Having postponed our party this year due to concerns in January that, with a couple of days to go before the group had to take LFTs in...

"Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion...

As our time in Italy comes to a close, the group visited the fantastic Pantheon, the Caravaggio paintings of St Matthew and the Virgin of...

A second day in the sun. We began with Frank at Trajan's column, the extraordinary depiction of the Emperor Trajan against the Dacians...

Massimo brings the coach to Palazzo Strozzi and we head down for the last leg of our nine weeks together. The Course of 2018, 2020 and...

As we start thinking of Rome we had a few art-filled days in Florence. Some say that being in the city is similar to being on an Art...

Feeling a bit worse for wear after a highly 'emotional' last night in Venice, where we had to say ci'vediamo to some of our beloved...

Nearly everyone made it to get in the 'sunny version' of the JHV2022 Group photo, so here are my two favourites! Shot by our brilliant...

Today we had our wonderful private visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Since my first visit to the place in the late 1960's, when...

As we headed into our final week of the Venice part of the course we took the opportunity to enjoy a stunning day out in the Veneto to...

Every year, since the young students of the first ever John Hall Venice course boarded their trains to head back to Britain, or on to...

It's incredible to consider that, as I write this, we have only two weeks left, and some of our group will be thinking of heading home...

With a chilly misty morning (but not too early!) we headed off to the Castello district of Venice, the southern end of the city. The...

On a rather damp afternoon we headed over the bacino to visit Andrea Palladio's splendid church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Even in the...

The group spent quite a few days on site visits in Venice, and then in Padua. We visited three great churches, the legendary Santa Maria...

I didn't add any text to the last post, so I thought that I'd explain some of these images. The Pala d'Oro, that priceless gold, enamel...

You can't be in Venice and not visit the home of the Doges, so on a stunning sunny morning our wonderful resident art historians, Louisa...

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Having settled into our lovely hotel and into the rhythm of daily life, we took a brief stroll around parts of the city to get a sense of...