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1965 - 1975
1976 - 1985
1986 - 1995
1996 - 2005
2006 - 2008

The first Course, in 1965, was called The Contemporary Europe Pre-University Course, and its content was predominantly topics of contemporary interest- political theory, economics, sociology, psychology, urban planning, etc. Few people did art history at school at that time. Due to the inspiring lectures on Venetian Art by Professor Pignatti, Vice Director of the Civic Museums, art history became popular with our students and gradually, together with Music and World Cinema, became the core of the Course. In 2010 we are returning to our original involvement with contemporary affairs by including a set of lectures on global environmental and political issues- without reducing our principal focus on the European cultural tradition.

In the first years of The Course we were guests of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of S.Giorgio Maggiore (picture above). Later, for 19 years, our lecture centre was in the Arsenale (picture above), guests of the Societa Dante Alighieri.

1965
The Contemporary Europe Pre-University Course in Venice
Spring
February 7 - April 26
Director: John Hall

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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici

Lectures: Giorgio Cini Foundation, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

Lecturers and Syllabus
Thought, science and imagination, society

Stephen Medcalf B.Lit., M.A. (Oxon) Lecturer in English Literature and the History of Ideas, Schools of English and American Studies and School of European Studies, University of Sussex

Michael Moran Lecturer in Philosophy, School of European Studies, University of Sussex

John Wilson M.A. (Oxon) Lecturer in Philosophy, School of European Studies, University of Sussex

Edmund Ions Lecturer in Sociology, University of York

Thought, science and imagination, society in Modern Europe
Lectures, seminars and discussions based on an attempt to understand the reactions of the European mind and imagination during the last hundred years to Industrialization.

Thought
A critical study of Marx, Freud, modern Existentialism and of certain modern European novelists, particularly Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Camus, Kafka.

Science and Imagination
Beginning with a discussion of the medieval world picture, the seminars will continue with its disruption in the 16th and 17th centuries and the building of modern cosmography and will conclude with current views of science on the human personality. The relations between religion and science will also be discussed from Galileo onwards.

Society
An introduction to sociology with reference to contemporary European society. The following aspects will be examined: social structure and function; socialization; stratification; mobility; primary groups; social change; the sociology of religion, education and knowledge.

The Arts

Cinema
Flavia Paulon Secretary of the Venice Film Biennale
Rosselini Visconti, Antonioni, Fellini

Venetian Art
Professor Terisio Pignatti Vice-Director of the Civic Museums of Venice
Venetian history, painting and architecture
Venetian history from the first settlement following the invasion of the Roman Empire by the Barbarians to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Venetian painting from the Ravenna mosaics to the Tiepolos. Venetian architecture, surveying the Romanesque, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles. This will include lectures on the influence of Venice on English architects with reference to Inigo Jones, Colen Campbell, Ruskin.

Film Making
Peter Theobald

Theatre production by students in Teatro Ca'Foscari
A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice.

1966
The Contemporary Europe Pre-University Course in Venice
Spring
February 19 - April 29
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: Museo Correr or Giorgio Cini Foundation, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

Lecturers and Syllabus

Noel Channon BBC TV Editor
Film making

Professor John Guthrie Lecturer, University of Venice
The United Kingdom of Italy and the political structure
Education and culture in contemporary Italy

Ronald Harris M.A. Master of Studies and Head of the History Department, The King's School, Canterbury
Venetian history
A series of recorded lectures

Malcolm Kitch Lecturer in History, School of European Studies, University of Sussex
Dante and the beginnings of the Italian Renaissance
Art and philosophy in the Renaissance 1450-1550; Machiavelli and the 'Modern State'; Castiglioni and the 'Courtly Renaissance'; Galileo and the Century of Genius.

Stephen Medcalf Lecturer, University of Sussex
The European mind and imagination
An attempt to understand the reactions of the European mind and imagination, during the last hundred years to Industrialization. Lectures to include: the nature of metaphysics; freedom and responsibility; crime, punishment and mental health; an introduction to sociology; the sociology of Europe; the Medieval world picture; the edge of objectivity.

Michael Moran Lecturer in Philosophy, School of European Studies, University of Sussex
What is philosophy?
Logical positivism; linguistic analysis; Existentialism - Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Sartre; Freud, Jung and the Unconscious.

Professor Michelangelo Muraro Soprintendenza alle gallerie ed alle Opere D'Arte, Venice
The civilisation, art and architecture of Venice
A series of lectures

Flavia Paulon Mostra Internationale D'Arte Cinematografica Della Biennale Di Venezia
Illustrated lectures on the film as a medium of communication. Includes the showing of films of leading directors, at the Ca'Giustinian Cinema of the International Film Festival of Venice (e.g. I Vitelloni - Fellini, Europa 51 - Rossellini, Le Amiche - Antonioni, Il Posto - Ormi, Cronique d'un été - cinema verité). Preliminary instruction on the making of documentary films on various aspects of Venice and Venetian life; assistance with film making on location and with film editing.

Daniel Snowman Lecturer in Sociology, School of European and American Studies, University of Sussex
Definitions and purposes
The individual and the mass; groups and public opinion; leadership; social and political systems.

1967
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 20 - April 15
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: Museo Correr

Lecturers and Syllabus

Jennifer Fletcher B.A. Lecturer in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute and Reading University
The techniques of art history
Visual and documentary sources; Venetian Byzantine art; patron and artist in 15th century Italy; the artist's workshop in the 15th century; Renaissance portraiture; the equestrian monument; Ruskin and Venice.

John Guthrie Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
Contemporary Italy
A general introduction; modern Italy - the political structure; education and culture in Italy today.
Italian music
The Venetian school; Italian folk music.

John Hale M.A. Professor of History, University of Warwick
The Venetian Constitution
How it worked and its influence on political thought in Italy, England and America.

Renaissance Religion
Paganism, reformism, church and state.

Economic life in the Renaissance
Trade, industry, banking, free enterprise versus state regulation and church prohibition; Venice before and after the Portuguese tapping of the spice trades.

Individualism
Castiglione and Cellini; social conventions, guilds and confraternities; 'the career open to talent' in Italy and elsewhere in Europe.

Humanism
Its meaning; the revival of antiquity; the practical application of humanist learning in manners and morals; art and political thought.
The taste for Venice
Changing reactions among travellers, connoisseurs and writers from the 17th to the 19th century.

Ronald Harris M.A. Head of the History Department, the King's School, Canterbury
A survey of Venetian history
Three recorded lectures.

Peter Oppenheimer M.A. Lecturer in Economics, Christ Church, Oxford
What economics is about
Methods of economic analysis; economic history 1914-1945; post war economic problems; free trade and integration in Europe; Britain, sterling and the Common Market.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Vice-Director of the Civic Museums of Venice
A survey of Venetian architecture; Venetian painting
From Ravenna mosaics to San Marco; trecento and early quatrocento; quatrocento - Mantegna, Carpaccio; the Bellini; cinquecento - Giorgione, Titian, Bassano, Tintoretto; seicento and early settecento - the baroque and rococo; settecento - Tiepolo and Longhi; landscape painting in the settecento - Canaletto, Guardi; Venice in settecento viewprints; architecture in Venice today.

Timothy Shallice Ph.D. Lecturer in Psychology, University College, London
Perception; memory; motivation; choice; heredity and environment; early childhood and the development of the personality; the development of intelligence.

Barry Sugarman Ph.D. Research Fellow in Sociology at the Farmington Trust Research Unit, Oxford
What is sociology?
Patterns of society; social class; sociology and education; social change, reform and revolution.

Italian language tuition is provided by graduates of the University Institute, Venice.

1968
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 24 - April 25
Director: John Hall

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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence.
Rome.

Lecturers and Syllabus

Laurence Chase B.A. Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Kent, Canterbury
What is philosophy?
Some conceptual problems: moral, religious; men and machines; the philosophy of history; Wittgenstein and art criticism; can art criticism be objective? What is a 'work of art'?

Paul Ginsborg B.A. Research Fellow in Risorgimento History, Queens College, Cambridge
Venice 1815-66
The Austrian occupation; the revolution of 1848-9; the Austrians again; the liberation; the city in 1848; description; class structure; March days; aspects of the revolution; socialism; nationalism; international republicanism.

John Guthrie Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
Contemporary Italy
General introduction; modern Italy; the political structure; education and culture in Italy today; Italian folk music.

John Hale M.A. Professor of History, University of Warwick
Renaissance Europe
Man and nature; family and community; the state; earning a living; religion.
Renaissance Italy
'Renaissance' and 'Middle Ages'; education and learning; humanism; Machiavelli and Castiglione; Italy and Europe.

Ronald Harris M.A. Head of the History Department, the King's School, Canterbury
A survey of Venetian history
Three recorded lectures.

Peter Oppenheimer M.A. Lecturer in Economics, Christ Church, Oxford
What economics is about; how much do economists know?
The allocation of resources; economic stability and growth; the balance of payments and international monetary problems; government economic policies; the 20th century economic history; Britain's economy: performance and prospects; Britain and the EEC.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Vice-Director of the Civic Museums of Venice.
A survey of Venetian architecture and of Venetian painting
From Ravenna mosaics to San Marco; trecento and early quatrocento; quatrocento - Mantegna, Carpaccio; the Bellini; cinquecento - Giorgione, Titian, Bassano, Tintoretto; seicento and early settecento - the baroque and rococo; settecento - Tiepolo and Longhi; landscape painting in the settecento - Canaletto, Guardi; Venice in settecento viewprints; architecture in Venice today.

Nicholas Ward-Jackson B.A. (Courtauld Institute), Scholar in Medieval and Later Italian Studies, the British School at Rome
Art Criticism
Baudelaire and Delacroix; Zola and the Impressionists; Ruskin and Turner; Pater and the Renaissance; art historical method and the Baroque; Caravaggio; Rembrandt; Rubens; Poussin.

Norman Williams M.Ed. Research Fellow in Psychology, Farmington Trust, Oxford
Scientific method and the social sciences
Statistics - use and misuse, relevance to social policy; the nature of measurement, types of measurement and scales; some important statistical concepts - measures of central tendency, of scatter, the normal distribution, probability significance and correlation; the application of measurement techniques - psychological tests, constructing tests, testing experimental hypotheses.

Theatre Production Director John Hall Teatro Ca' Foscari. Ionesco The Bald Prima Donna; Pinter: The Lover (with Carmen du Sautoy).

1969
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
March 1 - April 17
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome. Hotel Suisse

Lectures: Georgio Cini Foundation, Museo Correr or Galleria Barozzi

Lecturers and Syllabus

Stephen Bann Ph.D. Lecturer in History, University of Kent, Canterbury
Art and Language
The heritage of classicism - Ingres; romanticism - Baudelaire and Delacroix; Gauguin and
the synthetist view of art; the modern movement - constructivism and after; concrete art and concrete poetry; kinetic art; Vasarely and the triumph of structuralism; structuralism and the new novel; British painting before the Second World War - 'Francophilia to Francophobia'; British painting after the Second World War - 'tremors of the American earthquake'.

John Barber B.A. Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
Theory of the Modern State
Rousseau; Hegel; Marx; 20th century Marxism - Lenin, Stalin, Mao; utilitarian thought - Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill; some problems - elites, democratic theories, law and morality.

James Doran B.A. Junior Research Fellow, Dept. of Machine Intelligence and Perception, Edinburgh University
Intelligence and Electronic Computers
What is intelligence? What is an electronic computer? Programming a computer; programs which play games; programs which solve problems; programs which converse; robots and simulated robots; applications; things to come.

Paul Ginsborg B.A. Research Fellow, Queens College, Cambridge
Manin and the Revolution in Venice 1848-1849

John Guthrie Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
Italy Today
Regional introduction; the political structure; education.

Frank Hauser Director, Oxford Playhouse
Theatre Workshop

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Vice-Director of the Civic Museums of Venice, Professor of History of Art, University of Padua
A survey of Venetian architecture and of Venetian painting
From Ravenna mosaics to San Marco; trecento and early quattrocento; quattrocento - Mantegna, Carpaccio; the Bellini; cinquecento - Giorgione, Titian, Bassano, Tintoretto; seicento and early settecento - the baroque and rococo; settecento - Tiepolo and Longhi; landscape painting in the settecento - Canaletto, Guardi; Venice in settecento viewprints; architecture in Venice today.

Julie Rountree M.A. Oxford University Lecturer in Philosophy, Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford
Individuation of Human Beings
Perception; memory; volition; consciousness and self-consciousness; the identity of animals; the identity of machines; memory as criterion of personal identity; the bodily criterion; problems in individuating persons.

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Personal Assistant to the Director of the Uffizi Gallery
Venetian Painting & Architecture - some problems examined in detail
The development of the decorative cycles; analysis of the mannerist crisis in late cinquecento Venetian painting; aspects of Venetian rococo; town planning in Venice.

Nicholas Ward-Jackson B.A. (Courtauld) Scholar in Medieval and Later Italian Studies, the British School at Rome (lectures in Rome).
Roman Baroque
An introduction; Caravaggio; Bernini; Borromini; the development of illusionist ceiling painting.

1970
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 21 - April 9
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome. Hotel Suisse

Lectures: Georgio Cini Foundation, Museo Correr , Galleria Barozzi

Lecturers and Syllabus

Stephen Bann Ph.D. Lecturer in History, University of Kent, Canterbury
Art and Language
The heritage of classicism - Reynolds, Ingres; romanticism - Baudelaire, Delacroix; classicism revived - Gauguin and the synthetists; the modern movement - futurism, Dada, constructivism; concrete art and concrete poetry - Ian Hamilton Finlay; kinetic art - Vasarely; the new novel; British painting before the Second World War - 'Francophilia to Francophobia'; British painting after the Second World War.

John Barber B.A. Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
The Theory of the Modern State
Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke; Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hegel; Bentham, Mill; Marx; Lenin, Luxemburg; Stalin, Mao Tse Tung; Guevara; Castro; Fanon; Marcuse.

With Paul Ginsborg, four seminars on:
Contemporary Social and Political Problems
Democracy, socialism and elites; the student movement; relations between the third world and advanced countries; reforms or revolution in Britain?

Paul Ginsborg B.A. Research Fellow, Queens College, Cambridge
Manin and the Revolution in Venice 1848-1849

Richard Gutch B.A. Postgraduate Student in Town planning, University College, London
The City in History and Today
The evolution of cities, with reference to Venice, Florence, Rome, Paris, London, Amsterdam and to medieval, renaissance and baroque conceptions of town planning; Venice and the problems of historic cities; theoretical approaches to the city - geography and sociology; town planning in Britain; town planning as a discipline - the role of economics, law, design, computers.

John Guthrie Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
Italy Today
Regional introduction; the political structure; education.

Michael Healey
Theatre Workshop Galleria Barozzi and Teatro all'Avvogaria

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
English Writers in Italy
Byron, Shelley, Ruskin, Browning.

John Law M.A. Research Student, Merton College, Oxford
Castiglione's "The Courtier"
Patronage in Ferrara, Mantua and Venice in the 15th century; Britain and the Italian Renaissance.

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Personal Assistant to the Director of the Uffizi Gallery
Venetian Art - some aspects examined in detail
Palladio; visit to churches of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Zitelle, Redentore; late cinquecento painting - Veronese, Tintoretto; visit to Palazzo Ducale; visit to Scuola S. Rocco; Venetian baroque architecture - Longhena; visit to S. Maria della Salute; Venetian rococo art; visit to Scuola dei Carmini; visit to Ca'Rezzonico.

David Thomason M.A., M.Phil. (Warburg Institute) Lecturer, Camberwell School of Art
Venice and the Greek East
The Byzantine Empire and its art; Venice's involvement in the Byzantine world and its consequences for renaissance art and humanism in Venice.
The Artist and the Humanist
The beginnings of antiquarianism - ideas of Rome and antiquity in early renaissance art and politics; the beginnings of art criticism - the forerunners of Vasari; the renaissance ideal of the Country Life - the villa, the garden, landscape painting.

Norman Williams Research Fellow in Psychology, Farmington Trust, Oxford
The Nature and Methods of Modern Psychology
Problems in the scientific explanation of personality and behaviour - psychoanalytic and other dynamic models of personality, heredity and environment, measurement and assessment of personality; recent research.

1971
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 21 - April 8
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome. Hotel Suisse

Lectures: Georgio Cini Foundation, Museo Correr , Galleria Barozzi

Lecturers and Syllabus

Maeve Denby B.A. Labour Parliamentary Candidate for South Oxfordshire
British Politics in Theory and Practice
The nature of political activity; types of political ideology; political parties in Britain; party structure; application of ideologies to current political issues in Britain; extra-parliament activities - demonstrations, pressure groups; participation or apathy?

Richard Gutch B.A., M.Phil. (Town Planning)
The City, Past, Present and Future
Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque cities with special reference to Sienna, Florence, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, London; planning problems today - slum housing, urban motorways, new towns, new universities, historic cities; the problems of Venice today; the role of sociology, economics, geography and architecture in town planning.

John Guthrie Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
Italy Today
Regional introduction; the political structure; education.

Michael Healey
Theatre Workshop Galleria Barozzi and Palazzo Priuli (A Midsummer Night's Dream.)

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
English Writers in Italy
Byron, Shelley, Ruskin, Browning.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Vice-Director of the Civic Museums of Venice, Professor of History of Art, University of Padua
A survey of Venetian architecture and of Venetian painting
From Ravenna mosaics to San Marco; trecento and early quattrocento; quattrocento - Mantegna, Carpaccio; the Bellini; cinquecento - Giorgione, Titian, Bassano, Tintoretto; seicento and early settecento - the baroque and rococo; settecento - Tiepolo and Longhi; landscape painting in the settecento - Canaletto, Guardi; Venice in settecento viewprints; architecture in Venice today.

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Personal Assistant to the Director of the Uffizi Gallery
Venetian Art - some aspects examined in detail
Palladio; visit to churches of S. Georgio Maggiore, Zitelle, Redentore; late cinquecento painting - Veronese, Tintoretto; visit to Palazzo Ducale; visit to Scuola S. Rocco; Venetian baroque architecture - Longhena; visit to S. Maria della Salute; Venetian rococo art; visit to Scuola dei Carmini; visit to Ca'Rezzonico.

PhilipTabor M.A. ARIBA Postgraduate Research Student at the Centre for Land Use and Builtform Studies, Cambridge
The Frontier and the City of the Future: recurrent themes in modern architecture
Frontier ideas, from the American West to hippie communes; realization through technical innovations; Frank Lloyd Wright urbanizes the Pioneering Dream; Italian futurism, Russian revolutionary architecture and Le Corbusier's Radiant City; the science fiction element comics and plug-in city.

Norman Williams B.A., M.Ed., Research Fellow in Psychology, Farmington Trust, Oxford
Personality - An introduction to Behavioural Science
The task of psychology; aims, approaches and methods; the nature of psychological explanation, models and constructs; personality: definitions, methods of research; typologies and dimensions of personality; dynamic models of personality; determinants and development; adjustment and maladjustment; other factors; intelligence, creativity, social class; morality and social adjustment; testing and assessment.

1972
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 19 - April 6
Director: John Hall

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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: Georgio Cini Foundation, Museo Correr, Pensione Lecture Room

Lecturers and Syllabus

Maeve Denby B.A. Parliamentary Labour Candidate, Lecturer-Editor in Sociology, the Open University
British Politics in Theory and Practice
The nature of political activity; types of political ideology; political parties in Britain; party structure; application of ideologies to current political issues in Britain; extra-parliament activities - demonstrations, pressure groups; participation or apathy?

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
Writers in Italy
Byron, Shelley, Ruskin, Browning.

Charles Hope M.A. (Courtauld Institute), Research Lecturer, Christ Church, Oxford
Art and Society in 16th century Venice
Giorgione and his followers; Titian and his patrons; Venice and the art of central Italy; two innovators, Pordenone and Lotto; the reaffirmation of the tradition - Tintoretto and Veronese.

Deborah Howard M.A. (Courtauld Institute)
Architecture and Society in Renaissance Venice
Piazza S. Marco as an expression of political pride; the Rialto market; confraternities and hospitals and the Venetian social conscience; status and function in patrician family palaces; the theatre and stage set design.

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Sir Henry Wotton, James I's Ambassador in Venice

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Personal Assistant to the Director of the Uffizi Gallery
Venetian Baroque Art
Visit to S. Nicolo da Tolentino; visit to S. Maria della Salute; visit to S. Maria del Giglio and S. Moise; visit to the Scalzi.
Beginnings of Rococo in Venice
Visit to the Gesuiti; visit to Scuola dei Carmini; visit to Ca'Rezzonico.

Peter Russell Poet
William Blake's Condemnation of the great Venetian Painters
Problems of Poetry today

The Reverend Victor Stanley Chaplain to the English Church in Venice
Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo in Venice

Norman Williams B.A., M.Ed., Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Oxford Polytechnic
Personality - An introduction to Behavioural Science
The task of psychology; aims, approaches and methods; the nature of psychological explanation, models and constructs; personality: definitions, methods of research; typologies and dimensions of personality; dynamic models of personality; determinants and development; adjustment and maladjustment; other factors; intelligence, creativity, social class; morality and social adjustment; testing and assessment.

Theatre. In Palazzo Priuli: Two Gentlemen of Verona.

1973
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 17 - April 4
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: Georgio Cini Foundation, Museo Correr, Pensione Lecture Room

Lecturers and Syllabus

Michael Healey
Theatre Workshop

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Lecturer in English, the University Institute of Language and Letters, Venice
Writers in Italy
Byron, Shelley, Ruskin, Browning.

Charles Hope M.A. Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
Venice and the Art of the Renaissance
The early Renaissance in Florence and Central Italy; the early Renaissance in Venice and North Italy; Mantegna, Antonello da Messina and Giovanni Bellini; the high Renaissance in Florence and Central Italy; official art in Venice around 1500; Gentile Bellini and Carpaccio: the innovations of Giorgione; the post-Giorgionesque generation; Titian, Palma Vecchio and Lotto; early Mannerist art; Venice and the art of Central Italy; Titian and his patrons; Tintoretto, Veronese and Bassano; visit to the Doge's palace.

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Sir Henry Wotton, James I's Ambassador in Venice

Nicola Le Fanu B.A. Composer
400 Years of Opera
Monteverdi's Venetian operas; Mozart and opera buff; the 19th century; Verdi, Wagner; why opera in the 20th century? (These lectures will be illustrated with reference to the current repertoire at La Fenice, the Venetian Opera House).
Music in the 20th Century
Debussy and the post-impressionist Paris; Stravinsky and the Russian Ballet; Schonberg and a central tradition; against tradition - from Dada to Cage; 1950 '1'anno zero to 1972.

Robert McHenry B.A., D.Phil. Tutor in Social Psychology, Oxford University
Social Psychology
The aims and methods of social psychology; non-verbal communication; cross-cultural social interaction; forming impressions of other persons; measuring the accuracy of impressions; children's ability to form impressions; prejudice; attitude change; leadership and group processes; social psychological ideas about mental illness.

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
Architecture in 16th Century Venice
Introduction; Bramante and the architecture of the High renaissance in Rome; visit to Sansovino's major buildings in Venice - Palazzo Corner, the Zecca, the Library, the Loggetta; visit to S.Giorgio Maggiore; visit to Le Zitelle and Il Redentore; visit to Padua and then to Villa Maser and Villa Emo.
Baroque and Rococo Art in Venice
Introduction; Roman Baroque art; visit to S. Maria della Salute; visit to the Scuola del Carmine and the Ca'Zenobio; visit to Ca'Rezzonico; Canova and the Birth of Neo-Classicism.

Peter Russell Poet
William Blake's Condemnation of the great Venetian Painters
Problems of Poetry today

The Reverend Victor Stanley Chaplain to the English Church in Venice
Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo in Venice

Visits in Florence
Charles Hope
Gothic and Renaissance Art in Florence
Visits to: Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella, Santo Spirito and Santa Maria del Carmine, San Lorenzo, Palazzo Vecchio.
Visits in Rome
Stella Rudolph
Renaissance and Baroque Art in Rome
Visits to: Villa Farnesina, Santa Maria del Popolo, Il Gesu, Sant'Andrea della Valle, Sant'Ignazio, San Luigi del Francesi, Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona, Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane, Santa Maria della Vittoria.

1974
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 16 - April 4
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione alla Salute da Cici
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome. Pensione Accademia

Lectures: Museo Correr or Pensione Lecture Room

Lecturers and Syllabus

Denis Arnold M.A., B.Mus., Hon. R.A.M., A.R.C.M., Professor of Music, Nottingham University
Venetian Music
The Doge's Music; music at the Scuola di S. Rocco.

Alun Davies M.A. Lecturer at Bedford College, University of London
The Classical Tradition in Italian Renaissance Literature
The Greco-Roman tradition and the Middle Ages; the rediscovery of the ancient world; epic; pastoral and romance; drama.

Dottor Mario Greco Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Venice
The Italian Political System

Michael Healey M.A. Producer, BBC Television, previously Assistant Director, Playhouse Theatre, Oxford
Theatre Workshop
Palazzo Grassi Theatre.

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Writers in Italy
Byron, Shelley, Ruskin.

Charles Hope M.A. Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
Venice and the Art of the Renaissance
Introduction; the early Renaissance in Florence; art in Central Italy in the late 15th century; the early Renaissance Northern Italy and Venice; the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome; Giorgione and his contemporaries; The emergence of Mannerism; Venice and the art of Central Italy; the career of Titian; Tintoretto, Veronese and Bassano.

Geoffrey Humphrey & Ysbrandt van Wyngarten
Drawing, Painting, Etching, Theatrical Design

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Byron's Venice

Robert McHenry B.A., D.Phil. Tutor in Social Psychology, Oxford University
Social Psychology
Non-verbal communication; cross-cultural social interaction; forming impressions of other persons; measuring the accuracy of impressions; children's ability to form impressions. Prejudice; attitude change; social psychological ideas about mental illness.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Director of the Civic Museums of Venice, Professor of History of Art, University of Padua
Venetian Art - a general introduction
A survey of Venetian architecture; the origins of Venetian painting, from the Ravenna mosaics to San Marco; trecento and early quattrocento; quattrocento - Mantegna, Carpaccio; the Bellini; cinquecento - Giorgione, Titian, Bassano, Tintoretto; seicento and early settecento - the baroque and rococo; settecento - Tiepolo and Longhi; landscape painting in the settecento - Canaletto, Guardi; Venice in settecento viewprints; architecture in Venice today.

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
Moments in Modern Art Criticism
The Revivals: Winkelmann, Cicognara, Seroux d'Agincourt, Viollet le Duc. Attributionism: Cavacaselle, Longhi.
Problems in Italian Cinquecento Architecture
Rome, from Bramante to Peruzzi; Mannerism in the North - Giulio Romano and Sanmichele; Palladio's Villas; Palladio's Churches; visit to Vicenza and Villa Barbero at Maser.

The Reverend Victor Stanley Chaplain to the English Church in Venice
Sir Henry Layard

Clive Wood M.Sc., D.Phil. Linacre College, Oxford
The Biology of Populations
The idea of Population: population growth in relation to competition and resources; studies in animal populations; growth of the world human population; human fertility and infertility; the regulation of human population size; practical problems for the world population; prospects for the future.

1975
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 4 - March 27
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome. Pensione Accademia

Lectures: Museo Correr or Pensione Lecture Room

Lecturers and Syllabus

Richard Gutch B.A., M.Phil. Senior Planning Officer, South Yorkshire County Council
Planning - Past, Present and Future
The planning process; Medieval and renaissance planning; imposed order - the baroque approach; planning in the 19th century; the year 2000; conservation; planning for transport; housing and environment; public participation in planning; who are the planners?

Dottor Mario Greco Lecturer in Economics, University of Venice
The Italian Political System

Michael Healey M.A. Producer, BBC Television, previously Assistant Director, Playhouse Theatre, Oxford
Theatre Workshop

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Byron's Venice

Nicola Le Fanu B.A. Composer
Opera
Mozart; Verdi; Wagner; why opera in the 20th century?
New Music
Music of the last ten years and its roots in 20th century music
Four talks will be on opera, five on modern music

Andrew Martindale M.A., F.S.A. Professor of the History of Art, University of East Anglia
Pisanello; the Bellini.

Marilyn Perry M.A., M.Phil. Venice.
Venice

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Director of the Civic Museums, Venice
Canaletto and the Guardi ; the Tiepolo

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
Venice An introduction to the architecture; Byzantine Art in Venice; Piazza S. Marco; the Basilica of S. Marco; Venice - the International Style; the Ducal Palace; the Scuole; Iacopo and Giovanni Bellini; Giovanni Bellini - the later years; Giorgione; Titian; Tintoretto and Veronese; Palladio; Tiepolo and Longhi; Canaletto and the Guardi; Canova and Neo-Classicism.

Robert McHenry B.A., D.Phil., Tutor in Social Psychology, Oxford University
Social Psychology
Non-verbal communication; cross-cultural social interaction; forming impressions of other persons; measuring the accuracy of impressions; children's ability to form impressions. Prejudice; attitude change; social psychological ideas about mental illness.

Christina Thoresby
Some Aspects of Carpaccio's Paintings

1976
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 3 - March 25
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome.

Lectures: Museo Correr or Pensione

Lecturers and Syllabus

Sir Ashley Clarke
Restoration in Venice
Visit to a site

Maeve Denby B.A. Research Director for Department of the Environment, Parliamentary Candidate 1970, 1974
The Nature of Politics
What politics is about; political theory - does it relate to practice? The two-party system - is it the best? Individual political attitudes - what do they imply? Principle and practice - the dilemma; politics and education; politics and psychology; economic growth - the aim of all parties? International politics: Italy, Germany, and U.S.A.

Dottor Mario Greco Lecturer in Economics, University of Venice
The Italian Political System

Michael Healey M.A., Producer. BBC Television, previously Assistant Director, Playhouse Theatre, Oxford
Theatre Workshop
Palazzo Grassi Macbeth.

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Byron's Venice

Else Mayer-Lismann Hon. R.C.M., Official Lecturer for the Glyndebourne Festival, Artistic Director of the Mayer-Lismann Opera Workshop
The Art Of Opera
The birth of opera, with special reference to Venice; the conventions of opera and the position of the singer; opera and music drama; great operatic characters; W. A. Mozart - operatic composer "par excellence"; discussion of a Mozart opera; Verdi and Wagner; introduction to a Verdi opera; introduction to a Wagner opera.

Marilyn Perry M.A., M.Phil.
Venice

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
A survey of Venetian painting and architecture: Venice
An introduction to the architecture; the Piazza; the Basilica; the Ducal Palace; the Scuole; the Bellini; Giorgione; Titian; Veronese; Palladio; Tiepolo and Longhi; Canaletto and the Guardi; Canova and Neo-Classicism.

Christina Thoresby
Some Aspects of Carpaccio's Paintings
Lorenzo Lotto

Nicholas True B.A. John Whitgift Research Student in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Venice and Byzantium
The fall of the Roman Empire; Aquileia and Grado - the origins of Venice; the development of mosaics from Classical to Byzantine styles; Ravenna and its mosaics (visit); the growth of Venice 650 - 1050; mosaic art in Italy from the 7th century - Rome, Torcello, S.Marco; the development of the Venetian constitution; Venice as a Mediterranean power, 1050 to the 4th Crusade.

Norman Williams B.A., M.Ed. Principal Lecturer in Psychology, Bulmershe College of Higher Education
Psychology - An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Human Behaviour
This part of the course will be based on students' participation in a series of workshop activities, supplemented by lectures, designed to provide insight into the approach of modern psychology to the explanation of human behaviour. Experimental work will be in the following fields; interpersonal relations; interaction analysis; conformity and leadership. The course will also include statistical analysis of psychological data.

1977
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 7 - March 28
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome. Pensione Lydia

Lectures: Palazzo Fortuny, Museo Correr or Pensione

Lecturers and Syllabus

Sir Ashley Clarke
Restoration in Venice
Visit to a site

John Cobb B.A., B.M.Ch., M.R.C.P., M.R.C. Psych. Institute of Psychiatry, London
Why Psychiatry?
'Normality' and 'Madness' - both myths? Models of mental illness; a 'sick' society or 'sick' individual? can sex be unhealthy? What is analysis? What is behaviourism? Do psychiatrists have to be doctors? indoctrination and sensory deprivation; the history of psychiatry; group interaction.

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Shelley, Ruskin

Pat Keysell Director BBC Vision On
Mime - Palazzo Fortuny

Professor Andrew Martindale Professor of the History of Art, University of East Anglia
Venetian Painting to Giovanni Bellini

Marilyn Perry M.A., M.Phil.
Venice

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
A survey of Venetian painting and architecture
Venice - an introduction to the architecture; the Piazza; the Basilica; the Ducal Palace; the Scuole; the International Gothic style; Jacopo and Giovanni Bellini; Giorgione; Titian; Tintoretto; Veronese; Palladio; Tiepolo and Longhi; Canaletto and the Guardi; Canova and Neo-Classicism.

John Rutter M.A., B.Mus. Composer, Director of Music, Clare College, Cambridge, Lecturer in Music, the Open University
Music - Past, Present and Future
Listening to music; Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic - four ideals; turning points in musical history; opera - from Mozart to Verdi; opera now; what makes great music great? how composers compose; Pop and Classical - strangers or brothers? the avant-garde through the ages; where to next?

Phillip Rylands B.A.
Palma il Vecchio

Christina Thoresby
Some aspects of Carpaccio's Paintings; Lorenzo Lotto

Nicholas True B.A. Sometime John Whitgift Research Student in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Venice and Byzantium
The fall of the Roman Empire; Byzantium-Rome continued until 1025; theory and conventions of early Christian and Byzantine art; Ravenna; the origins and development of Venice; Venice and Byzantium; conflicts and contact; the importance of the idea of 'Rome' in Venice and Italy; the decline and fall of Byzantium.

1978
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
January 31 - March 20
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Pensione Centrale
Rome. Pensione Lydia

Lectures: Palazzo Fortuny, Museo Correr or Pensione

Lecturers and Syllabus

Sir Ashley Clarke
Restoration in Venice
Visit to a site

Nicholas Goncharoff D.Phil., Director. YMCA International, New York
The Soviet Union
Challenges of the first global civilization; the Soviet political elite and internal developments in the USSR; the development of dissent in the USSR; Moscow, Western Europe, Washington and Eastern Europe; the arts in the USSR.

Tom Hammond Music Consultant to the English National Opera, Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the London Opera Centre
Italian Opera
How opera began; how an opera is produced; the words in opera; the great Italian opera composers; great Italian singers

Nick Hawtree
Theatre Workshop
Palazzo Fortuny Goldoni La Locandiera.

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Elizabeth Mostyn-Owen B.A.
Iconography - Symbols and Subjects in Italian Art
Early Christian art in Rome; the Golden Legends; the saints and the development of the 'sacra conversazione' altarpiece

Andrew Martindale Professor of Art History, University of East Anglia.
Venetian and Northern Italian painting to Giovanni Bellini
Introduction; the trecento and early quattrocento including Giotto in Padova and Duccio in Sienna; from Gentile di Fabriano to Giovanni Bellini, including Mantegna, the Ferrara painters and Donatello.

Charles McCorquodale M.A.
Italian Painting from High Renaissance to Baroque

Marilyn Perry M.A., D.Phil.
Venice

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
A survey of Venetian painting and architecture
Venice - an introduction to the architecture; the Basilica; the Ducal Palace; the Scuole; Venetian architecture as the image of the state; Venetian architecture as the image of the individual; the Piazza and the Piazzetta; Giorgione; Titian; Tintoretto; Veronese; Palladio; Tiepolo and Longhi; Canaletto and the Guardi; Canova and Neo-Classicism.

Christina Thoresby
Some aspects of Carpaccio; Lorenzo Lotto; The Independent Realists
Van Eyck; Pisanello; Caravaggio; Georges de la Tour; Rembrandt; Wright of Derby.

Nicholas True B.A. Sometime John Whitgift Research Student in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Venice and Byzantium
The fall of the Roman Empire; Byzantium-Rome continued until 1025; theory and conventions of early Christian and Byzantine art; Ravenna; the origins and development of Venice; Venice and Byzantium: conflicts and contact; the importance of the idea of 'Rome' in Venice and Italy; the decline and fall of Byzantium.

Sandy Wilson Composer, writer of 'the Boy Friend'
The Musical - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1979
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 5 - March 26
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: Palazzo Fortuny, Museo Correr or Pensione

Lecturers and Syllabus

Dr. John Cobb M.R.C.P., M.R.C. Psch., B.A. (Oxon) Consultant at St. George's Hospital, Senior Lecturer, London University
Inner Worlds and the Outer World
A series of seminars will examine how attitudes and emotions colour the way in which the outside world is perceived, both in a psychological and aesthetic sense. As a counterbalance, an introduction will be given to the way that anatomy, biochemistry and life experience interact in the production of thoughts, feelings, fantasies and dreams.

Nicholas Goncharoff D.Phil. Director, YMCA International, New York
The Soviet Union
Challenges of the first global civilization; the Soviet political elite and internal developments in the USSR; dissent in the USSR; the arts in the USSR

John Hale F.B.A. Historian, Professor of Italian, University College, London
Venetian History
The Venetian empire; the myth of Venice; the Venetian patriciate: a unique governing class; when did Venice decline?

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Diana Kaley
The Scuola Grande S.Giovanni Evangelista

Charles McCorquodale M.A.
Italian Art 1500 - 1800
The High Renaissance; Florentine Mannerism: the triumph of the artificial; Michelangelo; the Counter Reformation and the arts; Caravaggio and the Carracci; Bernini; Borromini; Italian Baroque painting; the Grand Tour; the twilight of Italian art.

Andrew Martindale Professor of Fine Arts, University of East Anglia
From Gothic to Renaissance

Marilyn Perry M.A., D.Phil.
Venice

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
A survey of Venetian painting and architecture
Venice - an introduction to the architecture; the mosaics in the Basilica; the International Gothic tradition; Mantegna and classical archaeology; the Venetian visit of Antonello da Messina; the Bellini family; Carpaccio; Giorgione; Titian; Lotto; Tintoretto; Veronese; Palladio; Longhi; Tiepolo; Guardi; Canaletto; Canova and Neo-Classicism; Venice in the 19th century.

Nicholas True B.A. Sometime John Whitgift Research Student, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Venice and Byzantium
The transformation of the Roman world; Byzantium and the imperial ideal; what were mosaics for? the mosaics at Ravenna; Venice and the Byzantium: the exchange of imperium; attitudes to empire in the Venetian consciousness; the end of the Byzantine world; Venice, Byzantium and the "spread" of classical learning.

1980
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 4 - April 9
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: Palazzo Fortuny, Museo Correr, Georgio Cini Foundation or Dante Alighieri Society

Lecturers and Syllabus

Jeffrey Daniels M.A. Director, The Geffrye Museum
Venetian painting from Titian to Tiepolo
Titian; Tintoretto; Veronese; the 17th Century; Ricci and the Rococo; Tiepolo

John Hale F.B.A. Historian, Professor of Italian, University College, London
Aspects of Venetian, Florentine and Roman history
Renaissance Venice, an Imperial capital; the Venetian patriciate; portrait of a governing class; myths of Venice; the cultural leadership of Florence in the Renaissance; Rome: the Renaissance Popes and their city.

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A., Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Pat Keysell B.B.C. Vision On
Theatre Workshop - Mime

Patrick Kinmonth B.A.
Some modern painters
How to see - a textbook; hawk and handsaw - the principle of abstraction; flat painting; Picasso; Munch; Yeats; English painting to begin with: Grant, Spencer, Hockney, Kitaj, Freud; the Americans; matters of survival.

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Byron in Venice

Charles McCorquodale M.A.
Central Italian Art 1500 -1800
The High Renaissance; Florentine Mannerism: the triumph of the artificial; Michelangelo; the Counter Reformation and the arts; Caravaggio and the Carracci; Bernini; Borromini; Italian Baroque painting; the Grand Tour; the twilight of Italian art.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University
Some Venetian painters
Venice - an introduction to the architecture; Giorgione; the Guardi; Canaletto.

Roger Rawcliffe M.A.
The origins of European architecture

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
Art in the Veneto from the Byzantine Period to 1500
Byzantine art: Ravenna, Grado, Aquileia; the Langobard civilization in Cividale; the Basilica of S. Marco and Torcello; architecture and sculpture of the 12th and 13th centuries in the Veneto; 14th century painting in the Veneto; Giotto, Guarienti, Altichiero, Tommaso da Modena, Guisto de'Menabuoi, Paolo and Lorenzo Veneziano; 14th century sculpture in the Veneto; the late Gothic style in the Veneto: Ca'd'Oro, Giacobello, Giambono, Gentile da Fabriano, Jacopo Bellini, the Bon Family; Tuscan influence and the early Renaissance in the Veneto; Lombard influence on Renaissance architecture and sculpture in the Veneto; the great cycles: Carpaccio, Gentile Bellini; Antonella da Messina in Venice and the later work of Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini.

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Lotto

Nicholas True B.A. Sometime Whitgift Research Student, Peterhouse, Cambridge
The Roman Tradition
Classical antiquity: the Augustian Ideal, Rome and Empire; the Christian churches and classical tradition; mirrors of antiquity - the Byzantine civilization and Western 'empires'; Rome in the second millenium: the political tradition, the religious inheritance, literature and the Ideal of Happiness; the divergence of East and West.

1981
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 9 - April 15
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

Robin Griffith-Jones B.A. Christie's
Venetian Humanism and the Renaissance of Thought
Petrarch and the enemies of Humanism; the Ancient World and the Civil Ideal; Platonism and the Florentine Academy; the arrival of printing.

John Hale F.B.A. Historian, Professor of Italian, University College, London
Venice; Florence; Rome

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Browning; Ruskin

Patrick Kinmouth B.A.
'The Temples of Delight'
A series of readings and discussions on the obsessions and dimensions of the creative imagination, with special reference to Keats, Yeats, Picasso and our own time

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Byron in Venice; the Venetian Palace

Christopher Lloyd M.Litt. Assistant Keeper, Ashmolean Museum
The role of Venice in early Italian painting
Techniques; fresco painting and panels; Assisi; pre-Giottesque problems; Giotto; Siena in the 14th century; Masaccio; Donatello's Paduan altarpiece; Perspective: Uccello, Baldovinetti, Pollaiuolo; Verrocchio; early painting in the Veneto; Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini.

Andrew Matthews Professor in Psychology, St. George's Hospital, London
Experience and Behaviour
Brain and mind; seeing the world; remembering and forgetting; learning about emotions; myths and mental illness.

Charles McCorquodale M.A.
High Renaissance and Baroque
Giorgione; Titian; Pontormo; Bronzino; Caracci; Bernini

Rodney Milnes Associate Editor of Opera Magazine, Opera Critic The Spectator
Opera: Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
'Drama per Musica' - the classical ideal in the 17th century; 'Fine Feelings and Good Form': the world of opera seria; Comedy and Revolution: Mozart and Rossini; Bel Canto versus Melodrama: Donizetti, Verdi; Verismo: realism unleashed - Puccini and his contemporaries; back to the First Principles: Wagner as a reformer; principles developed: Wagner and the 'complete work of Art'.

Peter Phillips Editor of EARLY MUSIC GAZETTE
Venice as a stylistic centre for sacred music: 1550 - 1750
The origins of coro spezzato: Willaert; the two Gabrieli; Monteverdi's sacred music; sacred music in Venice in the High Baroque; Vivaldi; Venetian influence in Italy: Lassus and Palestrina; Venetian influence in Germany: Schutz.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University
An introduction to Venetian architecture; Tintoretto; The Guardi and Canaletto

Alex Potts Ph.D. the University of East Anglia
Tiepolo and 18th Century Venice

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, University of California Florence Program
Palladio; Piranesi; Canova

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello

Nicholas True B.A.
The Roman Tradition
Introduction: the Roman Inheritance; evolution of Byzantium; the Byzantine approach to art; art and architecture in Christian Rome; the idea of Empire in Western intellectual tradition up to the Renaissance.

1982
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
February 1 - April 7
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico, Hotel Kette
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

The Right Reverend Dr. Felix Arnott former Archbishop of Brisbane, a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Committee, Chaplain of the English Church in Venice
Canterbury and Rome - can they come together?

David Ekserdjian M.A.
The Early Renaissance and Venice
Giotto; Masaccio and the early Renaissance in Florence; Donatello in Padua; Mantegna; Giovanni Bellini; the Bellini family and some Venetian alternatives: the Vivarini, Cima da Conegliano, Carpaccio.
How to look at Florence and Rome
Florence: the churches; the galleries and museums. Rome: the 15th century; Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo; Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini.

Jane Glover Lecturer in Music, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Venetian Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Monteverdi; Cavalli; Vivaldi.

John Hale F.B.A. Historian, Professor of Italian, University College, London
Venice; Florence; Rome

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A.Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Deborah Howard Ph.D. Author of 'The Architectural History of Venice'
Venetian Architecture
Urbanistica; the Byzantine and Gothic heritage; the beginnings of the Renaissance in Venice; Piazza S. Marco and the Rialto; Palladio in Venice; the plague and its effect on the landscape; art and music in Venetian hospitals.

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Byron in Venice; the Venetian Palace; Restoration in Venice 1965-1971

Andrew Matthews Professor in Psychology, St. George's Hospital, London
Experience and Behaviour
Brain and mind; seeing the world; remembering and forgetting; learning about emotions; myths and mental illness.

Charles McCorquodale M.A.
Giorgione and Giorgionism; Titian; Correggio; Bronzino and Pontormo

Rodney Milnes Associate Editor, Opera Magazine
Opera: Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
Sensibility and Sense: opera seria and Gluck's reforms; Comedy and Revolution: the world of Mozart; the Age of bel canto: Bellini and Donizetti; Comedy and Anarchy; Rossini and the rise of operetta; Verdi and the triumph of dramatic truth; outside influence from East and West: Russian and French opera; Realism unleashed: Puccini and his contemporaries; Wagner and 'the complete work of art'; Wagner - the reluctant humanist; the elements of performance; pressures and practicalities.

Peter Phillips Professor, Royal College of Music, Director The Tallis Singers
Venice as a stylistic centre for sacred music: 1550 - 1750
The origins of coro spezzato: Willaert; the two Gabrieli; Monteverdi's sacred music; sacred music in Venice in the High Baroque; Vivaldi; Venetian influence in Italy: Lassus and Palestrina; Venetian influence in Germany: Schutz.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University
Tintoretto; Veronese; Tiepolo; the Guardi and Canaletto

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, Syracuse University Florence Program
Palladio; Piranesi; Canova

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Lotto

Nicholas True B.A.
The Roman Tradition
The Roman Inheritance; evolution of Byzantium; the Byzantine approach to art; art and architecture in Christian Rome; the idea of Empire in Western intellectual tradition.

1983
The Contemporary Europe Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
January 31 - March 30
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

David Ekserdjian M.A.
The Venetian response to the Renaissance
Giotto in Padua; International Gothic and Venice; Mantegna; Giovanni Bellini; Cima and Carpaccio - two alternatives to Bellini.

Jane Glover Lecturer in Music, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Seventeenth Century Opera
Courtly experimentation in Italy; Venetian achievement; French chauvinism; English isolation; the period of change

John Hale F.B.A. Historian, Professor of Italian, University College, London
Petrarch and Humanism; Machiavelli and Politics; Castiglione and Behaviour
Florence - historical introduction
Rome - historical introduction

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Charles Hope Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London
Giorgione and his Followers
The historical background; the young Titian; Giorgione and Guilio Campagnola; Sebastiano and other 'Giorgioneschi'
Introduction to Iconography
Decorum; religious imagery; allegory and myth; programmes and their compilers

Peter Lauritzen B.A.
Venetian History - an introduction.
Byron in Venice; the Venetian Palace; Restoration in Venice 1965-1971

James Macdonald B.A. Diploma Student, Lecoq School of Drama, Paris
Mime classes

Peter Phillips Professor, Royal College of Music, Director The Tallis Scholars
Venice as a stylistic centre for sacred music: 1550 - 1750
The origins of coro spezzato: Willaert; the two Gabrieli; Monteverdi's sacred music; sacred music in Venice in the High Baroque; Vivaldi; Venetian influence in Italy: Lassus and Palestrina; Venetian influence in Germany: Schutz.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University
Titian; Tintoretto and Veronese; the Tiepolo and Longhi; Canaletto and the Guardi

William Pinarello
Economic aspects of life in Venice today

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, Syracuse University Florence Program
Palladio in the Veneto; Piranesi; Canova

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Lotto

Nicholas True B.A.
Byzantine Art: an introduction; Ravenna; Byzantium and Venice

1984
The 20th Pre- University Course in Venice
Spring
January 30 - March 28
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Pensione Medici
Rome. Hotel Capitale

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

David Ekserdjian M.A. Christie's Junior Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford
The Venetian response to the Renaissance
Giotto in Padua; International Gothic and Venice; Mantegna; Giovanni Bellini; Cima and Carpaccio - two alternatives to Bellini.

Jane Glover Lecturer in Music, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Musical Director, Glyndebourne Touring Opera
Seventeenth Century Opera
Courtly experimentation in Italy; Venetian achievement; French chauvinism; English isolation; the period of change

Robin Griffith-Jones M.A.
"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate.
The Bounds of Chaos; Beauty as Truth; the Word made Flesh; 'Dwarfs on the Shoulders of Giants'; 'Cogito Ergo Sum'; 'Intimations of Immortality'; Of Natural Law; 'Time, like a vast shadow moved…'

David Hemsoll M.A.
Antiquity and Nature in the Fifteenth Century
Masaccio: Nature and the Antique; Perspective and Nature; Brunelleschi and the Antique; Antiquities in the 15th century
Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Charles Hope Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London
Giorgione and his Followers
The historical background; the young Titian; Giorgione and Guilio Campagnola; Sebastiano and other 'Giorgioneschi'.
Introduction to Iconography
Decorum; religious imagery; allegory and myth; programmes and their compilers.

Deborah Howard Ph.D. Author of The Architectural History of Venice
Venetian Architecture
Urbanistica; the Gothic heritage; the Scuole; Piazza S. Marco; the plague and its effect on the landscape.

Ronnie Katzenstein M.A. Harvard
From Byzantine to Gothic
Byzantine art in Venice: the Pala D'Oro and objects in the Treasury of San Marco; pictorial art and the art trade in early trecento Venice.

Peter Lauritzen B.A. Author of Palaces of Venice, Venice: 1,000 years of Culture and Civilization, The Islands and Lagoons of Venice, UNESCO report: Venice Restored
Venetian History - an introduction.
Byron in Venice; the Venetian Palace; Restoration in Venice 1965-1971

James Macdonald B.A. Diploma Student, Lecoq and Gaulier Schools of Drama, Paris
Commedia dell' Arte
There will also be a series of practical sessions in theatrical method

Rodney Milnes Associate Editor, Opera Magazine
Opera; Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
Sensibility and Sense: opera seria and Gluck's reforms; Comedy and Revolution: the world of Mozart; the Age of bel canto: Bellini and Donizetti; Comedy and Anarchy; Rossini and the rise of operetta; Verdi and the Risorgimento; Verdi and the triumph of dramatic truth; outside influence from East and West: Russian and French opera; Realism unleashed: Puccini and his contemporaries; Wagner and 'the complete work of art'; Wagner - the reluctant humanist; the elements of performance; pressures and practicalities.

John Julius Norwich
The Normans in the Mediterranean; the Eastern and Western Roman Empire and Venice

Nicholas Penny Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
Ideals and Temptations for Post Renaissance Artists
The Antique; Raphael; Titian; 'Nature'; more and less heroic narrative painting.
High Renaissance and Baroque Rome
Raphael and the Stanze of the Vatican; Caravaggio and the 17th century Classicism; ceiling painting from Raphael to Padre Pozzo; chapels and small churches; antique sculpture collections and the early groups of Bernini; tombs and shrines by Bernini, his rivals and followers; new facades, palaces, fountains, obelisks and streets.

Peter Phillips Professor, Royal College of Music, Director The Tallis Scholars
Venice as a stylistic centre for sacred music: 1550 - 1750
The origins of coro spezzato: Willaert; the two Gabrieli; Monteverdi's sacred music; sacred music in Venice in the High Baroque; Vivaldi; Venetian influence in Italy: Palestrina and Lassus; Venetian influence in Germany: Schutz.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University
Tintoretto and Veronese; Canaletto and the Guardi

William Pinarello
Economic aspects of life in Venice today

Sarah Quill Photographer
There will be a practical photographic project resulting in the showing of a programme of slides with linked music and titles.

Stella Rudolph B.A., Laurea, Lecturer in Art History, Syracuse University Florence Program
Palladio in the Veneto; Piranesi; Canova

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Lotto

Nicholas True B.A.
Byzantine Art: an introduction; Ravenna; Byzantium and Venice

Catherine Whistler M.A. Dublin University
Tiepolo

1985
The Pre- University Interim Course
Spring
January 19 - March 19
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

Jane Glover Lecturer in Music, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Musical Director, Glyndebourne Touring Opera
The development of the orchestra
Beginnings; the Baroque orchestra; the Classical orchestra; the Romantic orchestra; the 20th Century orchestra.

David Hemsoll M.A.
Antiquity and Nature in the 15th Century
Masaccio: Nature and the Antique; Perspective and Nature; Brunelleschi and the Antique; Antiquities in the 15th Century; Nature versus Antiquity in the later 15th Century.

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Charles Hope Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London
Giorgione and his Followers
The historical background; the young Titian; Giorgione and Guilio Campagnola; Sebastiano and other 'Giorgioneschi'.
Introduction to Iconography
Decorum; religious imagery; allegory and myth; programmes and their compilers.

Deborah Howard Ph.D. Author of The Architectural History of Venice'
Venetian Architecture
Urbanistica; the Gothic heritage; the Scuole; Piazza S.Marco; the plague and its effect on the landscape.

John Francis Lane Critic and television filmmaker
The Art of Cinema
This will include viewings of films.

James Macdonald B.A. Diploma Student, Lecoq and Gaulier Schools of Drama, Paris
Commedia dell' Arte
There will also be a series of practical sessions in theatrical method.

Rodney Milnes Associate Editor, Opera Magazine
Opera: Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
Sensibility and Sense: opera seria and the Gluck's reforms; Comedy and Revolution: the world of Mozart; the Age of bel canto: Bellini and Donizetti; Comedy and Anarchy; Rossini and the rise of operetta; Verdi and the Risorgimento; Verdi and the triumph of dramatic truth; outside influence from East and West: Russian and French opera; Realism unleashed: Puccini and his contemporaries; Wagner and 'the complete work of art'; Wagner - the reluctant humanist; the elements of performance; pressures and practicalities.

Nicholas Penny Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
Art and Values
Patronage and collecting; genius and originality; style and evolution; Classics and Primitives; museums and modern art.
High Renaissance and Baroque Rome
Raphael and the Stanze of the Vatican; Caravaggio and the 17th Century Classicism; ceiling paintings from Raphael to Padre Pozzo; chapels and small churches; antique sculpture collections and the early groups of Bernini; tombs and shrines by Bernini, his rivals and followers; new facades, palaces, fountains, obelisks and streets.

Peter Phillips Professor, Royal College of Music, Director The Tallis Scholars
Sacred music from plainsong to the present day
The plainsong heritage; the New Art 1250-1400 and International style - the Netherlands abroad; the Great Florid tradition in England 1350-1500; functional music - the Protestant Reformation; the Catholic response in Venice; operatic church music - Bach to Haydn; church music in an age of Agnosticism.

Professor Dott. Terisio Pignatti Professor of the History of Art, Venice University
Tintoretto and Veronese; Canaletto and the Guardi

William Pinarello
Economic aspects of life in Venice today

Sarah Quill Photographer
There will be a practical photographic project resulting in the showing of a programme of slides with linked music and titles.

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Lotto

Nicholas True M.A.
Byzantine Art: an introduction; Ravenna; Byzantium and Venice

1986
The Pre- University Interim Course
Spring
anuary 26 - March 25
Director: John Hall
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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

Ian Campbell D.Phil. Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Venetian Architecture
The fabric of the city; Byzantine and before; Gothic and early Renaissance; High Renaissance and later Cinquecento; Baroque and after.

Tracey Cooper MFA
Palladio - Architecture and Decoration
Palaces; villas; churches.

David Ekserdjian M.A. Christie's Junior Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford
The Venetian response to the Renaissance
Giotto in Padua; Gothic painting in Venice; Mantegna; Giovanni Bellini; Cima da Conegliano; Carpaccio; Giorgione; Titian; Tintoretto.

Sir John Hale Professor of Italian History, University College, London
Petrarch; Machiavelli; Castiglione; the Medici

Sandy Heslop B.A., F.S.A. Lecturer, University of East Anglia
The architecture of S. Marco; the Pala d'Oro and Byzantine metalwork in Venice.

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Geoffrey Humphries Artist
Life Drawing classes

John Francis Lane Critic and television filmmaker
The Italian cinema tradition
Showings of films; Visconti - Senso; Fellini - La Dolce Vita; Antonioni - The Passenger; the Taviani Brothers - Padre, Padrone; Olmi - L'Albero degli Zoccoli.

Peter Lauritzen B.A. Author of Palaces of Venice, Venice: 1,000 years of Culture and Civilization, The Islands and Lagoons of Venice, UNESCO report: Venice Restored.
Venetian History - an introduction.
Restoration in Venice 1965-1971; the Venetian Palace; Byron in Venice; Palladio

James Macdonald B.A.
Commedia dell' Arte
Drama classes.

Rodney Milnes Associate Editor, Opera Magazine, Music Critic, The Spectator
Opera: Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
Dramma per musica: opera in its purest form - Monteverdi and Cavalli; Sensibility and Sense: opera seria and Gluck's reforms; Comedy and Revolution: the world of Mozart; the Age of bel canto: Bellini and Donizetti; Comedy and Anarchy; Rossini and the rise of operetta; Verdi and the Risorgimento; Verdi and the triumph of dramatic truth; outside influence from East and West: Russian and French opera; Realism unleashed: Puccini and his contemporaries; Wagner and 'the complete work of art'; Wagner - the reluctant humanist; the elements of performance; pressures and practicalities.

Terisio Pignatti Professor of Art History, University of Venice
Veronese; Canaletto and Guardi; Tiepolo

Peter Phillips Professor, Royal College of Music, Director The Tallis Scholars, Music Critic, The Spectator
Sacred music from plainsong to the present day
The plainsong heritage; the New Art 1250-1400; an International style - the Netherlands abroad; the Great Florid tradition in England 1350-1500; functional Music - the Protestant Reformation; the Catholic response in Venice; operatic church music - Bach to Haydn; church music in an age of Agnosticism.
The History of the Orchestra
Modern instruments and their early progenitors; the birth of the classical symphony orchestra: Haydn and Mozart; the growth of the orchestra in Romantic music; Beethoven to Mahler; the fragmentation of the orchestra in 20th century music: Strauss, Debussy and Stravinski.

Timothy Prus B.A.
Art and style in Italy in the 20th century
The origins of the 20th century style; art in Italy 1890 -1945; Italian architecture and design 1890-1945; Italian architecture and design 1945-1986; the classical tradition in 20th century Italy.

Sarah Quill Professional photographer specialising in cinema stills photography, opera and Venice
Instruction on practical photography, combined with illustrated lecture: a brief history of photography and early photographers; film stock and learning how to make the most of your camera; portrait, press and architectural photography; the importance of selection and composition; the power of the camera in recording events and in transforming reality into illusion.

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Lotto; Leonardo da Vinci

Nicholas True M.A.
Byzantine Art: an introduction; Ravenna; Byzantium and Venice

Caroline Villers M.A. Courtauld Institute
Painting technique
Egg tempera painting - Italian trecento and quattrocento techniques; oil painting - 15th Century Netherlands techniques; the Medieval and Renaissance palette; Venetian painting and techniques; Impressionist painting and techniques.

Rosella Zorzi Lecturer, University of Venice
Ezra Pound's Venice
The Renaissance and Mannerism in Florence
The rebirth of classical values; patrons, artists and taste in 15th Century Florence; the religious life and art in 15th Century Florence; High Renaissance painting and architecture in Florence; Mannerist painting in Florence.
An introduction to Art in Rome
Classical Rome; Early Rome; High Renaissance - the return to the antique; Baroque Rome - Bernini and Borromini.

1987
The Pre- University Interim Course
Spring
January 25 - March 24
Director: John Hall

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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence.
Rome.

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

Jane Glover Artistic Director, London Mozart Players
Mozart
The child prodigy; the mature genius.

Godfrey Goodwin R.A.D.A. Director Royal Asiatic Society, Deputy Editor, Macmillan's Dictionary of Art
Art and Architecture in Non-European Civilizations
Structure 1: pyramid, bridge, arch, dome and tower; structure 2: tent, walls, fortresses and tombs; space in non-European art; symbol and mysticism 1, 2.

Sir John Hale Professor of Italian History, University College, London
Petrarch; Machiavelli; Castiglione; the Medici

Doctor Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin

Charles Hope Ph.D. Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London
Introduction to Iconography
Decorum; religious imagery; allegory and myth; programmes and their compilers.
Giorgione and his Followers
Historical background; the young Titian; Giorgione and Guilio Campagnola; Sebastiano and other 'Giorgioneschi'.

Deborah Howard Ph.D. Lecturer, Edinburgh University, author of 'The Architectural History of Venice'
Venetian Architecture
Urbanistica; the Gothic heritage; the Scuole; Piazza S. Marco; the plague and its effect on the landscape.

Geoffrey Humphries Artist
Life Drawing classes

Peter Lauritzen B.A. Author of Palaces of Venice', 'Venice: 1,000 years of Culture and Civilization, 'The Islands and Lagoons of Venice', 'UNESCO report: Venice Restored
Venetian History - an introduction
Restoration in Venice 1965-1971; the Venetian Palace; Byron in Venice; Palladio

James Macdonald B.A.
Commedia dell' Arte
Drama classes

Rodney Milnes Associate Editor, Opera Magazine, music critic, The Spectator
Opera; Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
Dramma per musica: opera in its purest form - Monteverdi and Cavalli; Sensibility and Sense: opera seria and Gluck's reforms; Comedy and Revolution: the world of Mozart; the Age of bel canto: Bellini and Donizetti; Comedy and Anarchy; Rossini and the rise of operetta; Verdi and the Risorgimento; Verdi and the triumph of dramatic truth; outside influence from East and West: Russian and French opera; Realism unleashed: Puccini and his contemporaries; Wagner and 'the complete work of art'; Wagner - the reluctant humanist; the elements of performance; pressures and practicalities.

Peter Phillips Professor, Royal College of Music, Director, the Tallis Scholars, music critic, The Spectator
Sacred music from plainsong to the present day
The plainsong heritage; the New Art 1250-1400; an International style - the Netherlands abroad; the Great Florid tradition in England 1350-1500; functional Music - the Protestant Reformation; the Catholic response in Venice; operatic church music - Bach to Haydn; church music in an age of Agnosticism.
The History of the Orchestra
Modern instruments and their early progenitors; the birth of the classical symphony orchestra: Haydn and Mozart; the growth of the orchestra in Romantic music; Beethoven to Mahler; the fragmentation of the orchestra in 20th century music: Strauss, Debussy and Stravinski.

Terisio Pignatti Professor of Art History, University of Venice
Veronese; Canaletto and Guardi; Tiepolo

Janet Southom M.Phil Courtauld Institute
The Renaissance and Mannerism in Florence
The rebirth of classical values; patrons, artists and taste in 15th century Florence; the religious life and art in 15th century Florence; High Renaissance painting and architecture in Florence; Mannerist painting in Florence.
An introduction to art in Rome
Classical Rome; early Christian Rome; High Renaissance - the return to the antique; Baroque Rome - Bernini and Borromini.

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Lotto; Leonardo da Vinci

Nicholas True M.A.
Byzantine Art: an introduction; Ravenna; Byzantium and Venice

Caroline Villers M.A. Courtauld Institute
Painting technique
Egg tempera painting - Italian trecento and quattrocento techniques; oil painting - 15th century Netherlandish techniques; the Medieval and Renaissance palette; Venetian painting and techniques; Impressionist painting and techniques.

Rosella Zorzi Lecturer, University of Venice
Ezra Pound's Venice

1988
The Pre- University Interim Course
Spring
January - March
Director: John Hall

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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Hotel Medici
Rome. Pensione Lydia Venier

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

David Ekserdjian M.A. Former Christie's Fellow Balliol College, Oxford and lecturer, Courtauld Institute, art critic, The Independent
Iconography
2 lectures
Venetian painting
Giotto in Padua; Mantegna and Bellini; Giorgione and painting around 1500; Tintoretto and Veronese.

Kenneth Garlick Ph.D. Former Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Italian Renaissance

Jane Glover M.A., D.Phil. Artistic Director, London Mozart Players, Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford
Mozart
The prodigy; declaration of independence; the final curtain

Sir John Hale Professor of Italian History, London University
The Italian achievement
Humanism in Italy
Petrarch; Machiavelli; Castiglione; the Medici; Renaissance Popes

Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin in Venice

Charles Hope Ph.D. Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London
Iconography
Altarpieces; religious narratives; histories - ancient and modern; mythology and allegory; Veronese and secular decoration in Venice

Deborah Howard Ph.D. Lecturer, Edinburgh University, author of The Architectural History of Venice
Venetian Architecture
The Venetian townscape; traditional building types; improving the public image; Piazza San Marco; the plague and its architectural consequences.

Peter Lauritzen M.A. Author of Palaces of Venice, Venice: 1,000 years of Culture and Civilization, The Islands and Lagoons of Venice, UNESCO report: Venice Restored
Venetian History 1, 2.
Restoration in Venice
The Venetian Palace
Byron in Venice
Palladio

John Matthews Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford
Rome and Holy Rome
Myths of Empire

Nigel McGilchrist B.A. Consultant to Sovraintendenza alle Belle Arti, Rome, Director, the Anglo-Italian Institute, Rome
Ancient Rome
An introduction

Rodney Milnes M.A. Editor, Opera Magazine, music critic, The Spectator
Opera: Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
Drama through music - Monteverdi to bel canto; literary opera - Gluck to Wagner; Mozart, Rossini and the world of comedy; Verdi and dramatic truth; Puccini - realism unleashed.

Peter Phillips B.A. Professor, Royal College of Music, Director, The Tallis Scholars, music critic, The Spectator
Nationalism in music
A history of sacred music
Plainsong - the New Art (1250-1400); an International style - the Netherlanders abroad; functional Music - the Protestant Reformation; the Catholic response in Venice; operatic church music - Bach to Haydn; church music in an age of Agnosticism.
The orchestra
The birth of the classical symphony orchestra; the growth of the orchestra; Beethoven to Mahler

Terisio Pignatti Professor of Art History, University of Venice
Canaletto and the Guardi; Tiepolo

Timothy Prus B.A. Art dealer
Modern art in Italy
An introduction to 20th century art and design; Marinetti and futurism; technology and art in Italy 1909 -1939; De Chirico and metaphysical painting; art in Italy 1945-1987

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Leonardo da Vinci; Lorenzo Lotto

Nicholas True M.A. former Whitgift Research Student, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Byzantine civilisation
Byzantine art; Ravenna; Venice and Byzantium

Caroline Villers M.A. Lecturer, Courtauld Institute, London University
Media and techniques in painting
Italian quattrocento painting techniques; early Netherlandish painting techniques; Venetian painting techniques; Impressionist painting techniques.

Jon Whiteley Ph.D. Assistant Keeper, Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Renaissance art in Florence and High Renaissance art in Rome
Medieval painting in central Italy; quattrocento painting in Florence; Donatello and sculpture; Brunelleschi and architecture; Mannerism; cinquecento painting in Florence; Raphael; Michelangelo; Bernini and Borromini.

Rosella Zorzi Professor in American Literature, University of Venice, Vice-Director, Societa Dante Alighieri, Venice
Ezra Pound in Venice

ADDITIONAL CLASSES
Architectural sketchbooks - William Bird
Contemporary dance - Struan Leslie
Painting - Gregory Alexander
Life drawing - Geoffrey Humphries
Photography - Sarah Quill

Venetian-style rowing

1989
The Pre- University Interim Course
Spring
January 23 - March 19
Director: John Hall

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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Pensione Medici
Rome. Hotel Smeraldo

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

Bruce Boucher Ph.D. Lecturer, University College, London
Venice - the fabric of the city

Jane Glover M.A., D.Phil. Artistic Director, London Mozart Players, Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford
Mozart
The prodigy; declaration of independence; the final curtain

Sir John Hale Professor of Italian History, London University
The Italian achievement
Humanism in Italy; Petrarch; Machiavelli; Castiglione; the Medici; Renaissance Popes.

Bernard Hickey M.A. Professor of Commonwealth Literature, University of Venice
Ruskin in Venice

Peter Lauritzen M.A. Author of Palaces of Venice, Venice: 1,000 years of Culture and Civilizatio, The Islands and Lagoons of Venice, UNESCO report: Venice Restored
Venetian History 1, 2
Restoration in Venice
The Venetian Palace
Byron in Venice
Palladio

John Matthews Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, Lecturer, Oxford University
Rome and Holy Rome
Myths of Empire

Nigel McGilchrist B.A. Consultant to Sovraintendenza alle Belle Arti, Rome, Director, the Anglo-Italian Institute, Rome
Ancient Rome
An introduction

Rodney Milnes M.A. Editor, Opera Magazine, music critic, The Spectator
Opera; Exotic and Irrational or the Summit of Dramatic Art?
Drama through music - Monteverdi to bel canto; literary opera - Gluck to Wagner; Mozart, Rossini and the world of comedy; Verdi and dramatic truth; Puccini - realism unleashed.

Peter Phillips M.A. Professor, Royal College of Music, Director, The Tallis Scholars, music critic, The Spectator
Nationalism in music
A history of Sacred music
Plainsong - the New Art 1250-1400; an International style - the Netherlanders abroad; functional Music - the Protestant Reformation; the Catholic response in Venice; operatic church music - Bach to Haydn; church music in an age of Agnosticism.
The orchestra
The birth of the classical symphony orchestra; the growth of the orchestra; Beethoven to Mahler

Terisio Pignatti Professor, History of Art, University of Venice
Canaletto and the Guardi; Tiepolo

Timothy Prus B.A. Art dealer, specialist in 20th century Italian art
Italian art and design in the 20th century
Modern art in Italy
An introduction to 20th century art and design; Marinetti and futurism; technology and art in Italy 1909 -1939; De Chirico and metaphysical painting; art in Italy 1945-1987

Brian Pullen Ph.D. Professor of Modern History, Manchester University
Venice

Christina Thoresby
Pisanello; Leonardo da Vinci; Lorenzo Lotto

Nicholas True M.A. former Whitgift Research Student, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Byzantine civilisation
Byzantine art; Ravenna; Venice and Byzantium

Jon Whiteley Ph.D. Assistant Keeper, Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Renaissance art in Rome - Medieval painting in central Italy
Quattrocento painting in Florence; Donatello and sculpture; Brunelleschi and architecture; Mannerism; cinquecento painting in Florence; Raphael; Michelangelo; Bernini and Borromini

Rosella Zorzi Professor in American Literature, University of Venice, Vice-Director, Societa Dante Alighieri, Venice
Ezra Pound in Venice

ADDITIONAL CLASSES
Architectural sketchbooks - William Bird
Contemporary dance - Struan Leslie
Painting - Gregory Alexander
Life drawing - Geoffrey Humphries
Photography - Sarah Quill

Venetian-style rowing
Italian language classes - Società Dante Alighieri

1990
The Pre- University Interim Course
Spring
January 29 - March 18
Director: John Hall

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Accommodation:
Venice. Pensione Atlantico
Florence. Hotel Maxim
Rome. Pensione Smeraldo

Lectures: The Dante Alighieri Society (Arsenale)

Lecturers and Syllabus

John Cobb M.A. FRCS Psych. MRCP Consultant Psychiatrist, Priory Hospital
Art and meaning
Does art have meaning? inner world and outer world; perception - can I believe what I see? imagery and symbolism; the face beneath the mask.

Sonia Coode-Adams Collector of contemporary art and director of her own company which sells contemporary paintings to city corporations and others
Collecting contemporary art
A look at contemporary art - the independent group

David Ekserdjian M.A. Cambridge Ph.D Courtauld Institute, former lecturer Courtauld Institute, currently Corpus Christi College, Oxford teaching in Department of History of Art, Oxford University. Writer for The Spectator, The Independent, author of catalogue of Old Master Paintings, Thyssen-Bormanizzo collection
Venetian painting
Giotto in Padua; Mantegna and Bellini; Giorgione and painting around 1500; Titian; Tintoretto and Veronese

Jane Glover M.A. D.Phil. Director, London Mozart Players, Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, well-known conductor and broadcaster
Mozart
The prodigy; declaration of independence; the final curtain

Sir John Hale D.Litt. FBA, until recently Professor of Italian History, University College, London, formerly chairman of trustees of the National Gallery, trustee, British Museum, author of books on Florence and the Medici, The Military Organization of a Renaissance State: Venice, editor Concise Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance
Humanism in Italy
Petrarch; Machiavelli; Castiglione; the Medici.

Charles Hope M.A. D.Phil. Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, London University, formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University. An organiser of the 'Genius of Venice' exhibition at the Royal Academy, author of Titian and other publications
The particular characteristics of Venetian and Italian painting
Iconography
The altarpiece; religious narratives; history, ancient and modern; mythology and allegory; Veronese and secular decoration in Venice

Deborah Howard M.A. Cambridge, Ph.D. Courtauld Institute, FSA, Lecturer in Department of Architecture, Edinburgh University, member of Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, author of Jacopo Sansovino: architecture and patronage in Venice and The Architectural History of Venice
Venetian Architecture
The Venetian townscape; medieval building types; the old and the antique in early Renaissance Venice; improving the public image; Piazza San Marco; the plague and its architectural consequences.

Geoffrey Humphries Artist living in Venice, has exhibited throughout Europe
Life drawing classes

Peter Lauritzen M.A. Author of Palaces of Venice, Venice: 1,000 years of Culture and Civilization, The Islands and Lagoons of Venice, UNESCO report: Venice Restored
Venetian History 1, 2.
Restoration in Venice
The Venetian Palace
Palladio

Kristen Lippincott Ph.D. Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, London University, numerous publications on Renaissance subjects
The classical language of architecture

Edward Lucie-Smith M.A., FRSL, poet, art critic, The Times, The Sunday Times, The London Evening Standard, author of many books including Movements in Art since 1945 and Lives of the Great 20th Century Artists, currently working on a History of Western Civilisation
Movements in modern art
Classical modern styles; the nature of abstract art; realism in the 20th century; pop art and pop culture; art today, the 70's and 80's.

Richard MacKenney Lecturer in History, Edinburgh University, author Tradesmen and traders: the world of the guilds in Venice and Europe 1250-1650 (1987)
Italy and Western Civilisation

Rodney Milnes M.A. Editor, Opera Magazine, music critic, The Spectator, well known broadcaster
Opera
Rossini; the musician and his mask; Bellini, Donizetti - the world of bel canto; Verdi, the Colossus; Wagner, the complete work of art - realism unleashed.

Peter Phillips well known broadcaster and conductor, Professor of Music, Royal School of Music, founder-director of The Tallis Scholars (Gramophone Record of the Year Award 1987), music critic, The Spectator
Music instruments, old and new
Medieval origins; Renaissance singing; voices and instruments in the time of Bach; performance and practice in classical times; the modern orchestra

Terisio Pignatti Professor of Art History, University of Venice, formerly vice-director, the Civic museums of Venice
Venetian painting in the 18th century

Timothy Prus Ph.D. Italian Design, art dealer
Italian design

Sarah Quill photographer, specializing in Venice book illustrations and film stills including A Room with a View and 1984
Practical photography classes

Christina Thoresby resident in Venice, publications on Lorenzo Lotto
Pisanello; Leonardo da Vinci; Lorenzo Lotto

Nicholas True M.A. former Whitgift Research Student, Peterhouse, Cambridge in the field of Byzantine Studies, publications on Byzantium
Byzantine art
The origins of Byzantine style - Ravenna; the golde