Poets, Painters and Private Lives in Venice: Artists
in 19th Century Venice
Lecturer: Douglas Skeggs
For centuries Venice had been an inspiration to artists and
writers, but finally, as it slipped away into obscurity, it’s rotting
remains attracted artists, poets and writers from all over the world.
This lecture is a purely personal tour of 19th century
Venice
in search of these painters, poets and authors and the strange and often
bizarre lives they led, in the
city, the customs and rituals they found when they arrived, and the rich
and varied
succession of images they created that ultimately transformed the hard
city of the
Venetian
Republic into the romantic
legend it is today.
