Venetian Magic
RA Lates presents a night of 16th-century Venetian opulence, inspired by the cultural legacy of Renaissance artist Giorgione and his contemporaries. Welcome to the golden age of Venice … Ground o o r
e R A e Old Gallery Café Grand Café Architecture Space Norman Shaw Staircase
Front Hall
e Sir Hugh Casson Room
Front Hall Old Gallery Café Venetian
Theatre of Illusion Paper Marbling Workshop | 7–10pm Magic Artist Vera Reshto (Central Saint Martins) Paper marbling was introduced to Europe from invites you to peer inside 15th-century Gothic the Middle and Far East. By the middle of the Food and drink Palazzi Dario and Contarini Fasan where the 18th century a family run business ‘Remondini’ mysterious atmosphere of the Carnivale and who specialised in book printing and decorating Italian Commedia dell’Arte unfold. paper was one of the most pro table companies in the entire Venetian republic. Join Ste ana Venetian Golden Leaf makeovers Filiogianni (UAL) and make your own designs Venetian baraco supper club with Tropical Bird Art | 7–10.30pm using Giorgione inspired colours. with POLPO | From 7.30pm Come and get bedecked in opulent gold leaf, Norman Shaw Stairs glitter and sequined designs by make-up artist POLPO cicheti and Spritz evoke the humble Caroline Young. e RA Grand Café Venetian baraco. Visit their pop-up supper club and enjoy artichoke & speck crostini, broad bean, pea & mint bruschetta, spring risotto and a POLPO Spritz. e Sir Hugh Casson Room Dishes £4 – £7, cards accepted. ‘Carnivale de Venezia’ | 9–11.45pm Becoming an o cial festival during the The RA Grand Café Renaissance, the Venetian Carnival is now Ruff-Making with world-famous for its decadent masks and Venetian Cocktail Bar, open from 9pm Of Crowns and Gowns | 7–9pm costumes – nally reinstated as an annual event in 1979 after an 182 year long hiatus. Get inspired by 16th-century fashion trends and make your own neck ru with Laura Archer Head to the RA’s Grand Café for an eclectic from Of Crowns and Gowns. carnival party featuring DJ sets, live music, ballerinas and dance alongside our Commedia Redeem your Venetian G&T* token in Cinema Jam presents A Dangerous Del’Arte characters – originally created to represent Italian tipi ssi (or social types). these bars until 9pm Beauty: Venice on Screen | 9.30– 11.45pm (with 15 minute interval for drinks at 10.30pm) DJs The Sir Hugh Casson Room Jared Fryer, founder of Cinema Jam, hosts 9–9.30pm Tom Beaufoy Wine and Craft Beer bar, open from 7pm tonight’s lm screening which tells the story of a 9.30–11.45pm Nico de Transilvania Reynolds Room 16th-century Venetian courtesan who becomes Dancers and Performers involved in a airs of state, until she is eventually Cristinel Hogas, Darvish Frakhr, Merlin Prosecco and Gin & Tonic bar, open from 7pm accused of witchcraft. Shepherd and dancers from Lady Greys *Courtesy of Sipsmith and Fever-Tree. Non-alcoholic option available Mezzanine Level and First oor
Norman Shaw Staircase Stairs up
President’s Corridor
Slaughter Room Saloon Council Room
General Assembly Room Reynolds Room
Vestibule Council Room General Assembly Room
Pop up Costume Shop and Make Up Daedalus’ Atelier | 7–10pm Byzantium Life Drawing with Art booth with Violet’s Box Macabre and Virgin Xtravaganzah | 7–10pm Experience Daedalus’ Atelier, home of the artist | 7–10pm Visit our Venetian pop up shop selling a and inventor who created his son Icarus’ now eneral Assembly Room selection of masks, corsets as well as a make-up infamous wings and the labyrinth that held the stand with theatrical eyelashes and tattoos. Minotaur. Delve into the mind of the skilled Join a Drawing Salon to sketch a sumptuous craftsman of Greek mythology. Installation Byzantium inspired scene, drawing inspiration Try on a mask and pose for a photo in front of created by Abby Sumrie and Alice Davies. from biblical tableaux. Renowned drag queen our Venetian scene. artist Virgin Xtravaganzah will pose decadently in gold and Hysteria Machine headdresses.
Slaughter Room Saloon Reynolds Room
Acqua Alta ‘Pool of Narcissus’ Artist’s Studio – portrait painting by | 7–10pm Lilias Buchanan A combination of astronomical tides and long Venetian Palazzo Artist Lilias Buchanan from the Royal Drawing waves in the Adriatic coast causes Venice’s School will conduct live portrait paintings, canals to ood, known as ‘Aqua Alta’, which Palazzi sprung up across Italy from the 15th seeking to capture a person’s character and their literally translates as ‘high water’. e city’s century as noble trading families grew wealthier. unique details. Sittings last between 15-20 architecture is re ected in vast pools of water, ese palaces served both as homes and minutes. and here artists Abby Sumrie and Alice businesses – ground oors acted as warehouses Davies have created a surreal interior version for ships on the Grand Canal to transport where Narcissus resides, trans xed by his own goods across the globe. Come and sip a glass of re ection. prosecco in our Palazzo style drawing room.
Venetian Magic Costume Competition More activities overleaf
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Please note that food and drink are not permitted on the Second oor
e Sackler Wing A beginner’s guide to Giorgione’s Venice In the Age of Giorgione Here are 3 key insights into one of the most | 7–10pm in uential moments in art history Trace the development of ideas that changed the course of art in this highly original Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo, 1504-5 Venice was at the cutting edge exploration of the Venetian Renaissance. Visit the Taddei Tondo, the only marble Giovanni Bellini, from the Venetian School, Bringing together iconic paintings by masters sculpture by Michelangelo in Great Britain. excelled in the tempera method of painting – a such as Titian and Giorgione, we shed new light e Tondo is one of several un nished fast-drying paint made with egg-yolk. In the on a pivotal yet little-understood moment in the sculptural works by Michelangelo, which, late fteenth century, be began to use the more history of art. since the sixteenth-century, have been the focus exible medium of oil paint and his later works of much scholarly debate. demonstrate the rich colours and atmosphere Costume Restrictions that came to characterise Venetian painting.
Before entering the exhibition, please remove Giorgione remains a mystery any masks, large costume items e.g headdresses At the centre of the exhibition is the elusive and carry them in one of the bags provided. Bel Canto opera performances by gure of Giorgione. We know very little about is is to protect the world-famous paintings his life, but know his work received immediate on display from items being knocked into them. Lia Ikkos | 7.45, 8.15, 8.45 and 9.15pm acclaim. Together with Titian, he was the We thank you in advance for your co-operation. (performances last approx. 10 minutes) pioneering gure of the Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting – credited with Listen to live Italian opera performances freeing up the medium and giving full expression by Lia Ikkos. to mood and feeling. Lascia ch’io pianga - George Frideric Handel Giorgione’s legacy is far-reaching Spotlight Talks Quella Fiamma - Benedetto Marcello Each talk lasts approx. 10 minutes Se tu m’a mi - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi If Giorgione spearheaded the stylistic innovation of the early 1500s, it was Titian who emerged Dr Maria H. Loh on old masters as early as the most important painter of sixteenth- modern celebrities | 8pm and 9pm century Venice. In his footsteps came the likes of Dr Rosa Salzberg on Cultural capital: Printing Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Bassano. and Popular Culture in Giorgione’s Venice | One hundred years on, Venice had become the 8.30pm and 9.30pm undisputed European capital of the arts.
Tonight’s programme at a glance
From 7pm From 8pm 9pm – close 7pm Activities begin 8pm 9pm Ru -making in the Sir Hugh Casson Room Spotlight talk with Dr Maria H. Loh, Sackler Galleries Spotlight talk with Dr Maria H. Loh, Sackler Galleries Carnivale de Venezia begins in the RA Grand Café Glitter makeovers in the Front Hall 8.15pm Paper Marbling workshop in the Old Gallery Café Opera performance, e Sackler Wing 9.15pm Opera performance, e Sackler Wing Byzantium Life Drawing in the General Assembly 8.30pm Room Spotlight talk with Dr Rosa Salzberg, Sackler Galleries 9.30pm Portrait painting in the Saloon Spotlight talk with Dr Rosa Salzberg, Sackler Galleries 8.45pm Venice on Film screening in Sir Hugh Casson Room, Opera performance, e Sackler Wing First oor 7.45pm Opera performance, e Sackler Wing 9.45pm Opera performance, e Sackler Wing 10pm Second oor and First oor activities close Front cover image based on View of the Dogana, Venice by Thomas Allom, 1872. Pencil, pen and ink with wash, heightened with white on cream wove paper, 118 X 75 mm. Given by Leverhulme Trust, 1936. Photo: RA. © Royal Academy of Arts, London 11.45pm Search the collection racollection.org.uk All Ground Floor activities close