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 (link below), 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.

12:00 pm
Welcome and Introduction
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
12:25 pm
Joseph Kopta (PiV ‘07), Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Pratt in Venice
Bessarion's Byzantine Books and a Venetian Paradigm

12:50 pm
Cynthia Brenwall (PiV ‘07), New York City Municipal Archives
The Gilded City: Gold, Venice and the Art Market: 1233–1500

1:15 pm
Victoria Boardman (PiV ‘07), artist
A New Venetian Herbal: Depictions of Medicinal Plants in Carpaccio's Cycle of Paintings for the Scuola Sant'Orsola

1:40 pm
Jesse Sullivan (PiV ‘19), Temple University
Investigating Alterations: The Morosini Altarpiece in San Francesco della Vigna

2:05—2:35 pm: INTERMISSION
Screening of new Pratt in Venice video series

SESSION TWO
2:35 pm
Safiye Şentürk (PiV ‘17)
Formation of an Indigenous Ottoman Decorative Vocabulary in Response to Silk Exchange with the Venetian Republic: 1453–1571 CE

3:00 pm
Sergio Rossetti Morosini (PiV ‘92–’94), artist
Young Titian's Five-century Secret

3:25 pm
Diana Bowers-Smith (PiV ‘13), Brooklyn Public Library
The Physical Text is History: Erhard Ratdolt's Editions of Werner Rolewinck's Fasciculus Temporum

3:50 pm
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

4:15 pm
Virtual Toast & Closing Remarks
Diana Gisolfi

The symposium was free and open to the public. The lectures were recorded, and are currently being processed and will be uploaded to Pratt in Venice’s YouTube channel in due time.