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  • Venice: the Bacino di San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore (c. 1735-1744) ©The Trustees of the Wallace Collection Sold out

    ‘Venice and the Wallace Collection’ with Dr Xavier Bray

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    2023 Kirker Spring lecture in aid of Venice in Peril Fund

    THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT BUT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BUY A RECORDING AFTER THE EVENT

    Event date and time: 16 May 2023   Lecture at 7.00pm,  Reception from 6.15pm – a glass of prosecco is included with your ticket.

    Place: Royal Geographical Society, SW7 2AR

    Tickets: £25 (Friends’ discount does not apply to this event)

    Tickets for this lecture will be posted in April to the address given with your payment.

    Tickets are non-refundable

    The 2023 Venice in Peril Kirker lecture will be given by Dr Xavier Bray, the Director of the Wallace Collection, who will explore Venice through the lens of the collection’s treasures. From masterpieces by Titian and Canaletto to glass and decorative arts, fresh insights will link this wonderful museum on our doorstep with Britain’s longstanding fascination with La Serenissima.

    Dr Xavier Bray is a renowned art historian and curator specialising in 17th- and 18th-century art and has been Director of the Wallace Collection since 2016. He began his career as Assistant Curator at the National Gallery, London and then as Chief Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao before moving to Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2011.

    His many publications and exhibition catalogues include El Greco, Caravaggio, Velasquez, The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700; Murillo and Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship and most recently Goya: The Portraits.

    Since joining the Wallace Collection he has overseen and co-curated several exhibitions including Richard Wallace: The Collector, Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads and most recently with the writer William Dalrymple, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company. He is also the lead Curator on the Wallace’s upcoming exhibition Portraits of Dogs: from Gainsborough to Hockney, which opens 29 March 2023.

    © The Trustees of the Wallace Collection.

     

  • Venice: the Bacino di San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore (c. 1735-1744) ©The Trustees of the Wallace Collection

    RECORDING ONLY: Kirker Lecture 2023 ‘Venice and the Wallace Collection’ with Dr Xavier Bray

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    Event date and time: This a recording of the live lecture being held at the Royal Geographical Society, London on 16 May 2023. Buy a ticket here to receive a recording link, which will be sent to you after the lecture.

    Tickets are non-refundable

    The 2023 Venice in Peril Kirker lecture is being given by Dr Xavier Bray, the Director of the Wallace Collection, who will explore Venice through the lens of the collection’s treasures. From masterpieces by Titian and Canaletto to glass and decorative arts, fresh insights will link this wonderful museum on our doorstep with Britain’s longstanding fascination with La Serenissima.

    Dr Xavier Bray is a renowned art historian and curator specialising in 17th- and 18th-century art and has been Director of the Wallace Collection since 2016. He began his career as Assistant Curator at the National Gallery, London and then as Chief Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao before moving to Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2011.

    His many publications and exhibition catalogues include El Greco, Caravaggio, Velasquez, The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700; Murillo and Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship and most recently Goya: The Portraits.

    Since joining the Wallace Collection he has overseen and co-curated several exhibitions including Richard Wallace: The Collector, Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads and most recently with the writer William Dalrymple, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company. He is also the lead Curator on the Wallace’s upcoming exhibition Portraits of Dogs: from Gainsborough to Hockney, which opens 29 March 2023.

    We are grateful to Kirker Holidays for sponsoring this event, which means that proceeds from ticket sales can go to fund Venice in Peril conservation projects.

    © The Trustees of the Wallace Collection.

     

  • ‘Trains to Venice’ with Andrew Martin – Recording

     £10.00 Tickets

    Event date and time: This a recording of the live lecture held at the Society of Antiquaries on 13 March 2023. Buy a ticket here to receive a recording link, which will be sent to you in the following week and/or on receipt of payment.

    Tickets: £10

    Andrew Martin discusses Venice as a magnet for some notable trains of the past and present, including the Simplon Express, the Simplon Orient Express, the Venice Simplon Orient Express and the Thello overnight service from Paris. His talk will draw on timetables, literature and his own experience of going by train to Venice.

    Andrew is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He has written many books with a railway theme, including The Night Trains: the Rise and Fall of the European Sleeper, and ten novels featuring the railway policeman, Jim Stringer. His book, Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, is out in July 2023.

  • ‘As it was, where it was…’ The Fall and Rise of the Campanile of San Marco with Sarah Quill – Recording

     £10.00 Tickets

    Event: This is a recording of the live lecture held at the Society of Antiquaries on 20 February 2023. Buy a ticket here to receive a recording link, which will be sent to you on receipt of payment.

    Tickets: £10 

    In July 1902 the famous bell-tower of St Mark, the city’s totemic symbol, collapsed into a pile of rubble, crushing Sansovino’s 16thC Loggetta beneath it, and narrowly missing the slender columns of the Basilica. News of the disaster flashed by telegram round the world, and the shock and distress felt by Venetians at the sudden loss of their landmark campanile was intense. After an immediate decision by the town council that the Campanile would be rebuilt exactly as it was and where it was, the work of recovery, planning and rebuilding took ten years.

    Sarah Quill has worked between Venice and London since the 1970s, building up an extensive photographic archive of Venetian architecture, sculpture and daily life. Her book, Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited was published in 2000, followed by a new and extended edition in 2015, which has recently been translated into Italian. She lectures regularly, principally on Venetian subjects, and is a trustee of the Venice in Peril Fund.