The Course Register 2013
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Georgina Bagshawe, Camilla Beazley, Cosiima Benson-Colpi, Josephine Benthall, Susannah Bray, John Cheever, Dana Cohen, Luke Cooney, Flora Docherty, Laurel Escoll, Augusta Falconer, Elizabeth Galbraith, Camilla Garnier, Cassandra Gergely, Samuel Goldblatt, Harry Goodrich, Imogen Green, Rose Hussey, Albert Lindsell, Amelia Marran-Baden, Gwendolen Mitchell, Louis Murray Brown, Grace Osborne, Sybilla Pease, Max Tindley, Megan Townsend, Charlotte Voegeli, James Ward
Record of Past Programme
The John Hall Venice Course 2013
Spring
January 21 – March 22
Director: John Hall
Deputy Director: Charles Hall
Accommodation
Venice. Hotel Messner
Florence. Hotel Maxim
Rome. Hotel Smeraldo
Lectures:
· National Gallery, London
· Istituto Canossiano, Venice
Lecturers and Syllabus
KAREN ARMSTRONG Commentator on religious affairs, who has written extensively on all major religions. Her books include “A History of God”; “The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism”; and “The Spiral Staircase: A Memoir”. Chiefly known for her work on Islam, she has three times addressed members of the US Congress; is an ambassador for the Alliance of Civilizations at the United Nations; and a member of the World Economic Forum discussions on Islam and the West.
The Battle for God: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism
LOUISA BUCK MA Cambridge, MA 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 and “Owning Art: the Contemporary Art Collectors Handbook” Turner Prize Judge 2005. Contemporary Art Correspondent for The Art Newspaper and a regular contributor to Artforum, Vogue and The Guardian.
Body Matters: Representing the human figure in contemporary art
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 the Basilica
SIMON CONWAY-MORRIS is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge
Evolution and Religion: Mortal Enemies or secret friends? Darwin’s Compass: Why Humans are Inevitable
JANE DA MOSTO MA (Oxon.), MSc Imperial College London. Co-author of ‘The Science of Saving Venice’.
The Science of Saving Venice
GREGORY DOWLING MA (Oxon.), is Associate Professor of American Literature 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 MA, Restorer in the Conservation Dept., National Gallery, London. Author of numerous publications on restoration and the history of painting techniques.
Restoration of Paintings
Venetian paintings in the National Gallery (Private visits)
HUGH EDMEADES joined Christie’s in 1978 as a specialist in the Furniture Department. Became Director in 1984 and he is now Christie’s International Director of Auctioneering.
The Auction Challenge
CARLA FERRARO graduated in Italian Literature from Florence University. She has been teaching Italian to foreigners since her graduation: the United States, Milan, Salzburg, Venice at the Dante Alighieri. She has a European certificate as an examiner of CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) for the Italian Language. She lives and works in Venice.
RYAN GILBEY is film critic of the New Statesman, and was named Reviewer of the Year in the 2007 Press Gazette magazine awards. He contributes to the Sunday Times and the Guardian, and is the author of several film books, including It Don’t Worry Me.
Why we watch films
New waves: the European revolution of the 1950s and 1960s
Who’s the boss?
Getting from A to B via Z: Alternative ways of storytelling in cinema.
The Actor: Looking at different styles of film acting
Class War: British cinema since the 1950s
JANE GLOVER CBE, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), Conductor. Author of “Mozart’s Women” (Macmillan 2005)
Mozart: The Prodigy, Declaration of Independence & The Final Curtain
CHARLES HOPE MA, 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.
The Changing Functions of Art: Byzantium to Renaissance Italy
The Renaissance to Modern Times
The Italian contribution to Western civilisation
DEBORAH HOWARD MA Cambridge, MA & Ph.D, Courtauld Institute, FSA, FSA Scot., Hon. FRIAS and FRSE. Professor of Architectural History, Fellow of St John’s College and Head of the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge. Author of “Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice”, “The Architectural History of Venice”, “Venice and the East.”
Venetian Architecture: Venice and the East; John Ruskin and Venetian Gothic; Order and orders in Piazza San Marco; The Plague in Venice
JEREMY HOWARD MA (Oxon.), MA Courtauld Institute, is a lecturer in Art History at The University of Buckingham. He has published many articles on aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth-century collecting with particular reference to The Grand Tour.
The Grand Tour
GEOFFREY HUMPHRIES Portrait-figure artist, has lived in Venice for 40 years and exhibited throughout Europe.
Life drawing and portraiture classes
FREDERICK LAURITZEN MA (Oxon), Phd Columbia, Post Doctoral Fellow at the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose in Bologna. His field of research is Byzantine literature and culture.
Visit to Ravenna
PETER LAURITZEN MA, Resident in Venice since 1967, author of “Palaces of Venice”,“Venice – a thousand years of Culture and Civilisation”, “The Islands and Lagoons of Venice”, ‘The UNESCO report; Venice Restored’, editor at large of Architectural Digest.
Venetian History (1 & 2) Restoration in Venice; The Venetian palace; Palladio An introduction to Venetian painting – visit to Accademia Gallery; Visit to Ravenna
VIVIEN LOVELL BA, 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, and co-publisher of “Public: Art: Space” (Merrell Holberton 1998).
Public art today
WILLIAM LORIMER Christie’s Continental Furniture specialist, former director of Education department and NADFAS lecturer.
A View of the Commercial Art World -The Auction House
NIGEL MCGILCHRIST MA (Oxon.), has lived and worked as an Art Historian in Rome for thirty 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 Smithsonian Institute in Washington DCand San Diego Museum of Art, California.
MARBLE. The Brilliance of Ancient Surfaces: the Polychrome: Marbles of Antiquity
BYZANTINE ART: The Transformation of the Roman world: Ravenna and a new Christian civilisation
The Re-discovery of Coloured Marbles in Mediaeval and Renaissance Italy
MARCO POLO: Venice’s Man of Marvels: From Stone to Sensuality: how Marble comes to life in Sculpture
DAVID NEWBOLD MA (Oxon.), MA(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.
Education in Italy
DR NICOLAS PENNY Director of the National Gallery, London
Welcome to the National Gallery
Veronese, Tiepolo & Canova
PETER PHILLIPS MA, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2005. Well-known broadcaster and conductor, founder Director of the Tallis Scholars (Gramophone Record of the Year Award 1987), Music critic The Spectator. Publisher of The Musical Times. Director of Music, Merton College, Oxford from autumn 2008.
The tradition of classical music in Europe
Chant and polyphony in the western tradition; Monteverdi and the Venetian revolution; the contribution of Bach and Handel; the Creation of the Modern Orchestra
ENRICA ROCCA runs a cookery school with a difference. Born in Venice, Enrica is an Italian cook of note, a flamboyant and passionate chef and restaurateur.
Cookery Classes
JEREMY SAMS BA, Director and translator. Opera translations include Wagner’ s Ring, Mozart’s Figaro, Magic Flute and Cosi fan Tutte (ENO), Lehar’s MerryWidow (Covent Garden). Frequent broadcaster on opera and other music including his series, “Sams at the Opera” for Radio 3. Recent work as a director includes The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium. He has also recently written the libretto for The Enchanted Island, which opened at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in January 2012.
Opera – All Human Life is Here
Families….together and apart
Making the right decision….Fidelity, forgiveness, acceptance
Deadly Sins….Jealousy, rage and worse
Opera to Musicals….and beyond
MATTEO SANSONE Ph.D (Edin.) is an expert on operatic literature and his special field is late nineteenth-century Italian opera on which he has published several studies. He teaches Italian Opera at New York University in Florence and lectures at the British Institute of Florence.
The Operas of Monteverdi and Puccini
JASPER SHARP MA, University of Edinburgh. Former Exhibitions Organizer at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Now an independent curator & writer based in Vienna, Austria.
The Art World: its various Institutions and Players
The History of the Venice Biennale
MARK SMITH photographer, based in Venice, publications include “The Nude: a Visual Reference for the Artist” and “Palaces in Venice”.
Photography Classes
SUSAN STEER MA, Ph.D. Visiting lecturer in History of Art for the University of Warwick’s “Venice term” BA and MA programmes. Susan has also lectured in the History of Art for the University of Bristol and has worked as both researcher and editor of the UK’s national inventory of European paintings on behalf of the University of Glasgow and the National Gallery.
Visits throughout the city and lagoon islands, introducing the students to the less visited major works in Venice and the islands and teaching a useful method for looking at architecture and works of art.
BEN STREET is an Art History teacher, gallery educator and freelance curator based in London. He is a lecturer at the National Gallery and has been a gallery educator at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Hayward Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Courtauld Gallery, London. He writes on contemporary art for Art21, Artnet and Art Review. Ben is currently involved in curating exhibitions of contemporary art at a new art space in north-west London, Intervention Gallery.
Collections and Collectors of Italy
The Canonical Giants: Raphael
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Florence and the Medici – an Introduction
NICHOLAS TRUE CBE, MA, Former Whitgift Research Student at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in the field of Byzantine Studies. Publications on Byzantium.
Byzantine Art – the transformation of the Roman world: Ravenna and a new Christian civilisation; Mirror in the East: the splendour and fall of Byzantium and its impact on Venice
San Marco visit
ANDREW TYLEY BSc, B Arch, M Arch (Yale), ARB, RIBA, Associate Director at Richard Rogers Partnership. Architects responsible for Centre Pompidou, the Lloyds Building, London and the Millennium Project, London.
Archtiecture Today
LOUISA WARMAN BA Courtauld Institute, MA University of Warwick, is an Art Historian resident in Venice since 2000. She works as a translator for art history publications and leads Renaissance and Medieval art history tours in the city.
Visits throughout the city and lagoon islands, introducing the students to the less visited major works in Venice and the islands and teaching a useful method for looking at architecture and works of art.
PAUL WILLIAMS Research Fellow in the Department of meteorology, Reading University. A leading environmental specialist, he was recently the lead author on climate change commissioned by the European parliament.
Facts, Figures and Projections: the reality of climate change science
ROSELLA ZORZI Professor in American Literature, University of Venice. Director Società Dante Alighieri, Venice.
Henry James in Venice
Venice
Orientation walk-abouts (2); the Accademia Gallery; the Frari; S. Marco, Palazzo Ducale
Private visit to Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art
Private visits: Dr Bruna Caruso to S. Marco with the mosaics illuminated; with Peter Lauritzen to S. Giorgio Maggiore, now the Fondazione Giorgio Cini; to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Visits throughout the city and lagoon islands with Susan Steer & Louisa Warman.
Visit to Ravenna – S. Apollinare in Classe; S. Vitale; Tomb of Galla Placida; Orthodox Baptistery; the Museum; S. Apollinare Nuovo.
Visit to Padua – the Scrovegni Chapel – Giotto; the Erimitani – Mantegna; the Santo, the Scuola del Santo – Titian.
In the Veneto – Palladian Villas in the Veneto, Villa Malcontenta, Villa La Rotonda and Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza
Classes in Venice:
Life Drawing and Portraiture – Geoffrey Humphries
Photography – Mark Smith
Italian – Teachers trained by Società Dante Alighieri
Cookery – Contessa Enrica Rocca
Florence
BEN STREET & CHARLES HALL
Introduction to Florence and on-site visits – Florentine Painting, Architecture and Sculpture
Uffizi Gallery, the Accademia (Private Visits)
The Medici Chapel, Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo, S. Croce, Pazzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, the Bargello, San. Lorenzo, The Laurentian Library, Sta Trinita, Rucellai chapel, Orsanmichele, Ospedale degli Innocenti
San Marco, Galleria Palatina, Santa Felicità, Brancacci Chapel.
Visit to Gardens of Villa Gamberaia at Settignano.
Classes: Life Drawing at Charles Cecil Studio
Lectures: Matteo Sansone Ph.D. (Edin.) is an expert on operatic literature and his special field is late nineteenth-century Italian opera on which he has published several studies. He runs the opera courses at the British Institute of Florence
The Monteverdi operas
Rome
NIGEL MCGILCHRIST MA (Oxon.), has lived and worked as an Art Historian in Rome for thirty 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 Smithsonian Institute in Washington DCand San Diego Museum of Art, California.
On first evening, a walk around the historic centre of Rome introducing its main landmarks and monuments to include Campo de Fiori area – Palazzo della Cancelleria, Palazzo Farnese and Palazzo Spada: the Ghetto area, the Capitol Hill and Michelangelo’s Square, the Trevi Fountain; the Hadrianeum; and past the Pantheon to Piazza Navona
Visit to Borromini’s Church of Sant’ Ivo alla Sapienza followed by an Introduction to Rome by coach to include the Tiber and the Iola Iberian, Castle Spangle, St.Peter’s, the Janiculum Hill, the ‘Fontanone’, Bramante’s Tempietto, S. Pietro in Montorio, the Pyramid of Cestius & the Protestant Cemetery, the Baths of Caracalla, the Circus Maximus; the Via Appia Antica and the tomb of Cecilia Metella, and S. Giovanni in Porta Latina, S. Maria degli Angeli, Santa Constanza, S. Agnese fuori le Mura
Following days – visits to include:
Classical Rome and the Classical Survival in later epochs from the Capitol Hill into the Roman and Imperial Fora; the Colosseum; the Arch of Constantine, the church of SS.Cosman & Damian; Trajan’s Markets and Column
The Heart of Rome: The Pantheon; Borromini’s Church of Sant’ Ivo alla Sapienza, The Caravaggio chapels in S. Luigi de’ Francesi and Sant’ Agostino, The Ara Pacis, and the Piazza di Spagna area.
Private visits to the Borghese Collection (The Bernini sculptures and the paintings collection at the Villa Borghese) and to the Keats and Shelley Memorial House
Independent visit to the interior of St Peter’s Basilica, Private visit to The Vatican Collections, including Cortile Ottagonale, Antiquities Collections, the Chapel of Nicholas V, the Raphael Rooms and Sistine Chapel
Visit to Villa d’Este and Temple of Sibilla at Tivoli and lunch at the Ristorante Sibilla