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| The Grand Tour: British Travellers in Italy The British love of Italy reached its zenith in the last three
decades of the eighteenth century, when Florence, Venice, Rome and
Naples were full of aristocratic grand tourists, connoisseurs and
collectors, artists and dealers. |
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| Tuesday 26 February 2008 | ||||
| 10.30 am | ||||
| The Evolution
of the Grand Tour Professor Edward Chaney, Southampton Solent University |
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| 12.00 noon | ||||
| “Florence
is the loveliest city I ever saw”: The British in Eighteenth
Century Florence Hugh Belsey |
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| 1.00 pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2.00 pm | ||||
| Lecture to be confirmed | ||||
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| Tuesday 4 March 2008 | ||||
| 10.30 am | ||||
| Satire and
Fiction: The Grand Tour in English Literature John Mullan, Professor of English, University College London |
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| 12.00 noon | ||||
| Patronage,
Politics and an Ill-defined Profession: How James “Athenian”
Stuart Became an Architect Dr Kerry Bristol, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds |
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| 1.00 pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2.00 pm | ||||
| Antiquity
and Fantasy: Piranesi as a Restorer John Wilton-Ely, Professor Emeritus, University of Hull |
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| Tuesday 11 March 2008 | ||||
| 10.30 am | ||||
| Was Thomas
Jenkins a Connoisseur? Dr. Clare Hornsby, British School at Rome |
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| 12.00 noon | ||||
| “He
is like a matador”; Confrontation and Co-operation in the International
Community of Artists in Rome Tim Wilcox |
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| 1.00 pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2.00 pm | ||||
| “Art
claims Liberty” – Winckelmann and the Greek Ideal William Vaughan, Professor Emeritus, Birkbeck College |
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| Tuesday 18 March 2008 | ||||
| 10.30 am | ||||
| Views of
Vesuvius: Sir William Hamilton and the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples and
the Two Sicilies Dr. Kerry Bristol, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds |
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| 12.00 noon | ||||
| Thomas Hope
and the Ottoman Grand Tour Dr. Philip Mansel, Editor of The Court Historian, Journal of the Society for Court Studies |
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| 1.00 pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2.00 pm | ||||
| Cosmopolitanism
and Xenophobia: The Grand Tour Reconsidered Professor Jeremy Black, University of Exeter |
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| The cost of the full
course is ££236. The cost of the morning lectures only
(lunch not included) is £136. The lectures will take place
at The Medical Society of London, To apply, please contact us. |
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| Special Event | ||||
| Monday 10 March 2008 | ||||
| 11.15 am | ||||
| Prized Acquisitions:
Nobility and the Nouveaux Riches in Batoni’s Studio Peter Björn Kerber, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Co-curator of the Pompeo Batoni exhibition |
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| 12.45 pm | ||||
| Visit to the exhibition “Pompeo Batoni 1708-1787” at the National Gallery | ||||
The cost for this
event is £40. The lectures will take place at the Lecture
theatre, National Portrait Gallery, London, WC2 |
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