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National Gallery of Art - PROGRAM AND EVENTS

Public Symposium
Sights and Sounds of Eighteenth-Century Venice

April 2, 2011
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
East Building Auditorium
Held in conjunction with the exhibition
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals

Introduction
David Alan Brown, curator of Italian paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Washington coordinating curator of the exhibition
11:00–11:15

Exhibiting Canaletto in London and Washington
Dawson Carr, curator of Italian and Spanish painting 1600–1800, National Gallery, London, and London coordinating curator of the exhibition
11:15–noon

Sea Level Changes and Pollution in Venice Based on Veronese's and Canaletto's Paintings
Emanuela Pagan, National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
noon–12:45

Break
12:45–2:00

Carlevarijs and Canaletto: Painters of Ceremonies
Oliver Tostmann, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art
2:00–2:45

Public Life and Festivals in Eighteenth-Century Venice
William Barcham, professor emeritus, department of the history of art, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York
2:45–3:30

Break
3:30–3:45

Carlo Goldoni, Baldassarre Galuppi, and the New Venetian Opera Buffa
Massimo Ossi, associate professor of music, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
3:45–4:30

Panel Discussion
Panel discussion led by Charles Beddington, guest curator of the Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals exhibition and author of the exhibition catalogue. Other panelists include David Alan Brown; Dawson Carr; Frederick Ilchman, Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Joseph J. Rishel, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art.
4:30–5:00

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