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La Serenissima: Venice, 'Jewel of the Adriatic' La Serenissima: Venice, ‘Jewel of the Adriatic’ 9 OCT – 23 OCT 2014 Code: 21432 Tour Leaders Em. Prof Bernard Hoffert Physical Ratings A detailed history of Venice visiting galleries, museums, churches & private palaces. Byzantine Ravenna, Giotto's Padua, Vicenza and attend a performance of 'Don Giovanni' at the famous La Fenice! Overview Tour Highlights It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. Erica Jong, Shylock's Daughter (1987): formerly titled Serenissima This tour is limited to 18 participants Enjoy learning about the history of Venice from a highly experienced tour lecturer, Emeritus Professor Bernard Hoffert. Bernard an art historian and artist; is the former World President of the International Association of Art-UNESCO, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University. He established the programs in art and design at Monash’s Centre in Prato, Italy. Chart the development of Venetian painting through visits to the Academia, Correr Museum, and a number of churches; view works by Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Tiepolo. Gain insights into the riches of Venetian aristocratic life with visits to private palaces including the Palazzo Albrizzi and Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Learn about the development of Venice's inimitable luxury textiles at the workshop of Luigi Bevilacqua and in the Rubelli Textile Collection. Study Venice's influence upon famous foreign writers like Lord Byron and John Ruskin with Gregory Dowling, Professor of American Literature at the University of Venice. Savor lunches at Torcello's Locanda Cipriani, made famous by Ernest Hemingway, and at John Ruskin's abode, Pensione La Calcina. Enjoy Mozart's masterpiece Don Giovanni at Venice's famous La Fenice and a private performance and reception by Rosemary Forbes-Butler in her palazzino. View Ravenna's magnificent Byzantine mosaics & Giotto's masterly frescoes in Padua's Scrovegni Chapel. Study the superb architecture of Andrea Palladio during visits to his Venetian churches, the Teatro Olympico and his palaces in Vicenza, and his Villa Maser, Villa Rotonda and Villa Foscari. Discover Venice's very early history on the lovely islands of Torcello, Burano and Murano. View modern art at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and visit the Venice Architectural Biennale held in the Arsenale (medieval shipyards). Drive through the awesome landscapes of the Dolomites to understand how Venetian merchants transported Eastern trade goods to the wealthy North. 15 DAYS IN VENICE Spend 15 days based in the charming 4-star Hotel Giorgione, ideally located in the Cannaregio district within easy walking distance of the Rialto, Ca' d'Oro and Piazza San Marco. Overview Professor Bernard Hoffert offers a comprehensive, multi-layered survey of Venice both within the city and on excursions to the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello, Byzantine Ravenna, Giotto's Padua, classical Vicenza, and Palladio's classic villas - the Rotonda, the Villa Barbaro (Veronese interior), and the masterly Malcontenta on the Brenta Canal. At Venice's exquisite Ca' d'Oro and on private visits to sumptuous palaces like the Pisani Moretta and the Gothic Corner Spinelli we explore the culture of Venice's great families. The Palazzo Corner Spinelli's precious Rubelli textile collection illustrates how manufacturing families prospered; at a private visit to the Bevilacqua family's workshops you'll see how these arts persist. You'll explore how the Venetian elite created Venice's image as 'Jewel of the Adriatic' through St Mark's rich mosaics, Titian's, Bellini's and Tintoretto's masterpieces in grand churches like San Giovanni e Paolo and the Frari and in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, and through architectural gems like the Miracoli and Palladio's San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore. The aforementioned artists' paintings in the Accademia, and the museum's priceless Giorgiones, Veroneses, Carpaccios and Tiepolos express how painters fostered Venice's unique image through lustrous light and rich painterly colour; Sansovino's monumental, recently restored Library of St Mark and the outstanding Correr Museum amplify and enrich your view. You listen to Don Giovanni at La Fenice, an (optional) evening mass at Saint Mark's and Rosemary Forbes-Butler's special private performance in her palazzino to understand music's contribution to Venice's inimitable, otherworldly, impossibly lustrous image that inspired the world. A special literary day at the Ca' Rezzonico where Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning lived, John Ruskin's historic Pensione La Calcina, where you enjoy lunch, Lord Byron's Mocenigo Palace and the Armenian island of San Lazzaro where he studied Armenian (1816) will mark how Venice inspired foreign writers. We also enjoy lunch at the famous Locanda Cipriani and afternoon tea at Caffè Florian. The Peggy Guggenheim and Venice Architectural Biennale at the medieval Arsenale shipyards signal Venice's abiding role in world culture. A journey to into the awesome Dolomites contrasts excitingly to Venice's glassy, watery world. La Serenissima: Venice, ‘Jewel of the Adriatic’ August 2014 Page 2 Leaders Em. Prof Bernard Hoffert Art historian & artist, former World President of International Assoc. of Art-UNESCO, Assoc. Dean, Monash University. Established Monash art & design programs in Prato, Italy. Bernard Hoffert is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University. He was formally Associate Dean in the Faculty of Art and Design, with responsibility for the Faculty's Higher Degree by Research program and the Faculty's International and External profile. He headed five departments while at Monash including the art school. He was the World President of the International Association of Art-UNESCO (1992-95) and remains an Honourary President; he has been Honorary President of the Asia-Pacific Regional Council of the International Association of Art- UNESCO and has continued involvement with UNESCO through the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA). He has been a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network, Columbia University since 2006 and a member of their Research Committee. He was Vice President of the Academic Board of Monash University (2008-2010). He has been a member of the Review Boards of the Art Education Research Journal, Melbourne University (2004-12), the Art Education Australia Research Journal (2004-12), and a member of the Monash Asia Institute Publication Board (MUP) from 2001-11. He has been a member of the Executive Committees of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) and Art Education Australia (AEA), and coordinated AEA's research development. He has also contributed to standing committees of Art Education Victoria and the National Association of the Visual Arts. Bernard first joined ASA in 1981, and is ASA's second longest standing group leader/lecturer. He has led over 50 tours to Europe, including programs to Italy, France, Spain, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. He has led ASA tours to most regions of Italy, including Lombardy, the Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio (Rome) and Sicily, and has a deep knowledge of the rhythms of Italian art history and Italy's profound contribution to the Western tradition. Bernard has nurtured ASA's long and fruitful relationship with Monash University, and has played a key role in the great success of Monash University's Centre in Prato, near Florence; ASA assisted Monash in developing this centre and Bernard established the flourishing Monash Art and Design undergraduate and research programs at Prato. Bernard also has a long involvement with India and has travelled extensively from the Himalayas in the north to the southern most tip of the subcontinent. He wrote the section on India in the 1987 edition of Art and Diversity (Longman) and has exhibited his paintings and presented his poetry at the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society Gallery in Delhi; his paintings are in several Indian collections. He has participated in art symposia and conferences in India and has lectured at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. His research has been published in the Indian journal Design Plus and his research on craft revival in India has been published by UNESCO and the Network of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. He contributed a chapter to the Indian text, Design Education: Tradition and Modernity, published late 2007. La Serenissima: Venice, ‘Jewel of the Adriatic’ August 2014 Page 3 Itinerary The detailed itinerary provides an outline of the proposed daily program. Participants should note that the daily activities described in this itinerary may be rotated and/or modified in order to accommodate changes in museum opening hours, flight schedules etc. Meals included in the tour price are indicated in the detailed itinerary where: B= breakfast, L=lunch and D= evening meal. Venice - 14 nights Day 1: Thursday 9 October, Arrive Venice Orientation Walk Welcome Drinks Group members travelling on the ASA ‘designated’ flight are scheduled to arrive at Venice’s Marco Polo Airport in the mid-afternoon. On arrival you will be transferred to your hotel by private water taxi. If you are travelling independently, you should meet the ASA group at the Hotel Giorgione. ASA staff can also arrange an independent transfer for you. After check-in we commence our program with a short orientation walk followed
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