UW Department of Classics in the College of Arts & Sciences

Past Events

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue

"Ghiberti and Gelato - The Gates of Paradise and Roman Art from the Louvre"

The Italian Studies Advisory Board is hosting private docent-led tours of two Seattle Art Museum exhibitions focusing on Italy. Participants may enjoy complementary gelato at Gelatiamo (1400 3rd Ave.) following the tour.

12:00pm - First group tours the exhibitions
1:30pm - Second group tours the exhibitions

Price is $40 per person with proceeds benefiting the UW's Italian Studies program ($20 for children).

Sunday, February 17 @ 2:00pm
UW Campus, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room

The Gates of Paradise: "Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece," a lecture by Seattle Art Museum's Chiyo Ishikawa

Ms. Ishikawa is SAM's Susan brotman Deputy Director of Art and Curator of European Art and Sculpture. On February 17th, she will give Friends of Italian Studies an expert's introduction to the exhibition.

After a 25-year restoration project, three original panels depicting stories of Adam and Eve, Jacob and Esau, and Saul and David, as well as two prophets and two idealized heads from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, will be on view at the Seattle Art Museum from January 26 through April 6, 2008.

$10 suggested donation to support the UW Italian Studies Program


Sunday, Novermber 11, 2007
Elysian Fields Restaurant
542 First Avenue South, Seattle

Tempo di Vendemmia
an evening of Italian cuisine paired with eight Leonardo LoCascio wine selections
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(25% of proceeds will be donated to Italian Studies!)
Event flyer in pdf format


6pm Cocktails
7pm Dinner, program, and live auction
Noted TV chef and author Nick Stellino is the evening's guest MC.

Enjoy dinner prepared by some of Seattle's finest chefs, including:
Pietro Borghesi - La Spiga
Maria Coassin - Gelatiamo
Jonathan Knowles - Elysian Fields
Don Curtiss - Volterra
Luciano Bardinelli - Luciano's

Tickets are $250 per person. Proceeds will fund scholarships in Italian Studies at the University of Washington.

Event sponsored by:
Ferrari/Maserati of Seattle

Wines provided by:
Winebow and Noble Wines

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Edoardo Lebano, Ph.D. - "Garibaldi and Lincoln: A Missed Opportunity"

This talk will deal with a little, if not unknown, page in Italian-American history. It concerns the offer of a command of an American army made by President Abraham Lincoln to Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1861.

$10 suggested donation to support the UW Italian Studies Program

Sunday, February 11, 2007
2:00pm
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall 225
UW, Seattle

Michele Genthon, Ph.D. - "Vivaldi, Venice, and Vice"

How the decadence of 18th Century Venice influenced the life and music of Antonio Vivaldi: composer, priest, opera impresario, and teacher of orphaned girls.The Cascade String Quartet will perform Vivaldi, and a wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture.

$10 suggested donation to support the UW Italian Studies Program

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