kettner, Oliver Knox, Leslie Lee, Alice Leighton, Henry Little, Sarah McMillan, Sarina Master, Charlotte Noble, Harriet Oliver, Paxton Pattee, Rose Proby, Emma Readman, Emily Rees Jones, Kate Reeves, Kimberly Ritter, Lucia Ruck Keene, Aimée Sajjan-Servaes, Odelia Simon, Kate Stephen, Jessie Shane, Siân Thomas, Margaret Thompson, Robert Townend, Stephanie Van Rappard, Fernande Van Tets, Georgianna Vaughan, Alexandra Walton, Edward Warner, Henry Warner, Camilla Watson, Perdita Weeks, Alastair Wright.
Record of Past Programme
The Pre-University Course
Spring
January 24 – March 24
Director: John Hall
Accommodation
Venice. Hotel Messner
Florence. Hotel Maxim
Rome. Hotel Tea
Lectures: Istituto Canossiano
Lecturers and Syllabus
Vicky Avery Ph.D. Fellow of the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, part-time lecturer at Cambridge, Warwick and Buckingham Universities
Visits throughout the city and lagoon islands
Chantal Brotherton-Radcliffe M.A. (Edin.), 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 Front Row. Author of Moving Targets: A Users Guide to British Art Now published by Tate Gallery Publications
Modern art – Body Matters
Edward Buscombe Former Head of Publishing at the British Film Institute. He has taught at many universities including New York, Columbia, Yale, Oxford, Sussex and King’s College, London. He is author of Cinema Today (Phaidon) 2003
Beyond Hollywood: world cinema
Art cinema: the heritage of Western Europe
French cinema since the new wave; a social cinema: contemporary Italian films; Spanish cinema since Franco; cinema across borders: the case of co-production; cinema in Northern Europe
Bruna Caruso Graduated in History of Art and Venice, works for the Superintendency of Art, teaches for the Hofstra University and Smithsonian Study Tours. She has written for various publications on Venetian art and architecture
Private visit to S. Marco
Gregory Dowling M.A. (Oxon.) Teaches at the University of Venice, has written thrillers set in Italy and England, translator
English poets in Italy
Byron in Venice; Shelley; Keats and Imagination; Browning and Italy; the literary image of Venice
Jill Dunkerton M.A. Restorer in the Conservation Department, National Gallery, London
Restoration of paintings
Jane Glover M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.) Conductor, broadcaster and writer
Mozart
A birthday celebration
Charles Hope M.A., D.Phil. Director of the 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
Iconography
Religious images; religious and secular narratives; mythology and allegory
Deborah Howard M.A Cambridge, Ph.D. Courtauld Institute, FSA, FSA Scot., Hon FRIAS. Professor of Architectural History and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. Head of Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge. Author of Jacopo Sansovino: architecture and patronage in Renaissance Venice, The Architectural History of Venice and Venice and the East
Venetian Architecture
Venice’s amphibious townscape; Venice and the East; Ruskin’s Venice; order and orders in Piazza San Marco; the plague and its impact on the city
Jeremy Howard M.A. (Oxon.), M.A. Courtauld Institute is a 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 of 18th and 19th Century collecting with particular reference to The Grand Tour
The Grand Tour
An introduction to Florence and on site visits
Geoffrey Humphries Portrait-figure artist, has lived in Venice for 30 years and exhibited throughout Europe
Life drawing classes and portraiture classes
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 picture collection of Charles1
Vivien Lovell B.A. FRSA, Hon FRIBA is a contemporary art curator specialising in the field of permanent and temporary public commissions. Director of Modus Operandi Art Consultants, formerly Founder Director of Public Art Commissions Agency. She was co-publisher of Public Art Space (Merrell Holberton) 1998
Public art today
Edward Lucie-Smith M.A., FRSL, Member of the Académie de Poésie Européenne, author of many books including Movements in Art since 1945, Art Today and Lives of the Great 20th Century Artists. He has recently published a monograph on the leading feminist artist Judy Chicago
Modern art
The beginnings of Modernism: Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism and Constructivism; the interwar years: Surrealism; art and dictatorship; the triumph of America: abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism; 1980s – the return of subject matter, the rainbow coalition of minority interests (i.e. feminism, African-American art, etc.); 1990s – post media and post pop, new classicism.
Richard MacKenney M.A., 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
Rodney Milnes Long-standing writer and broadcaster on opera. Editor of Opera Magazine 1985-1999. Chief opera critic of The Times
Opera – the all-embracing art
Handel: a genius restored to us; Rossini: the sly subversive; Verdi: the 19th Century Colossus; Wagner: a master of synthesis; Puccini: realism unleashed.
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. Began lecturing at the British Institute of Florence. Course tutor for Victoria and Albert Museum’s Medieval and Renaissance Year Course. Also teaches for Courtauld Institute and Christie’s. Her book From Flanders to Florence, the Impact of Netherlandish Painting was published by Yale in 2004
The classical language of architecture
Louise Palomba Associate Director at 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. Former Clore Curator of Renaissance Art, National Gallery and 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. Presently Senior Curator, European Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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. Artistic Director Oakham International Summer School
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.
Timothy Prus M.A. in Cultural Studies. Curator in 20th Century art, design and photography
Modern Italian design
Sarah Quill She has worked as a photographer in Venice for 25 years to create an extensive photographic archive of the city’s architecture, environment and daily life. Her book Ruskin’s Venice: the Stones Revisited was published in 2000
Photography classes
Susan Steer M.A., Ph.D. Part-time lecturer, University of Bristol. Currently ‘Neil Macgregor scholar’ for Glasgow University National Inventory Research Project based at the National Gallery
Visits throughout the city and lagoon islands
Joachim Strupp Ph.D. (St. Andrews). Has been Lecturer in History of Art at the Universities of Buckingham and St. Andrews for ten years and his special field is Italian Renaissance Sculpture on which he has published several studies. Now Fellow at the University of Buckingham and co-founder of Art Pursuits, which specialises in adult education and the organisation of cultural events
Renaissance art in Venice
Bellini; Giorgione; Tullio Lombardo; Titian; Tintoretto
Alexander Sturgis Ph.D. Courtauld Institute. Exhibition and Programme Curator at the National Gallery, organised exhibitions including Rembrandt by Himself and Telling Time. He was recently responsible for the re-hanging of the Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing which houses the paintings of the early Renaissance
Venetian paintings in the National Gallery (private visit)
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.
Richard Weihe M.Litt. (Oxon.) D.Phil. Writer, translator and lecturer in Theatre Studies Universities of Witten/Herdecke and Zurich. Publications Meer der Tusche (novella) and Die Paradoxie der Maske: Geschichte einer Form – a cultural history of the mask
The Venetian mask
Rosella Zorzi Professor in American Literature, University of Venice, Director, Societa Dante Alighieri, Venice
Henry James in Venice
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.) 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 Monteverdi operas
Jeremy Howard
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
Nigel McGilchrist M.A. (Oxon.) has lived and worked as an art historian in Rome for over twenty years. He has taught at Rome University and has been Director of the Anglo-Italian Institute and External Consultant to the Superintendence of Fine Arts of the Italian Government during that period. He lectures for a consortium of American Universities, teaching the history of painting techniques and materials. A frequent contributor to the arts page of The Times and a regular lecturer for the San Diego Museum of Art, California
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.