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Love, Sex and Death in Venice Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2021 Love, sex and death: The constant companions of art LOVE, SEX ... AND DEATH IN VENICE – THE PERFECT LOCATION FOR ALL Ron Ramsey 3 & 4 February 2021 Lecture summary: Whilst known as La Serenissima, Venice can be anything but...a city simply like no other, it continues to fascinate and draw to it an audience ready to be immersed in its many offerings. Whilst some read its sinking back into the sea as a metaphor for death and its ultimate demise, others see Venice as a resilient and romantic escape. Looking at the art, architecture and people that have made Venice the alluring city it continues to be, this talk explores the carnal more than the Carnevale and cites examples of the colourful characters who have been drawn to it for love, sex and or to die. Slide list 1. Maps of Venice 2. Villa Alemerico Capra ‘La Rotonda’, Andrea Palladio 1567 3. Aerial view, Villa Alemerico Capra 4. Palazzo Barbarano, Vincenza 1570, Andrea Palladio 5. Chiswick House London, 1729, Ricard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, William Kent, Francis Fowke 6. Monticello Virginia USA 1772, Thomas Jefferson 7. Vintage postcard: Public Library, Museum and National Gallery, Melbourne 8. Villa Foscari ‘La Malcontenta’ 1558-1560, Andrea Palladio 9. Ca Foscari, 1453 10. Arthur Streeton, The Grand Canal, 1908, 11. Richard Westall, Lord Byron, 1813 12. Palazzo Mocenigo c 1579 13. Postcard: Venezia. Canal grande. Palazzo Foscari, Guistinian, Rezzonico 14. Minna Wagner, Richard Wagner, Mathilde Wesendonck and Ca Giustinian 15. Photograph: Cosima and Richard Wagner 16. Ca Vendramin Calergi 17. Ca Rezzonico 18. Photograph: Robert and Pen Browning 19. Pen Browning and works of art by Pen Browning 20. Titian, Pieta, 1575 21. Accademia 22. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore, Il Redentore 1592 23. Photograph: Festa del Redentore, third Sunday of July 24. San Giorgio Maggiore, 1610 25. Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, 1687 26. Photograph: Aerial view of Venice 27. Pompeo Batoni,Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion, 1767 28. Sir Joshua Reynolds, James Maitland 7th Earl of Lauderdale, 1759-1760 Proudly sponsored by: 29. Canaletto, The Piazza San Marco, Venice c.1745 30. Woburn Abbey Dining Room 31. Il bucintoro 32. Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel Paris 1808 33. Leunig, The most popular and effective coronavirus masks, 2021 34. The Plague doctor 35. Caffé Florian 1720, Floriano Francesconi 36. Western end of Piazza San Marco 37. Church of San Geminiano 1640 – 1807 38. Photographs: campanile San Marco 39. E Phillips Fox, Cathedral of San Marco, Venice, 1907 40. Arthur Streeton, St Marks Venice, 1908 41. Arthur Streeton, The Grand Canal, 1908 42. Tintoretto, San Roch in Glory, 1564 43. G B Tiepolo, St Roch, c 1730-35 44. Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Founded 1478 45. G B Tiepolo, Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743 – 44 46. Arthur Streeton, Palazzo Labia, 1912 47. Palazzo Labia from Cannaregio Canal 48. Ballroom, Palazzo Labia 49. Photographs: The Labia Ball 50. Accademia Bridge 1854 – 1933 51. Palazzo Barbaro 52. John Singer Sargent, An Interior in Venice, 1899 53. John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Boldini, c 1890 54. John Singer Sargent, Lisa DeWolfe Colt Curtis 1898 55. John Singer Sargent Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1884 56. John Singer Sargent, Ralph Curtis 57. Ralph Curtis, Drifting with the Tide 58. Ralph Curtis, The Bridge of Sighs 59. Diego Velázquez, La Meninas, 1656 60. John Singer Sargent, Venetian Street, 1880 61. John Singer Sargent,, Street in Venice, 1880 62. John Singer Sargent, Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888 63. Image of Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, Boston 64. John Singer Sargent, Mrs Charles Hunter, 1898 65. John Singer Sargent, The Misses Hunter, 1902 66. Claude and Alice Monet, Venice, 1908 67. Claude Monet, The Grand Canal, 1908 68. Claude Monet, The Doge’s Palace seen from San Giorgio Maggiore, 1908 69. Arthur Streeton, Doge’s Palace Venice, 1908 70. John Singer Sargent, John Ridgeley Carter, 1901 71. John Singer Sargent, Sir Philip Sassoon, 1923 72. John Singer Sargent, Dr Samuel Jean Pozzi at home, 1881 73. Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Otto Magnus Von Stackleberg and a friend, 1817 74. John Singer Sargent, Male studies (Nicolo d’Inverno) 75. Palazzo Venier dei Leoni 76. Photographs: Marchesa Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim 77. Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Luisa Casati, 1908 78. Augustus John, Portrait of Luisa Casati, 1919 79. Man Ray, Portrait of Luisa Casati, 1922 80. Romaine Brooks, Portrait of Luisa Casati, c1925 For access to all past lecture notes visit: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/members/events/love-sex-and-death-2021/ 81. Photograph: Valentine Browne, Viscount & Viscountess Castlerosse and Margaret Flick Hoffman 82. Photograph: Lord and Lady Kenmare 83. Photographs: Doris at the Lido 1932 and at the Palazzo Venier 1938 84. Photograph: Penny Guggenheim 85. Isola di San Michele 86. Photographs: Diaghilev, Coco Chanel, Misia Sert, Contessa Marcello and Serge Lifar and Josephine Baker at the Lido 87. Isola San Michele: Graves of Diaghilev and Stravinsky 88. Photograph: George and Amal Clooney 89. Trailer: Joseph Losey, Don Giovanni, 1979 References: Venice Rediscovered, John Pemble Italian Venice A History, R.J.B. Bosworth Venice: A Colour Guide to the City, John Kent Venice: Pure City, Peter Ackroyd Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Andrew Wilton, Ilaria Bignamini Venice, Jan Morris Canaletto, J.G. Links The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice, Judith Mackrell Venice: The Biography of a City, Christopher Hibbert Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth Century, John Julius Norwich Italian Hours, Henry James John Singer Sargent The Sensualist, Trevor Fairbrother Sargent and Italy, Bruce Robertson Venice in Old Photographs 1841 – 1920, Dorothea Ritter Proudly sponsored by: .
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