Saturday, June 6th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence Leon Battista Alberti, the prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant, was the author of De pictura ( “On Painting” ), a treatise composed first in Latin in 1435, then published in 1450. It is one of his three treatises on art; the other two are De statua and De re aedificatoria – the three would form the Renaissance concept for the fine arts: painting, sculpture, and...

Saturday, April 25th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence A very specila session of the Spring Season of Paola’s Studiolo will be dedicated to Titian’s 1535 masterpiece, the Venus of Urbino, a painting whose spell still holds firm in the present day. My guest will be professor Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, who will investigate the myths and stories surrounding this timeless painting, from the time of its creation to the later critiques by such writers as Mark Twain...

Saturday, April 11th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence Professor Brown tells a true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile, and repatriation in her 2021 book, The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire . It chronicles the 16 th century marriage of Giulia Bembo and Girolamo Della Torre and reveals the complexities of the Venetian Empire, family life, and power struggles. In her Studiolo talk, Professor...