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Summer Workshops
The LdM Summer Workshops represents an exciting experience for people of all ages and all nationalities who wish to deepen their personal cultural experience and creative skills. They are structured on a monthly basis. Three of the four monthly course weeks consist of instruction at the school premises in Florence, where students attend regular scheduled classes in the school studios/classrooms and around the city (if pertinent). The other week will be spent on the scheduled location, where students will be involved full-time in educational activities, but also have time to appreciate the opportunities offered by each location.
For Summer 2008, LdM offers you the opportunity of discovering for yourself Michelangelo’s sculpting inspiration born from the marble of Carrara with our Florence and Carrara Marble Sculpture Workshop. If you prefer painting, the beauty of Calabria opens up before you with a castle, medieval town, nearby sea and breathtaking vistas waiting to be captured on the canvas in our Florence and Southern Italy Watercolor Workshop. But Calabria also holds 15th and 16th century paintings in need of restoration, the perfect chance for a hands-on experience with our Florence and Southern Italy Restoration Workshop.
Please “click here” to download the brochure for the LdM Workshops for 2008 and read more about these exciting possibilities this coming summer.
Florence and Carrara
Marble Sculpture Workshop
This unique course combines the two exceptional locations of Florence and Carrara in order to explore the world of marble sculpture. For well over two thousand years the Carrara marble mines and workshops have played a central role in the development of Italian art and architecture. The Renaissance in Florence would have been unthinkable without this resource. Michelangelo himself was inspired by Carrara's magnificent marble mountains, and chose blocks of marble here for his own works. Situated only three miles from the coast, Carrara is a site of incomparable natural beauty, combining fauna and flora with dramatic and breathtaking views.
Three of the four course weeks will be conducted in the studio in Florence where the class will be introduced to various methods of marble sculpting through both individual and group demonstrations. The instructor will provide for viewing various images of contemporary and ancient stone sculptures to aid the participants in realizing their own ideas in marble.
One of the four weeks will be held in Carrara, the world’s marble capital.
The participants will be housed in a hotel situated between the town of Carrara and the coast. Work will continue in a traditional marble workshop alongside the instructor and local artisans. Visits to the quarries, other traditional workshops, museums and other locations dedicated to marble sculpting will be organized during the stay in Carrara.
The successive weeks in Florence will be dedicated to deepening the participants’ skill in using various hand and automatic tools. Refinishing techniques will be demonstrated and applied enabling the participants to complete a sculpture of their own.
Dates for Summer 2008: May 22 - June 21.
Please “click here” to download the brochure for the LdM Workshops for 2008 and read more about LdM’s Florence and Carrara Marble Sculpture Workshop.
Florence and Southern Italy
Watercolor Workshop
This special summer course takes place both in Florence and in Southern Italy. This 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 (generally the second of the course) will be held at Rocca Imperiale, Calabria. Rocca Imperiale is an ancient town located at the base of a medieval castle of Emperor Frederic II, dominating the Gulf of Taranto on a hill 4 km from the sea. The fertile region and the strategic position attracted important Greek and medieval settlements. From the top of the castle the class will have a breathtaking view and receive inspiration for their drawing projects.
During the Calabria stay the participants will learn how to draw, sketch and paint by practicing through daily field trips in the narrow corners of the town, its ancient castle, the surrounding countryside and the seaside. During this week the participants will be housed in a local bed and breakfast. The culture and history of the region will be analyzed for a better understanding of the geographical and cultural 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.
Dates for Summer 2008: June 26 - July 26
Please “click here” to download the brochure for the LdM Workshops for 2008 and read more about LdM’s Florence and Souther Italy Watercolor Workshop: Color and Light.
Florence and Southern Italy
Restoration Workshop
This special summer course takes place both in Florence and in Southern Italy. Three weeks will be spent in Florence, in the restoration labs of the LdM school: the class will learn the ancient technique of fresco by using original techniques from the mixing of fresco mortar (intonaco), its application on support, and the use of pigments for painting fresco. Each participant will make a “sinopia” (preliminary painting for fresco), and complete a small fresco on a terracotta support using the participant's choice of subject matter. The course will also discuss the detachment of the participant's own fresco from its support. This is a method used in wall painting conservation, and will give the participant an opportunity to learn the techniques of fresco restoration using their own fresco. The course will also briefly survey the ancient techniques used for making oil and tempera paintings. The participants will learn to recognize the century in which the paintings were created. The class will be working with original paintings from the 16th – 17th century and they will learn how to use all modern painting restoration techniques to bring the antique paintings back to their original states. Scheduled museum visits will help enlighten the techniques they use in class.
One week (usually the second of the course) will take place at Rocca Imperiale, Calabria. Rocca Imperiale is an ancient town located at the base of a medieval castle of Emperor Frederic II, dominating the Gulf of Taranto and 4 km from the sea. The fertile region and the strategic position attracted important Greek and medieval settlements.
The class will work in the main church of the town, focusing on the restoration of authentic mural paintings of the 15th and 16th century and occasionally polychrome wooden sculptures. The participants will learn how to acquire confidence and practical knowledge in elaborating authentic and antique works of art, adding a more realistic approach to restoration and conservation.
As a first step, a complete study of the art work will be carried out in order to understand dates and conservation conditions. Then the class will concentrate on cleaning the art work and consolidate it with the proper materials. For the next step, the participants will learn to use different products for the restoration of the surface layers. As the last step the participants will also work on the pictorial layer and, if necessary, will do some in-painting with appropriate colors.
Dates for Summer 2008: May 22 - June 21 or June 26 - July 26
Please “click here” to download the brochure for the LdM Workshops for 2008 and read more about LdM’s Florence and Southern Italy Restoration Workshop.
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