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...

I can hardly convey the utter delight and excitement of finally arriving in this stupendous city with our group of students. The weather...

The group is starting to settle in to the beat. Our lovely room at the National Gallery was suddenly left so that we could have a day 'on...

The John Hall Venice Course of 2022 got off to a great start. Our group took their seats in our National Gallery lecture theatre for an...

With only a few days to go before the launch of the 2022 edition of the John Hall Venice Course, our 58th consecutive event, I went out...

Next year we will be holding our party at The Travellers Club as usual, having had to take a year out due to you-know-what. We are...

I still have to pinch myself. I wake up with a start, then look around to find that I'm in my own bed in my home. The journey to arrive...

It has been revealed that some of us decided not to waste an hour in Rome by going to bed! Here is a selection of our trip through the...

Many years ago, when I first joined the John Hall Course as putative director, at the end of the London Week the management, and a few...

It was not only the Sistine Chapel that we had private access to, but the entirety of the Vatican Collection, although wisely, after a...