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The LdM Summer Workshops represent an exciting experience for people of all ages and
all nationalities who wish to deepen their personal cultural experience and creative
skills. Each workshop is a month-long exploration, balancing studio and classroom
instruction on the school premises in Florence with field work in one or more
inspiring Italian locations. For Summer 2010, LdM offers you the opportunity to
explore the beautiful locales of Florence, Chianti, and Tuscania.
Discover your inner Dante Alighieri by expanding your writing skills with our Florence and Tuscania Travel Writing and Literature Workshop . This
course provides an opportunity for participants to focus first-hand on the art and
craft of travel writing. In Florence and Tuscania, students will explore places of
historic, artistic, and cultural interest, which will inspire their reading and
writing skills.
If you prefer painting, the beauty of Chianti opens up before you with rolling
hills, medieval villas, and breathtaking vineyard vistas, waiting to be captured on
canvas in our Florence and Chianti Watercolor Workshop. The
Tuscany region is also home to 15th and 16th century paintings in need of
restoration, which is the perfect opportunity for you to gain hands-on experience
with our Florence and Chianti Restoration Workshop.
At LdM Tuscania, two special workshops give you the possibility to discover the
ancient Etruscans. The Tuscania Archaeology
Field School allows students to learn and work in an excavation environment.
Or, take advantage of the varied architectural, historical and natural painting
opportunities available near Lake Bolseno, Orvieto and Rome in our Tuscania Oil Painting Workshop .
Florence and Tuscania
Travel Writing
and Literature Workshop Throughout history, Italy has inspired writers to wax
lyrical in ways that few other countries have done. Countless English-language
novels, stories and poems have created a Œbel paese¹ of words around the Italian
experience. This workshop allows participants to live in and write about the vibrant
and cosmopolitan world of Florence, and to contrast their experiences there with
those of Tuscania, a hauntingly beautiful hill-top town poised between Lake Bolsena
and the Mediterranean, surrounded by archaeological sites that bear witness to
Italy¹s most ancient civilizations.
This course provides an opportunity for participants to focus first-hand on the art
and craft of travel writing, with particular emphasis on Italy, but also with
excursions into other worlds - real or imaginary. Through reading, writing, and
visits in and around Florence and Tuscania, students will explore places of
historic, artistic, cultural and personal interest. They will learn "by example"
from a selection of great travel literature from the world in general, and from
Italy in particular. And they will learn "by doing", via a series of guided
exercises and assignments that explore the distinctive qualities of travel writing
its combination of history, culture, information, rumination, musings and memory
and the ways in which this particular art can lead to a deeper understanding of
their own experiences and cultural identity.
Dates for Summer 2010:
5/27-6/26
Application Deadline: April 15
Please click here to download the
brochure for the LdM Workshops for 2010 and read more about LdM's Florence and
Tuscania Travel Writing and Literature Workshop.
To apply, please
download and complete the Study Abroad Application.
Florence and Chianti
Watercolor
Workshop This special summer course takes place both in Florence and in the
Chianti region. The workshop focuses on observation with emphasis on the creative
interpretation of the figure, architecture, object compositions, nature and open air
painting. Form, value, line and proportions will be studied as means of determining
space, shape, volume and composition. The lessons include the study of watercolor
and mixed media techniques, the study of color theory (tone, light, value as well as
interaction of color) and the analysis of the structure of a painting in its whole,
in detail, and in the relationship between details. All work is based on observation
and not on concept.
Three of the four course weeks will be held in
Florence, where the class will work in the studio at the school premises, and one
week (the second of the course) will be held in the Chianti region near the medieval
villages of Radda and Gaiole in Chianti. The participants will undertake daily field
trips in the magnificent scenery of the Sienese Chianti, hiking along the trails of
one of the most famous and spectacular areas in the world. During this week,
participants will be housed in a traditional and picturesque "agriturismo.² They
will practice their painting skills through field work and theoretical lectures. The
culture and history of the Chianti region will be analyzed for a better
understanding of the human and architectural environment.
During the
Florence class, the class will work with models, still life and other set-ups in the
studio, and will occasionally work outdoors in ancient gardens, churches, museums
and other places of historical importance in the city.
Dates for
Summer 2010: 7/1-7/31
Application Deadline: May 15
Please click here to
download the brochure for the LdM Workshops for 2010 and read more about LdM's
Florence and Chianti Watercolor Workshop.
To apply, please
download and complete the Study Abroad Application.
Florence and Chianti
Restoration
Workshop This special summer course can be attended at either introductory or
intermediate level and is held partly in Florence and partly in the Chianti.
Participants gain knowledge and practical skills concerning historical painting and
restoration techniques. During the two weeks in Florence participants learn original
fresco techniques, from the mixing of fresco mortar (intonaco), its application on
support, to the use of pigments. Each participant makes a sinopia (preliminary
underdrawing for fresco) and completes a small fresco on a terracotta support.
Restoration techniques are pursued, in part through the detachment of the
participant's own fresco from its support, a wall painting conservation method.
Participants work with original works of art from the 16th to17th centuries as they
learn how to use the principal modern painting restoration techniques to bring
period paintings back to their original states. The course also briefly surveys the
historical techniques used for making oil and tempera paintings, and the group
learns to recognize the century in which paintings were created. Museum visits help
to explain techniques used in class.
During the field workshop weeks participants will work in the town of San Gusmè in
the Chianti region near the medieval villages of Radda and Gaiole in Chianti. During
this period, participants will be housed in a traditional and picturesque
"agriturismo.²
The class will ripristinate the original polychromatic surfaces of an important
16th-century altar in the principal church. They will remove the pigments of the
preceding restoration of about a century ago, with scalpels, eliminating the
chromatic distortion of this overpainting. They will then proceed to reconstruct the
work with colored stucco and tempera, with a final wax stratum to complete the
beautiful original effect.
Dates for 2010: 5/27-6/26 or 7/1-7/31
Application Deadlines: April 15 and May 15, respectively
Please click here to
download the brochure for the LdM Workshops for 2010 and read more about LdM's
Florence and Chianti Restoration Workshop.
To apply, please
download and complete the Study Abroad Application.
Tuscania
Oil Painting Workshop: Painting
Under the Etruscan Sky This special summer workshop takes place in beautiful
Central Italy and the participants will have the unique opportunity to sketch, draw
and paint in an area that includes what was once the land of the ancient and
intriguing Etruscan civilization.
The course will focus on observation
of the landscape as well as on the architectural and historical richness offered by
these locations. A great deal of attention will be given to the creative
interpretation of nature, architectural details and historical sites. Color theory
and line, form and proportions will be studied, all based on observation. Particular
emphasis will be given to the interplay of light and color as key elements in a
painting¹s mood.
The participants will be based at the LdM School in
Tuscania and, when not on site, classes will be held here. Tuscania is an ancient
Etruscan hill town close to the seaside, and nearby ancient towns of Tarquinia,
Orvieto, Civita di Bagnoregio as well as the Bolsena Lake and the city of Rome are
the ideal field locations for this exciting experience.
Dates for
Summer 2010: 5/27-6/26
Application Deadline: April 15
Please click here
to download the brochure for the LdM Tuscania Summer Offerings for 2010 and read
more about LdM's Tuscania Oil Painting Workshop.
To apply, please download
and complete the Study
Abroad Application.
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