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Empires & Courts of Northern Empires & Courts of Northern Italy Art, Power, Science & Culture in Medieval & Renaissance Italy October 7–15, 2016 with Professor Elly Truitt St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice by Ilee Wu Cathedral in Venice St. Mark’s Dear Bryn Mawr Alumnae/i, Friends, and Family: I am very excited to announce this exclusive custom-designed tour that is set between the two historic borders of Lombardy and the Veneto, Venice and Milan, where magnificent medieval towers, Gothic cathedrals, and Renaissance towns abound. Whether you have been to Italy multiple times or never before, this custom Bryn Mawr Alumnae tour is the perfect way for history, art, culture, and architecture lovers to be immersed in this unfrequented region of Italy. Theodora_Mosaic - Basilica San Vitale (Ravenna) by Petar Milošević Theodora_Mosaic - Basilica San Vitale This unique program highlights crucial political, scientific, and artistic centers that played roles from the 6th to 18th centuries, stretching from Venice to Milan. During your week in northern Italy you will access collections of rare books, priceless artifacts, private villas, hidden artworks, and glorious gardens. Alongside the leadership of Professor Elly Truitt, you will journey with our local experts and art historians as they reveal not only how landscape, cultural traditions, and artistic communities catalyzed the Gothic into the Renaissance, but how patron-artist relationships strategically wove the most distinct architectural region in Italy. I hope that you will join us for another unforgettable cultural journey through the Empires and Courts of Northern Italy. Sincerely, Wendy M. Greenfield Executive Director Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association Bergamo Italy by Eric Hossinger FOR QUESTIONS & INFORMATION: ISDI (Tour Operator), 202-244-1448 or [email protected] Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association, Sarah Doody at 610-526-5316 or [email protected] The Good Shephard at Mausoleum of Galla Placidia by Petar Milošević Petar by Placidia Galla of Mausoleum at Shephard Good The Villa Capponi (Florence) - Gardens by Sailko by Gardens - (Florence) Capponi Villa PRESORTED STANDARD STUDY LEADER US POSTAGE PAID Empires & Courts of Northern Italy MPM 101 North Merion Avenue 20602 with Bryn Mawr Faculty Leader, Professor Elly Truitt Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 October 7–15, 2016 Her first book, Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, was recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Between 9th and 14th centuries, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; Elly Truitt teaches medieval some served to entertain or history at Bryn Mawr instruct while others performed College. Her research is on disciplinary or surveillance medieval intellectual and functions. Variously ascribed to cultural history, especially artisanal genius, inexplicable the history of science. She cosmic forces, or demonic has published (as E. R. Truitt) powers, these marvelous articles on the history of fabrications raised fundamental automata, the development of questions about knowledge, mechanical timekeeping, astral nature, and divine purpose in science and divination, and the Middle Ages. pharmacobotany. CUSTOM ITINERARY Friday, October 7 � Departures for Milan where we see exquisite frescoes painted Depart on independent flights for Milan, by Bernardino Luini, Da Vinci’s top Italy. student. We return to our hotel nearby and enjoy the remainder of the day and dinner Saturday, October 8 � Arrivals in Milan at leisure. Upon arrival in Milan, meet your group Hotel Una Cusani, Milan (B, L) and tour director at the Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP). We depart for Monday, October 10 � Monza and the central Milan, arriving and checking into Crown of the Lombards Today we our four-star Hotel Una Cusani, facing discover Monza, north of Milan, and visit the Sforza Castle. Enjoy some time at its 14th-century cathedral with its striking, leisure in Milan before joining your fellow geometric green and white marble façade, travelers at a historic restaurant inside of resembling the dramatic Gothic façade a 400-year-old mercantile building steps of Milan’s Duomo. Beyond the high altar away from the Duomo. is the Iron Crown of Lombardy, which is Hotel Una Cusani, Milan (D) believed to have belonged to Emperor Constantine and has been coveted my Sunday, October 9 � Ducal Courts powerful rulers of the centuries, including of Milan This morning we visit the Napoleon who claimed “God gave it historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana, housing to me, woe to anyone who touches it” major literary, historic, and scientific upon his coronation day. Discover the acquisitions including Da Vinci’s Codex treasures inside the Museum of the Atlanticus; fragments of the gospels Duomo including splendid royal objects of Matthew, Mark, and Luke; and that belonged to Teodolinda, Queen of manuscripts including Homer’s Iliad and the Lombards. Enjoy an independent early editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy. lunch and time to explore the historic city Walking through Milan’s historic medieval center of Monza. Return this afternoon marketplace, we continue onto Cardinal to Milan to visit the Castello Sforzesco, Borromeo’s art gallery at the Pinacoteca built originally by Galeazzo II Visconti di Brera to see masterworks by Da Vinci, in the mid-15th century with elegant Botticelli, Mantegna, Caravaggio, and Renaissance designs by Bramante. The Titian. We pass the Teatro alla Scala castle was once the main residence of arriving at Milan’s awe-inspiring Gothic Duke Francesco “Il Moro” Sforza and Duomo. We break for a leisurely lunch decorated by Da Vinci and Bramante enjoying typical Milanese fare. This among many other artists summoned to afternoon we have the privilege of a the Duke’s court. Marvelous collections private viewing of Da Vinci’s Last Supper of antiquities, coins, paintings, and (“Cenacolo”) at Santa Maria delle Grazie. sculpture, including an unfinished work by We will also explore Bramante’s sacristy Michelangelo, fill the historic castle today. with unique late medieval and early Enjoy the reminder of the evening and Renaissance architectural features. Peak dinner at leisure. into the small church of San Maurizio Hotel Una Cusani, Milan (B) Tuesday, October 11 � Imperial Borders Basilica of San Vitale with its glittering, of Northern Italy: Lombardy and jewel-like mosaics that clad the iconic Veneto We depart Milan for Bergamo, a octagonal walls depicting Byzantine cultural crossroads perched below the Emperor Justinian and his influential Alps, where we stroll the streets inside wife, Theodora. Next door is the small, the Città Alta (high city) that was once yet artful mausoleum of Galla Placidia ruled by the Venetians for over 400 with impressive blue and gold mosaics years. Consequently, the architecture is adorning its interior walls. Follow your faced with lace-like marble decoration, local expert guide through Ravenna to and piazzas are enclosed by clusters discover the dense history of rulers who of colorful medieval buildings akin to have conquered Ravenna including the those in Venice. We visit a private 17th- Romans, Ostrogoths, and the Byzantines. century palace that is still owned by the Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant with Count’s family, decorated with Baroque fresh seafood and a favorite local dessert. artwork, and framed by a verdant garden Afterward, we discover the tomb of overlooking the Lombard hills. Gather in Dante, Italy’s highly revered “father of the old town for a lovely luncheon. Later Italian literature,” and the glorious church this afternoon we drive across Lombardy of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo dominated by below the Dolomites arriving in Padova. two rows of mosaics depicting the Three We arrive in the late afternoon and check Kings, virgins, and martyrs bearing gifts for into the historic, four-star Hotel Europa Christ and the Virgin. Late this afternoon, facing streets lined with quiet cafés we return to Padova where dinner and the and medieval brick towers. Enjoy an remainder of the evening are at leisure. independent evening exploring the artistic Hotel Europa, Padova (B) center of Padova. Hotel Europa, Padova (B, L) Friday, October 14 � Venice and the Power of the Seas This morning, depart Wednesday, October 12 � Padova: early for a full day in Venezia, “Queen Historic University City Our day in of the Adriatic,” where we meet our Padova begins with a private viewing expert art historian guide who will lead of Giotto’s glorious fresco cycle at the us through the “city of bridges” far from Capella degli Scrovegni. His masterful tourist crowds. We take private water 14th-century renderings from the life of taxis down the Grand Canal and navigate Christ and the life of Virgil are owed to his through quiet corners of Venice arriving mentorship with Florentine artists Cimabue at Santi Giovanni e Paolo, one of Venice’s and Duccio. We enter the quiet Church largest and most impressive Gothic of the Hermits, built from 1276-1306, to churches. We walk to San Marco with its see two striking frescoes by Mantegna magnificent interior clad in mosaics and depicting the Martyrdom of St. Matthew decorated with relics and artifacts gleaned and St. Christopher, which survived a from empires past. Then we discover the World War II bomb. We continue our innermost rooms and treasures of the leisurely walking tour through Padova to Basilica like the Pala d’Oro, a 10th-century see the underpinnings of university life, altarpiece made of 250 shimmering panels which began as early as 1222. Lunch is of gold. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure independent at one of Padova’s many exploring the canals of Venice or some of cafés or trattorias. This afternoon we enter the city’s museums, boutique shops, or Palazzo Bo at the University of Padova to monuments. Later this evening we gather see the magnificent anatomical theater, for a farewell dinner in one of Venice’s best the first of its kind in the world, to discover restaurants, away from the tourists and the university’s compelling scientific and crowds.
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