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CANCELLED Francesco Morosini, Warrior Doge: Venice and the End of Empire with Jonathan Keates
£20.00 Add to basketFrancesco Morosini (1619-1694 was Venice’s last great doge. Fighting the Turks in the Peloponnese, he brought us – indirectly – the Elgin Marbles and gave Venice its final burst of prestige as a Mediterranean power. Jonathan Keates evokes the thrilling yet also tragic career of this compelling figure – not forgetting the favourite cat he took everywhere on his campaigns.
Jonathan Keates is the Chairman of Venice in Peril
Event date and time: 19 October 2020, 6.45pm
Tickets: Friends £20, others £22.50, doors open 6.30, lecture 6.45pm (ticket price includes a glass of wine after the lecture)
At the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Titian: Sex, Love and Violence at the Fitzwilliam Museum Ashley Clarke Memorial Lecture
Read moreEvent date and time: 9 November 2020
This lecture will now take place online via Zoom. Registration details will be sent out via the VIP e-newsletter which you can sign up for by clicking the link at the top of the page.
In this talk Luke Syson will focus on Titian’s three late works at the Fitzwilliam. Titian was one of the great painters of love, but, as he entered the last stage of his long career, his imagery, driven often by his choice of narrative, became darker. The sexual content became more explicit and the violence around the sex was also more evident. What was he trying to say? By looking at each of these works closely, Luke hopes to understand better, and explain, Titian’s attitudes to love, sex and violence, and to his manner of painting each.
Luke Syson is the fourteenth Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Until 2019 he was Chairman of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and before that he held curatorial positions at the British Museum, the V&A and the National Gallery where he led the campaign to acquire Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks.
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This lecture was originally planned as the 2020 Venice in Peril Fund Kirker lecture
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‘Glorious Things’: John Ruskin’s Daguerreotype Photographs of Venice, Ashley Clarke Memorial Lecture with Sarah Quill
£40.00 Read moreDuring his 1845 visit to Venice, Ruskin became aware of the power of the recently invented daguerreotype camera to make accurate records of endangered buildings. To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth Sarah Quill, a Trustee of Venice in Peril, will look at Ruskin’s involvement with photography during his researches for The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice.
At the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BE.
Date & Time: 11 November 2019, 6.45pm
Doors open 6.30 for 6.45pm
Tickets:
£35 Friends, £40 Others – to include a reception afterwards.
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Accademia – recent acquistions and the ‘Grande Gallerie’ Project with Paola Marini
£20.00 Add to basketAs Director of the Accademia between 2015-2018, Paola Marini oversaw a major programme of exhibitions, conservation and remodelling of the galleries. Setting this work in context she will offer a preview of the new Cinquecento Rooms in the light of recent acquisitions and conservation, before reflecting on her new role as Chairman of the Association of Private Committees for Venice.
At the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BE.
Date & Time: 21 October 2019, 6.45pm
Doors open 6.30 for 6.45pm
£18 Friends, £20 Others – to include a glass of wine.
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Screens, mosaics and meanings in Torcello and San Marco with Antony Eastmond
£20.00 Add to basketAntony Eastmond is AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art, where he is also Dean & Deputy Director. His research interests stretch from the early art of the Venetian lagoon, to the Caucasus & the eastern frontiers of the Christian world and its interaction with the Islamic world. He will talk about the iconostasis and mosaics at Torcello comparing them to the apse of San Marco mosaics and propose that in them we see the birth of Venetian art as distinct from that of Rome or Constantinople.
At the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BE.
Date & Time: 23 September 2019, 6.45pm
Doors open 6.30 for 6.45pm
£18 Friends, £20 Others – to include a glass of wine.
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The Ghetto of Venice – A Place of Exchange with Edmund de Waal
£20.00 Read moreEdmund de Waal, internationally acclaimed artist and author of ‘Hare with Amber Eyes’, gives the 2019 Kirker Lecture in aid of Venice in Peril.
Drawing on the themes of his new Venice project, psalm, Edmund de Waal will explore the rich history of the Ghetto, its communities, its languages and its traditions as a place at the margins of the city and at the centre of world culture.
The exhibition on two sites, will include installations of porcelain and books. It opens on 7 May in the spaces around the Canton Scuola, one of three synagogues in the Venice Ghetto, and in the Istituto Veneto near La Fenice.
Ticket price includes reception before the lecture
Reception 6pm & Lecture 7pm
At Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
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Palladio and the Impact of Venice with Bruce Boucher, 18 March 2019
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Mantegna/Bellini with Caroline Campbell : 21 January 2019
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Guiseppe Verdi at La Fenice: Ashley Clarke Memorial Lecture with Sir Mark Elder on 12 November
£20.00 Add to basketSir Mark Elder has been Music Director of the Hallé has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was previously Music Director of English National Opera and has appeared in many of the great opera theatres.
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2018 Christmas cards
£12.50 – £127.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageIn 2018, to mark Tintoretto’s 500th anniversary, Venice in Peril has helped to fund a survey and condition report of the ceiling of the Sala Capitolare at Scuola Grande di San Rocco, where this picture is part of the New Testament cycle around the walls. Reproduced with kind permission of Scuola Grande di San Rocco. -
15th century Booktrade Project: Printing R-Evolution with Cristina Dondi & Geri della Rocca de Candal on 22 October
£20.00 Add to basketCristina Dondi, Lincoln College, Oxford is Principal Investigator of the 15th century Booktrade Project and Geri della Rocca de Candal is Postdoctoral Research Fellow and President of the Society for the Preservation of Rare Books.
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