CICERONI Travel
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Lecture SeriesWriting in 1568 Giorgio Vasari described Donatello in the following terms: ‘he was not only a very rare sculptor and a marvellous statuary, but also a practised worker in stucco, an able master of perspective, and greatly esteemed as an architect…...
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Lecture SeriesJohannes (Jan) Vermeer remains the most enigmatic of Dutch ‘Golden Age’ painters. Born in 1632 and dead by 1675, a native of Delft where he spent his entire life, we know very little about him, his training and the influences which shaped his art....
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Lecture SeriesThe princely House of Colonna has occupied a position at the fulcrum of Rome’s history from their recorded origins in the eleventh century to the present day. No other aristocratic family has enjoyed such a place at the heart of the religious, pol...
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Lecture SeriesOn the 23rd November 1922, Howard Carter broke through the blocked doorway and entered the tomb of the young Pharaoh, Tutankhamun who had been buried in c.1,327 BC, over 4,000 years ago. It was the first intact royal Egyptian tomb ever found by a...
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Lecture SeriesVenice rose from the water of a lagoon in the upper Adriatic. From the fifth century the Adriatic Veneti sought refuge on its scattered islands from the Visigoth, Hun and Longobard invasions that overran the north-eastern Italian peninsula as the ...
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Lecture SeriesWe regret that we have had to change the dates from those originally published. Lecture 1 will now take place on Tue 12 Apr & Lecture 2 on Wed 20 Apr. We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Lecture SeriesThe just over a hundred years between the accession of Philip II as King of Spain in 1556 and the death of his grandson, Philip IV, in 1665 saw momentous changes within the Spanish Habsburg Empire. Whilst remaining geographically almost intact, th...
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Lecture SeriesAs the British Museum launches its great ground-breaking World of Stonehenge exhibition this spring (17 February - 17 July), we enter the remarkable and innovative Neolithic Age of 5,000 years ago. This ‘New Stone Age’ was a time of the e...
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Lecture SeriesVienna in the 1780s was an irresistible draw to the 25-year-old Mozart. Centre of the Habsburg Empire, with an Emperor who was a keen supporter of the arts, Vienna had a population of 200,000, and limitless opportunities for public concerts and pr...
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Lecture SeriesThe Habsburgs were Europe's most influential ruling dynasty of the early modern era. Their origins in Alpine obscurity gave no suggestion of the vast territories they would eventually control, governed from their European bases in Madrid, Vienna, ...
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Lecture SeriesBorn in Florence to American parents, John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) was celebrated as a cosmopolitan expatriate painter of international renown. His lucrative career inspired comparisons to Velazquez, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Manet whilst his ex...
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Lecture SeriesStraddling the alpine passes between France and Italy, the House of Savoy rose from 11th century feudal counts to Imperial dukes and princes, eventually becoming kings of Sardinia and finally of Italy, traversing a thousand years of European hist...
