Canaletto. Festivals of the Doge: The Bucintoro Leaving S. Nicolo di Lido, c. 1763.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Samuel H. Kress Collection.
Morning Session
History and Culture
10:30 Introduction
Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon senior
curator, National Gallery of Art
Myth and Reality in
Eighteenth-Century Venice
Brendan Dooley, assistant professor in history
and social studies, Harvard University
Celebrations of Power: The
Performing Arts in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Eleanor Selfridge-Field,
senior research associate, Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities
12:30 Intermission
Afternoon Session
The Visual Arts
2:00 Venetian Views and Views of Venice
Edgar Peters
Bowron, senior curator of painting, National Gallery of Art
Between
Heaven and Earth: Mary and the Saints in the Eighteenth Century
William
Barcham, professor of art history, Fashion Institute of Technology
Secular Painting: The Search for Style
Mitchell Merling, visiting
associate curator of European art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
No reservations are required. Limited seating is on a first come, first-served basis.
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition
The Glory of Venice: Art
in the Eighteenth Century
The exhibition was organized by
the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
In Washington, the exhibition is made possible by generous support from Mobil Corporation.
The exhibition is supported by the National Gallery's Fund for the International
Exchange of Art and an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and
Humanities.