Please join us in Venice (or online) for the upcoming Twelfth Annual IAS/Lecture, which will be held on Friday, June 30, at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
We are looking forward to the lecture by this year’s speaker, Jodi Cranston, Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University and author of Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice (Penn State University Press 2019). Cranston’s lecture, “The Worn Animal: Furs and Perfume in Early Modern Venetian Art” (delivered in English), is related to research undertaken for a forthcoming book entitled Animal Sightings: Art, Animals, and Court Culture, 1400 – 1550, which is scheduled to be published by Penn State University Press in 2025.
If you will be in Venice, please join us before the event for a coffee welcome at 16.00, followed by the lecture and a Q&A from 17.00 to 18.30 in the historic Sala Barbantini, with introductions in person from Luca Massimo Barbero (Director of the Institute of Art History, Fondazione Cini) and myself remotely.
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural livestream of the Lecture, the IAS is delighted be able to make the Lecture accessible in a hybrid
format for the second year in a row. Stay tuned for instructions about remote access.
The IAS will offer an aperitivo and cocktail hour after the event, from 18.30 to 20.00, to all attendees in the beautiful cloisters of the Cini. All are welcome. My sincere thanks go to the Kress Foundation and to the Fondazione Cini for their support.
Thanks to the support of the Kress, the IAS congratulates Jensina Endresen (University of Colorado, Denver), this year’s winner of the IAS/Kress Lecture ESC Travel Grant, which supports travel for an emerging scholar to attend the IAS/Kress Lecture in Italy.
This is a free event supported by the Italian Art Society and generous support from the Kress Foudnation.

12th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture
Where: In-person at the Fondazione Cini in Venice, Italy; with live-streaming for remote attendees by registration (details to follow)
When: Friday 30 June 2023
* Coffee break at 16.00, preceding the event
* Lecture and q&a 17.00–18.30
* Introductions by Luca Massimo Barbero (Director of the Institute of Art History, Fondazione Cini) and Tenley Bick (IAS President)
* Aperitivo and cocktails in the cloisters from 18.30–20.00
What: Dr. Jodi Cranston, Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University “The Worn Animal: Furs and Perfume in Early Modern Venetian Art” (delivered in English)