Art, Architecture & History

CHANTAL BROTHERTON-RATCLIFFE MA Edinburgh, PhD. Warburg Institute, teaches for Sotheby's Works of Art Course, specialising in Venetian Painting.

LOUISA BUCK MA Cambridge, MA Courtauld Institute, Journalist, broadcaster and art critic, reviewer for Radio 4's "Front Row". Author of "Moving Targets : A Users' Guide to British Art Now" - published by Tate Gallery Publications and "Owning Art: the Contemporary Art Collectors Handbook" Turner Prize Judge 2005. Contemporary Art Correspondent for The Art Newspaper and a regular contributor to Artforum, Vogue and The Guardian.

BRUNA CARUSO Graduated in History of Art and Venice, works for the Superintendency of Art, teaches for the Hofstra University and Smithsonian Study Tours. She has written for various publications on Venetian Art and Architecture.

JILL DUNKERTON MA, Restorer in the Conservation Dept., National Gallery, London. Author of numerous publications on restoration and the history of painting techniques.

CHARLES HOPE MA D.Phil., Director of the 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.

DEBORAH HOWARD MA Cambridge, MA & PhD. Courtauld Institute, FSA, FSA Scot., Hon. FRIAS and FRSE. Professor of Architectural History, Fellow of St John's College and Head of the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge. Author of "Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice", "The Architectural History of Venice", "Venice and the East."

JEREMY HOWARD MA(Oxon.), MA Courtauld Institute, is a lecturer in Art History at The University of Buckingham. He studied Italian Renaissance Art at Courtauld Institute and spent fifteen years working in the London art market first at Christie's and later at Colnaghi's. He has published many articles on aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth-century collecting with particular reference to The Grand Tour.

PETER LAURITZEN MA, Resident in Venice since 1967, author of "Palaces of Venice","Venice - a thousand years of Culture and Civilisation", "The Islands and Lagoons of Venice", 'The UNESCO report; Venice Restored', editor at large of Architectural Digest.

VIVIEN LOVELL BA, FRSA, Hon FRIBA, is a contemporary art curator specialising in the field of permanent and temporary public commissions. Director of Modus Operandi Art Consultants, formerly Founder Director of Public Art Commissions Agency She was co-publisher of "Public:Art:Space" (Merrell Holberton 1998).

EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH MA FRSL, Member of the Académie de Poésie Européenne, author of many books including "Movements in Art since 1945", "Art Today", "Lives of the Great 20th Century Artists". Has recently published a monograph on the leading feminist artist Judy Chicago.

RICHARD MACKENNEY MA, PhD., F.R.Hist.S., Professor of History, the State University of New York, Binghamton. Author of "Tradesmen and Traders: the World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, c.1250-c.1650" (1987); "Sixteenth-Century Europe" (1993), "Renaissances: the Cultures of Italy, c.1300-c.1600, (2005).

NIGEL MCGILCHRIST MA(Oxon.), has lived and worked as an Art Historian in Rome for over twenty five years. He has taught at Rome University and been Director of the Anglo-Italian Institute, and External Consultant to the Superintendence of Fine Arts of the Italian Government. Lectures widely in the USA on art and archaeology at museums and universities. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Blue Guides series, and currently writing the new Blue Guide to the monuments and archaeology of the Greek Islands.

PAULA NUTTALL PhD., Courtauld Institute. Began lecturing at the British Institute of Florence. Course Tutor for Victoria & Albert Museum's Medieval and Renaissance Year Course. Also teaches for Courtauld Institute and Christie's. Her book, "From Flanders to Florence, the Impact of Netherlandish Painting" was published by Yale in 2004.

NICHOLAS PENNY PhD., Director of The National Gallery, London. Formerly Clore Curator of Renaissance Art, National Gallery, formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford and Keeper of Dept. of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Senior Curator, European Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Books include "Raphael"(with Roger Jones), "Tastes and the Antique"(with Francis Haskell). Responsible for organising exhibitions and catalogues of numerous artists, including Reynolds.

SUSAN STEER MA, PhD. Lecturer (part time) History of Art, University of Bristol and co-tutor in History of Art for the Warwick University "Venice term" BA and MA programmes 'Art in Northern Italy 1200-1600'.

JOACHIM STRUPP PhD. (St. Andrews), has been Lecturer in History of Art at the Universities of St Andrews and Buckingham for ten years and his special field is Italian Renaissance Sculpture on which he has published several studies. Now Fellow at the University of Buckingham and co-founder of Art Pursuits which specialises in adult education and the organisation of cultural events.

NICHOLAS TRUE CBE, MA, Former Whitgift Research Student at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in the field of Byzantine Studies. Publications on Byzantium.

ANDREW TYLEY Associate Director at Richard Rogers Partnership. Architects responsible for Centre Pompidou, the Lloyds Building, London and the Millenium Project, London.

JON WHITELEY D.Phil., Senior Assistant Keeper, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He has written several books on European Art including the complete catalogues of French drawings in the Ashmolean.

Music

PETER PHILLIPS MA, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2005. Well-known broadcaster and conductor, founder Director of the Tallis Scholars (Gramophone Record of the Year Award 1987), Music critic The Spectator. Publisher of The Musical Times. Director of Music, Merton College, Oxford from autumn 2008.

JEREMY SAMS BA, Director and translator. Frequent broadcaster on opera and other music including his series, "Sams at the Opera" for Radio 3. Recent work as director includes Little Britain Live and The Sound Of Music at the London Palladium. Currently working on a new Baroque Opera for the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

MATTEO SANSONE PhD. (Edin.) is an expert on operatic literature and his special field is late nineteenth-century Italian opera on which he has published several studies. He runs the opera courses at the British Institute of Florence.

World Cinema

RYAN GILBEY is film critic of the New Statesman , and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, The Guardian and Sight & Sound. He read English and American Literature at Kent University in Canterbury and was named Young Film Journalist of the Year by the Independent in 1993. He is the author of several books, including "It Don't Worry Me", about 1970s US cinema, and a monograph on Groundhog Day in the BFI Modern Classics series.

Literature

GREGORY DOWLING MA (Oxon.), is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Venice, has written thrillers set in Italy and England, translator.

ROSELLA ZORZI Professor in American Literature, University of Venice. Director Società Dante Alighieri, Venice.

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JANE DA MOSTO MA Oxon, MSc Imperial College London. Co-author of 'The Science of Saving Venice'.

HUGH EDMEADES joined Christie's in 1978 as a specialist in the Furniture Department. Became Director in 1984 and was appointed Chairman of Christie's South Kensington in 2001.

GEOFFREY HUMPHRIES Portrait-figure artist, has lived in Venice for 40 years and exhibited throughout Europe.

WILLIAM LORIMER Christie's Continental Furniture specialist, former director of Education department and NADFAS lecturer.

DAVID NEWBOLD MA (Oxon.), MA(Reading) Linguistics, teaches English at University of Verona, author of English language teaching materials, education broadcaster, journalist, correspondent in Italy for The Times Educational Supplement.

CATHARINE ROSSI MA, studied Design in Milan and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is currently at the Royal College of Art, specialising in post-war Italian Design.

MARK SMITH Photographer, based in Venice, publications include "The Nude: a Visual Reference for the Artist" and "Palaces in Venice."