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‘Vincenzo Coronelli and his Venetian Globes’
£10.00 Add to basketMarica Milanesi in conversation with Susan Steer
Event date and time: 24 January 2023, 4.30pm UK time (online event – PLEASE NOTE EARLIER TIME THAN PUBLISHED IN WINTER 2022 NEWSLETTER)
Tickets: £10 (Ticket & registration details are sent out via the VIP e-newsletter)
Venice in Peril has recently adopted a 1693 celestial globe designed by the Franciscan friar Vincenzo Coronelli who made his name building two huge globes for Louis XIV. Marica Milanesi, professor of the history of geography at Pavia and author of an acclaimed monograph on Coronelli, will introduce us to the cosmographer and entrepreneur and explain how and why the globe is being restored in the Florentine studio of Lucia and Andrea Dori.
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‘Trains to Venice’ with Andrew Martin
£25.00 Add to basketEvent date and time: 13 March, 6.30-8.30pm
At the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1 0BE
Tickets: £20 (Friends with website login) and £25 (others) – to include a glass of wine
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.
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‘Venice and the Wallace Collection’ with Dr Xavier Bray
£25.00 Read more2023 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.
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RECORDING ONLY: Kirker Lecture 2023 ‘Venice and the Wallace Collection’ with Dr Xavier Bray
£15.00 Add to basketEvent 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.
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‘Trains to Venice’ with Andrew Martin – Recording
£10.00 Add to basketEvent 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.
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‘As it was, where it was…’ The Fall and Rise of the Campanile of San Marco with Sarah Quill – Recording
£10.00 Add to basketEvent: 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.
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‘Celebrating Canova at Apsley House’ New Date: 1st November
Read morePlease email info@veniceinperil.org if you would like to be put on the waiting list for 1st November
By kind invitation of the Duke of Wellington in aid of Venice in Peril Fund and the Georgian Group
Event date and time: 1 November, 6 to 8pm
Place: Apsley House, 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner W1J TNT
Tickets: £35 & Friends £30
A special event to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Canova, sculptor and cultural diplomat who inspired collectors across Europe.
Hosted by the Duke of Wellington this is an opportunity to see Apsley House after hours and hear about the collection. It includes one of Canova’s Ideal Heads as well as his huge statue of Napoleon as Mars, presented to the Duke of Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo.
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Ashley Clarke Memorial Lecture: ‘Rosalba Carriera: Portraitist of 18th-century Venice’ with Christopher Baker
Read morePlease email info@veniceinperil.org if you would like a link to the recording of this year’s Ashley Clarke Memorial Lecture by Christopher Baker on 14 November
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‘The Gondoliers’ with Jonathan Keates
Read moreEvent date and time: 14 December, 6.30pm UK time, FREE
Please email info@veniceinperil.org for the Zoom link for this talk.
Join us for this special Christmas online event – free to all though donations are of course welcome – as we round off this 50th Anniversary year and celebrate with a virtual drink together.
Find out who is the real king of Barataria when Jonathan Keates shares his enthusiasm for Gilbert & Sullivan’s, ‘The Gondoliers’.
A new Scottish Opera co-production with D’Oyly Carte Opera & State Opera South Australia has recently received great reviews and comes to the Hackney Empire for its last performances 30 March – 2 April 2022 -
‘Music in the Ducal Chapel, St Mark’s, Venice’ with Michael Chance and Deborah Howard
£10.00 Add to basketEvent date and time: 25 January, 6.30pm UK time, tickets £10 – WE REGRET THAT FOR TICKETS PURCHASED AFTER 4.30PM ON 25/1/22 WE WILL BE UNABLE TO ADMIT YOU TO THE EVENT BUT WE WILL SEND YOU THE RECORDING.
NB There is no Friends’ discount for this event so please buy tickets without logging into your account.
This lecture will take place online via Zoom.
Ticket and registration details are sent out via the VIP e-newsletter. Sign up for e-news at the top of the Home page to register. If you are a late registration or have not received an e-newsletter please email info@veniceinperil.org on the day of the talk.
An online conversation between Deborah Howard, Trustee of Venice in Peril, who, in ground-breaking studies has explored the interaction between sound and architecture in Renaissance buildings, and Michael Chance, countertenor and Artistic Director of The Grange Festival, who performed in the much-loved 1989 recording of Monteverdi’s Vespers in St Marks. They will talk about sound experience, architectural setting and how different doges, and even the angle of mosaic tesserae, played their part in the Ducal Chapel of St Mark’s. In 2016 Venice in Peril funded the conservation of 7 manuscript choir books of 16th to 18th- century mass settings from St Marks.
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‘Finding Renaissance bronze-founders & sculptors in the Veneto: Joseph de Levis and Il Bresciano’ with Charles Avery
£25.00 Add to basketEvent date and time: 21 February 6.45pm
A joint event with the British-Italian Society
Tickets: Friends of Venice in Peril and Members of the British-Italian Society £20, others £25, doors open at 6.30, lecture 6.45pm (ticket price includes a glass of wine after the lecture)
NB Friends of Venice in Peril please log in to your account for the Friends’ discount for this event. (Members of the BIS should buy their discounted tickets from the BIS website)
At the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BE
Charles Avery is a specialist in European, particularly Italian, sculpture. A graduate in Classics from Cambridge University, he obtained a Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and a doctorate for published work from Cambridge. Charles was Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1966-79) and a Director of Christie’s for a decade. Since 1990 he has been an independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer.
Charles’ books include Florentine Renaissance Sculpture (1970), Donatello: an Introduction (1994), Giambologna, the Complete Sculpture (1987), Bernini, Genius of the Baroque (1997 – paperback, 2006), The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos (1678-1741) and the Art of Sculpture (2008), A School of Dolphins (2009) and Joseph De Levis & Company: Renaissance Bronze-Founders in Verona (2016). His latest book is Il Bresciano: Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice.
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‘Majlis Garden: San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice’ with Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
£25.00 Add to basketEvent date and time: 21 March 2021, 6.45pm
Tickets: Friends £20, others £25, doors open 6.30, lecture 6.45pm (ticket price includes a glass of wine after the lecture)
NB – Please log in to your Members’ account to access the Friends’ discount for this event.
At the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Todd will discuss the ephemeral garden he created at San Giorgio Maggiore for the 2021 Venice Architectural Biennale. His fruit, flower and vegetable garden was designed with a view to forming a striking and alluring landscape setting for the Majlis – a temporary installation in the monastery’s garden; its aim was to celebrate the pre-eminent role of Venice in the introduction and dispersal of exotic flora from the Orient. The garden received wide international acclaim as a contemporary and playful response to the Venetian impulse to gather, appropriate and display the rare, the useful, the exotic and the unusual.
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a landscape architect, historian, author and collector. He has an international design practice based in London, is a lecturer at New York University (London), Gardens Adviser to Historic Royal Palaces, and President of the London Gardens Trust. His forthcoming book English Garden Eccentrics: three hundred years of extraordinary groves, burrowings, mountains and menageries shall be published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press (UK) in April 2022.