Pratt in Venice, in celebration of 35 years of the Program, held a Research Symposium on Friday, November 6, 2020, from noon–4:45 pm EST. The Symposium took place virtually via Zoom, and was free and open to the public. Considering all aspects of Venetian visual culture from the Middle Ages to the present, papers and discussion were held by Pratt in Venice alumni whose research began as participants in the program.
Pratt in Venice: 2020 Research Symposium | Opening Remarks
Diana Gisolfi, Director, Pratt in Venice, Professor of Art History; Donna Heiland, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Pratt Institute; Jane South, Chair of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute; Maria José Suares, Director of Study Abroad and International Partnerships, Pratt Institute
SESSION ONE
Joseph Kopta (PiV '07), Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Pratt in Venice
”Bessarion's Byzantine Books and a Venetian Paradigm”
Cynthia Brenwall (PiV '07), New York City Municipal Archives
”The Gilded City: Gold, Venice and the Art Market: 1233–1500”
Victoria Boardman (PiV '07), artist
”A New Venetian Herbal: Depictions of Medicinal Plants in Carpaccio's Cycle of Paintings for the Scuola Sant'Orsola”
Jesse Sullivan (PiV '19), Temple University
”Investigating Alterations: The Morosini Altarpiece in San Francesco della Vigna”
INTERMISSION
"From Venice to Gowanus: Beginning and End"
Michael Brennan
Produced by Christian Harding
Pratt in Venice is pleased to launch a new series of videos that share the experience of the Pratt in Venice program. In the series debut, Professor of Painting Michael Brennan muses on missing Venice this summer, how the history of Venetian painting has informed his teaching and practice, and reflects on how he has kept Venice alive at home in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
"The Church of San Sebastiano, Venice"
Diana Gisolfi
Produced by Christian Harding
In Pratt in Venice's second installment of its new video series, Director and Professor of Art History Diana Gisolfi introduces the work of artist Paolo Veronese and his decade-long project at San Sebastiano, as well as recent conservation efforts there.
SESSION TWO
Safiye Şentürk (PiV '17)
”Formation of an Indigenous Ottoman Decorative Vocabulary in Response to Silk Exchange with the Venetian Republic: 1453–1571 CE”
Sergio Rossetti Morosini (PiV '92–'94), artist
”Young Titian's Five-century Secret”
Diana Bowers-Smith (PiV '13), Brooklyn Public Library
”The Physical Text is History: Erhard Ratdolt's Editions of Werner Rolewinck's Fasciculus Temporum”
Marietta Burdick (PiV '17), Resnicow and Associates
”Love, Law, and Lux: The Theological Basis for Tintoretto's Paintings in the Choir of the Madonna dell’Orto”
Pratt in Venice: 2020 Research Symposium | Closing Remarks with additional Q&A
