Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 7:00 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Film: "A Room with a View" (1985)
Directed by James Ivory (not rated; 117 minutes). Based on the novel by E.M. Forster. A young English woman traveling through Italy with a stern chaperone struggles between strict, old-fashioned Victorian values and new, more liberal principles. Sponsored jointly by the Yale Film Study Center and the Yale Center for British Art.
Sunday, November 11, 2012, 1:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Exhibition Entrance
Tour: The English Prize: Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour
A tour of the exhibition led by a Center docent. Please meet at the exhibition entrance.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 5:30 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Opening Lecture: "Rediscovering the English Prize: A Conversation"
A conversation between Scott Wilcox, María Dolores Sánchez, and José María Luzón Nogué,
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 6:30 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Film: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick (rated PG; 184 minutes). An Irish rogue travels the Continent, winning the heart of a rich widow and assuming her dead husband's position as an eighteenth-century aristocrat. Sponsored jointly by the Yale Film Study Center and the Yale Center for British Art.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 5:30 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Lecture and Performance: "Music still lives in Italy" The English Musical Tourist in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Nicholas McGegan, baroque music specialist and conductor, will discuss music and the Grand Tour, and conduct vocalists from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
Saturday, November 17, 2012, 2:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Film: "Summertime" (1955)
Directed by David Lean (not rated; 100 minutes). While vacationing in Venice, an unmarried American woman's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome but married Italian man.
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 11:00 am
Yale Center for British Art, Entrance Court
Tour: The English Prize: Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour
A tour of the exhibition led by a Center docent. Please meet at the exhibition entrance.
Sunday, November 25, 2012, 1:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Exhibition Entrance
Tour: The English Prize: Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour
A tour of the exhibition led by a Center docent. Please meet at the exhibition entrance.
Thursday, October 18, 2012, 11:00 am
Yale Center for British Art, Exhibiton Entrance
Tour: The English Prize: Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour
A tour of the exhibition led by a Center docent. Please meet at the exhibition entrance.
Thursday, December 6, 2012, 5:30 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Library Court
Chamber Music Performance: Haydn String Quartets
A performance of the Haydn String Quartets, Opus 1, nos. 1–4.
Sunday, October 21, 2012, 1:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Exhibition Entrance
Tour: The English Prize: Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour
A tour of the exhibition led by a Center docent. Please meet at the exhibition entrance.
Saturday, December 8, 2012, 2:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Film: "Roman Holiday" (1953)
Directed by William Wyler (not rated; 118 minutes). A modern-day princess resists fulfilling her royal obligations and decides to explore Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman seeking an exclusive story. He feigns ignorance of her true identity but his plan fails as they fall in love.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 6:30 pm
Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY
Yale Club of New York Lecture
Scott Wilcox, Chief Curator of Art Collections and Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art This talk presents the detective story behind the exhibition of a time capsule from the eighteenth century. Organized in association with the Yale Club of New York, the lecture will take place at the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, and is open to Yale Club of New York members. For information please contact the Yale Club of New York (events@yaleclubnyc.org | +1 212 716 2133).
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 5:30 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Lecture: "The English Prize: The Capture of the 'Westmorland,' an Episode of the Grand Tour"
Scott Wilcox, Chief Curator of Art Collections and Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings
Saturday, October 27, 2012, 2:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Film: "That Hamilton Woman" (1941)
Directed by Alexander Korda (not rated; 125 minutes). Set against the back-drop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century, "That Hamilton Woman" is a gripping account of the scandalous affair between the British Royal Navy officer Lord Horatio Nelson and the renowned beauty Emma, Lady Hamilton, the wife of the British ambassador, Sir William Hamilton.
Saturday, January 12, 2013, 1:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, 3rd Floor Gallery
Tour: "The English Prize: The Capture of the 'Westmorland,' an Episode of the Grand Tour"
Saturday, November 10, 2012, 2:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Film: "Death in Venice" (1971)
Directed by Luchino Visconti (rated PG; 131 minutes). Abroad on a rest holiday, composer Gustav von Aschenbach is reserved and civilized to the rest of the world, but the sight of someone who inspires him to give way to a secret passion foreshadows his doom.
Sunday, January 13, 2013, 1:00 pm
Yale Center for British Art, 3rd Floor Gallery
Tour: The English Prize: The Capture of the “Westmorland,” an Episode of the Grand Tour