Saturday, October 24th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence NB: Live only event – no recording will be made! One of the most celebrated exhibitions of this year in Italy, is “Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector” at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The exhibition celebrates Peggy Guggenheim’s years in the UK and her first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, which operated in London before WWII, between 1938 and 1939. The exhibition...

Saturday, October 10th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence When people think of Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), his paintings and architecture in Florence and Rome and, above all, his groundbreaking artist biographies in the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550, 1568) typically come to mind. This talk explores a lesser-known aspect of Vasari’s artistic and architectural production, his renovation of the prestigious medieval...

Saturday, October 3rd Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence NB: Live only event – no recording will be made! Step into Andrea Mantegna’s extraordinary Camera degli Sposi, or Camera picta, in Mantua’s Palazzo Ducale, and look up. Painted between 1465 and 1474, Mantegna’s astonishing trompe-l’œil fresco appears to dissolve the ceiling itself, opening the room to the sky as playful figures peer down over a painted marble balustrade—an illusion so daring that it...