Expert Jane Angelini to deliver lecture on Venice to the Arts Society of Bishop’s Stortford at South Mill Arts
La Serenissima, the city of Venice, is the subject of the Arts Society of Bishop’s Stortford’s May lecture.
Speaker Jane Angelini has an academic background in Byzantine and Early Russian art and architecture.
Her career includes stints as an art journalist, a translator of 19th-century Russian literature for Penguin Books and Oxford University Press, and a lecturer in art history. She and her husband now run an art gallery in St James, Piccadilly.
She has been a lecturer for the Arts Society and other arts organisations for more than 30 years, and her talk on Tuesday May 13 is titled “Venice and the Contribution of Venetian Women”.
Each month, the Arts Society of Bishop’s Stortford member Mick Fitch reviews the last lecture and looks forward to the next subject for Indie readers.
He said: “Jane says Venice is, quite simply, the most beautiful city in the world. A thousand years of independence, sailing and trading, many centuries of a flourishing commercial empire and a unique position have resulted in the harmonious growth of a beautiful entity.
“Her lecture on La Serenissima, ‘the most serene’ city, will show that it holds an appeal which goes far beyond the sum of its many palaces, churches and monuments.
“Jane’s lecture follows the wonderful April lecture by British Museum curator Dr Irving Finkel on the art of Mesopotamia long before the Graeco-Roman world – that is, on art before the word ‘art’ existed.
“Dr Finkel used photos of Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian sculptures, paintings and glyptic [carving or engraving] art from the British Museum collections to illustrate his superb lecture.”
The Arts Society Bishop’s Stortford, founded in 1976, meets monthly at South Mill Arts on the second Tuesday of the month, with coffee from 10am. The lecture starts at 10.40am. Visitors are welcome to attend for a suggested £7 donation. To find out more see info@tasbs.org.uk.
