THE DAPHNE MAYO LECTURE 2012 Deborah Howard is Professor of Architectural Good Citizenship: The World History in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge. A graduate of Cambridge and of the Venetian cittadino of the Courtauld Institute of Art, she taught at University College London, Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute, before How were the ‘middle classes’ in Venice returning to Cambridge in 1992. distinguished by rank, wealth, and taste? She has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Smith College, the The cittadini of Venice are best-known to art National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the Villa I Tatti in Florence. Her principal historians through their patronage of the great research interests are the art and architecture citizens’ guilds or Scuole Grandi. But they also of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean. In commissioned works of art and architecture in their 2005 she established the Centre for Acoustic and Musical Experiments in own right. Often highly educated and prosperous, Renaissance Architecture (CAMERA) in the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge. they proved to be ambitious clients for artists of the She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. Her most Venetian Renaissance. This lecture challenges the recent books are Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (Yale University Press, 2009, with Laura Moretti), and common perception that their tastes in art were Venice Disputed: Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture 1550- less refined than those of the ruling nobility. 1600 (Yale University Press, 2011). The University of Queensland Good Citizenship: The World of the Venetian cittadino Art Museum and The School of English, Media Deborah Howard Studies and Art History Professor of Architectural History, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, University of Cambridge in association with The Alumni Friends of The Wednesday 4 April 6.00 pm University of Queensland Inc. ICTE Auditorium, Sir Llew Edwards Building invite you to attend Free. All welcome. RSVP by Friday 30 March Bookings essential as numbers are limited. Email: [email protected] (07) 3365 3046 Refreshments will be served, after the lecture, in the foyer of the UQ Art Museum. Our current exhibitions Gonkar Gyatso: Three Realms; Fashioning self: Artworks from the Collection; and Beijing hao! Six Chinese photomedia artists will be open for viewing until 8.30 pm. Cover: Titian Sacred and Profane Love 1514 Oil on canvas, 118.0 x 279.0 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome Daphne Mayo (1895-1982) Please note this public lecture will be held in the ICTE Auditorium Daphne Mayo was for much of her life in the Sir Llew Edwards Building, (No 14) which is located diagonally Queensland’s best known artist and a across from the UQ Art Museum in University Drive. passionate advocate for the arts. Her work For map, see www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&id=280&z=1 includes the tympanum on the Brisbane City Hall and the Women’s War Memorial in ANZAC Square. She was a trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery (1960-67), established an art reference library now at The University of Queensland, and left her private papers to The University of The University of Queensland Queensland’s Fryer Library. Art Museum University Drive, St Lucia Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au To honour and commemorate the life of one of Queensland’s most Open daily 10.00 am – 4.00 pm prominent artists and art educators, the School of English, Media Studies Free parking on weekends and Art History at The University of Queensland has established the annual Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture. Each year, a major figure will visit Brisbane to speak about the latest trends, influences, and theories in their area of visual culture. They will give public lectures and take master classes with postgraduate students at The University of Queensland. Number 00025B 62059 PW 2k MAR12 CRICOS Provider.