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Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite
Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite is a lecturer
in History at Keble College Oxford,
and in History of Arts at Middlebury
College. Marie-Louise’s research focuses
particularly on sacred art and architecture in earlymodern
Venice, as well as on the arts and material
culture of the Jesuit order in Southeast Asia.
Nigel McGilchrist
Having worked in the Mediterranean
area for over thirty years, Art Historian
Nigel McGilchrist has taught for several
universities and now lectures freelance.
He has worked for the Italian Ministry of Arts on
wall painting conservation and is the author of the
20-volume series, McGilchrist’s Greek Islands.
Palazzo Grimani
Architecture in Venice
From the Renaissance to Carlo Scarpa
Monolithos Castle
Rhodes
NEW
The Mediterranean’s Scepter’d Isle
27 April 2022, Please call for prices 6 May 2022, Please call for prices
From its origins the architecture of Venice has
always had a highly distinctive character. It is
not just that the builders of the city had to adapt
their construction to a unique environment. This
tour will reveal new splendid aspects of the city’s
singular beauty.
Tour highlights
• A exclusive evening private evening visit to
the Basilica di San Marco
• A boat trip across the Grand Canal to see
Santa Maria del Giglio
• A excursion to see the Giannantonio Selva’s
Teatro della Fenice, a building destroyed by
fire twice, which reopened in 2004
• Explore the journey through the history of
Venice’s architecture from its origins to the
15th Century
Visit Ancient Rhodes - wealthy cultural centre in
Antiquity, sacred to the Sun; Mediaeval Rhodes,
one of the finest walled cities of Mediterranean
Europe and ingenious capital of the Knights of St
John; and visit the neighbouring island of Symi
with the most elegant harbour of the Aegean. A
world of sunshine, revelations, crusaders, ancient
cities, and some of Greece’s best food.
Tour highlights
• Dodecanesian Islands: Chalki and Symi
• Monolithos Castle
• Nestorideion Melathron
Symi
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To book call 01280 736 115 or visit artpursuits.com