THE DAPHNE MAYO LECTURE 2012
Good Citizenship: The World
of the Venetian cittadino
How were the ‘middle classes’ in Venice
distinguished by rank, wealth, and taste?
The cittadini of Venice are best-known to art
historians through their patronage of the great
citizens’ guilds or Scuole Grandi. But they also
commissioned works of art and architecture in their
own right. Often highly educated and prosperous,
they proved to be ambitious clients for artists of the
Venetian Renaissance. This lecture challenges the
common perception that their tastes in art were
less refined than those of the ruling nobility.
Deborah Howard is Professor of Architectural
History in the Faculty of Architecture
and History of Art at the University of
Cambridge. A graduate of Cambridge and
of the Courtauld Institute of Art, she taught
at University College London, Edinburgh
University and the Courtauld Institute, before
returning to Cambridge in 1992.
She has held visiting appointments at Yale,
Harvard, Princeton, Smith College, the
National Gallery of Art in Washington DC,
and the Villa I Tatti in Florence. Her principal
research interests are the art and architecture
of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance;
and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean. In
2005 she established the Centre for Acoustic and Musical Experiments in
Renaissance Architecture (CAMERA) in the Department of History of Art,
University of Cambridge.
She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. Her most
recent books are Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture,
Music, Acoustics (Yale University Press, 2009, with Laura Moretti), and
Venice Disputed: Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture 15501600 (Yale University Press, 2011).
The University of Queensland
Art Museum and
Good Citizenship: The World of the Venetian cittadino
The School of English, Media
Studies and Art History
Deborah Howard
Professor of Architectural History, Faculty of Architecture and
History of Art, University of Cambridge
in association with
The Alumni Friends of The
University of Queensland Inc.
Wednesday 4 April 6.00 pm
ICTE Auditorium, Sir Llew Edwards Building
Free. All welcome.
invite you to attend
RSVP by Friday 30 March
Bookings essential as numbers are limited.
Email: [email protected]
(07) 3365 3046
Refreshments will be served, after the lecture, in the foyer of the
UQ Art Museum. Our current exhibitions Gonkar Gyatso: Three Realms;
Fashioning self: Artworks from the Collection; and Beijing hao! Six
Chinese photomedia artists will be open for viewing until 8.30 pm.
Daphne Mayo was for much of her life
Queensland’s best known artist and a
passionate advocate for the arts. Her work
includes the tympanum on the Brisbane
City Hall and the Women’s War Memorial
in ANZAC Square. She was a trustee of
the Queensland Art Gallery (1960-67),
established an art reference library now
at The University of Queensland, and left
her private papers to The University of
Queensland’s Fryer Library.
Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture
To honour and commemorate the life of one of Queensland’s most
prominent artists and art educators, the School of English, Media Studies
and Art History at The University of Queensland has established the annual
Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture. Each year, a major
figure will visit Brisbane to speak about the latest trends, influences, and
theories in their area of visual culture. They will give public lectures and take
master classes with postgraduate students at The University of Queensland.
Please note this public lecture will be held in the ICTE Auditorium
in the Sir Llew Edwards Building, (No 14) which is located diagonally
across from the UQ Art Museum in University Drive.
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Daphne Mayo (1895-1982)
Cover: Titian
Sacred and Profane Love 1514
Oil on canvas, 118.0 x 279.0 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome