&84 /0/5)& 3*"-50 No. 28 2009 EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTee Patricia Fortini Brown Dept. of Art & Archeology Princeton University Robert C. Davis Department of History The Ohio State University Paul Grendler Emeritus Professor of History University of Toronto Edward Muir Department of History Northwestern University EDITOR Eric Dursteler Department of History Brigham Young University Published with the support of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Evans Foundation, and the Department of History at Brigham Young University. For information, contact: News on the Rialto Provo, UT 84602 USA Tel. (801) 361-2904 Fax (801) 422-0275 [email protected] or www.newsontherialto.com LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES ARCHIVIO DI STATO, FRARI CENTRO TEDESCO DI STUDI ISTITUTO DI STUDI STORICI S. Polo 3002, tel. 041-5222281; VENEZIANI S. 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Disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences are eligibile areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater. The deadline for applications is December 15. Guidelines and application forms are available from the Foundation’s website: www.delmas.org. Delmas Commonwealth GRANTS FOR VENETIAN RESEARCH: The Trustees of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York announce that up to £0,000 will be made available in 00/010 to scholars from Great Britain and the Commonwealth for Research in Venice. The principal areas of research envisaged concern both the past (art, architecture, history, law, language, literature, music) and the present (conservation, culture, environment, politics) of Venice and the territories formerly subject to it. Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary to the Delmas Foundation’s Advisory Committee, Professor Julian Gardner, 44, Foundry House, Eagle Works, Walton Well Road, Oxford OX 6AQ UK (telephone 01865 511 499 e- mail [email protected]). Applications should reach Professor Julian Gardner by 15th May 009. ARCHIVIO DI STATO ONLINE: L’Archivio di stato di Venezia annuncia che sono on line sia il Sistema informativo dell’archivio, che descrive tutti i fondi archivistici e gli strumenti di corredo (finding aids) collegati, nonché, per circa la metà di essi, la rispettiva articolazione in serie, sottoserie e - da poco iniziata, e per ora circoscritta a pochi fondi - anche le unità. I soggetti produttori (le istituzioni o le persone o famiglie che hanno prodotto gli archivi) sono presenti, ma ancora in corso di approfondimento. E’ on line anche il Progetto Divenire, che mette a disposizione numerose serie riprodotte come immagine digitale (Registri del Maggior Consiglio Senato e Consiglio di Dieci (fino all’anno 1500), nonché numerosi disegni, mappe e pergamene con regesti. SENATO. DELIBERAZIONI MISTE: The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti is publishing the registers of the Venetian Senate for the period up to the war of Chioggia (181), in a total of twenty volumes. This will make available documentary material of ex- traordinary importance for historic research. The Consiglio dei Rogati o dei Pregadi (Consilium Rogatorum), later the Senate, was possibly set up in 1229-1230 as an organ of support to the Great Council. Its function soon moved from that of preliminary inquiry and advice on matters of trade and navigation to decision-making, eventually in every aspect of economic financial and administrative matters and of internal and external policy. Over the years the Consiglio dei Rogati became the most important of the Venetian councils, at the heart of the institutional order. The deliberations (or parti), valid as law, were recorded from the end of the thirteenth century, and have been conserved from register XV onward. The series is published under the patronage of the Senato della Repubblica Italiana and directed by: Maria Francesca Tiepolo, Dieter Girgensohn and Gherardo Ortalli. More information: www.istitutoveneto.it/senato/ or [email protected]. VOLUME 26 2007 ANNOUNCEMENTS MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW – ITALIAN LANGUAGE COURSES: CALL FOR PAPERS: The Dante Alighieri Institute of Venice announces a series Mediterranean Historical Review is a bi-annual, refereed of Italian language courses to be offered throughout 2009. journal, published by Routledge. The journal is interested in For additional information contact: info@venicedantealigh- receiving papers treating the history of the Mediterranean ieri.it, or www.venicedantealighieri.it. basin, emphasizing contacts, relations and influences within a Mediterranean context, as well as questions of a compara- tive and comparable nature. For information regarding the CESARE BARBIERI GRANT: submission of manuscripts, please visit our website: The Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture (Trin- www.tau.ac.il/humanities/cmc/mhr/mhr.html. Or contact us ity College, Connecticut) will award a research grant in at: [email protected]. modern Italian history. The amount of the grant has been increased to $7,500 and the application procedure is stream- lined. You will find all information at the the link below: http://www.cbendowment.org/grant It would be difficult to overrate the value of the lessons which might be derived from a faith- ful study of the history of this strange and mighty city: a his- tory which, in spite of the labour of countless chroniclers, remains in vague and disputable outline, - barred with brightness and shade, like the far away edge of her own ocean, where the surf and the sandbank are mingled with the sky. John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice 4 NEWS ON THE RIALTO AN NOUNCEMENTS Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in lectors, as well as large-format works originally destined for Renaissance Venice: churches and palaces. A group of impressive portraits will illustrate new varieties in portraiture and how the Venetian The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has announced an exhibi- brushstroke could make the sitter palpably present. Titian, tion on the “Big Three” of Venetian sixteenth-century paint- Tintoretto, and Veronese together created a body of work ing for the spring and summer of 009. This exhibition will that defined a “Venetian style” through loose technique, rich be on view in Boston from March 15 to July 19, 009 and coloring, and often sensual subject matter. at the Musée du Louvre, Paris from September 14, 2009 to January 5, 010. The exhibition anticipates remarkable loans from the most important European and American museums including the Although forty years separate the birth of Titian from that Gallerie dell’Accademia, the Louvre, the Prado, the Uffizi, of Paolo Veronese, the careers of Titian, Tintoretto and the Museo di Capodimonte, Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Mu- Veronese overlapped for almost four decades of painting seum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the National Gallery in Venice. This exhibition will explore the innovations and of Art in Washington. Several paintings will come from the achievements of Venetian Renaissance painting by examin- specific sites for which they were commissioned – churches ing the rivalries and mutual influences among these three in Venice – and others have never been seen in the United artists.