ROME IN WINTER PORTRAIT WORKSHOP 2024
3-11 January 2024
This New Renaissance Atelier Workshop, is dedicated to the Portrait in studio with models and visiting many of the Museums and archeological sites that Rome has to offer.
Theory, practice, and Art Histtory are the ingredients for this comprehensive, holistic Portrait Drawing workshop, and Rome, with its inexhaustible amount of artworks, is the perfect place where to hold it.
The morning will be dedicated to 4 hour portrait drawing sessions with models from life, practicing a variety of drawing techniques, studying essential elements of portraiture such as structure and anatomy of the head, characteristics of the facial features and positioning on the face, practicing measuring, practicing drawing techniques associated with portrait drawing such as charcoal and chalk on toned paper, reduction technique, red and black crayons, graphite on white paper.
The afternoons will be dedicated to visiting museums where works by some of the greatest figurative artists from antiquity by Classic and Hellenistic masters or produced during the Renaissance and Baroque periods by artists such, Velasquez Bernini, Caravaggio.
During these museum visits, the students will have the opportunity to take photographs of the many artworks there exibited, and create a personal file of reference images that can be source of inspiration, and occasion for drawing practice once at home.
Why go to Rome during the Winter?
Rome in Winter is a different, very enjoyable experience: the number of tourists is much smaller, museums and sites that are usually very crowded during the Summer season, have a much smaller number of visitors during the Winter.
The number of artworks, museums and archeological sites that can be found in Rome is staggering, each museum contains works by some of the greatest masters that ever lived. In fact, the whole city of Rome can be considered a museum, making it fun to explore the city, walking from the Pantheon, one of the best preserved of all the ancient Roman buildings, where the tomb of Raphael can be found, to Piazza Navona, where one can admire the works of two masters of the Baroque period: Bernini’s Fountain of Rivers and Borromini’s church of Santa Agnese in Agone.
Or do the Caravaggio tour, visiting the three churches where some of the best and most famous Caravaggio’s paintings can be found.. All these works will give us occasion to study a great variety of facial expressions: ecstasy, rage, elation, determination, fear, happiness.
The infinite number of sculptural portraits for antiquity that can be found in the innumerable Roman museums, will give us the rare occasion to study the classical and Hellenistic parameters of beauty and harmony but also the many examples of Roman Portraiture, depicting the sitter in very realistic detail, connecting us with people that lived 2,000 years ago in Rome.
For this workshop, we also planned a special field trip to an incredible place: the Etruscan tombs of Tarquinia and Cerveteri, where frescoes depicting life scenes of these ancient inhabitants of central Italy and the remains of Etruscan dwellings.
A second field trip is dedicated to Hadrian’s Villa, the magnificent abode of the 2nd century Emperor located in Tivoli. This is probably the biggest of all the Roman villas and definitely the most impressive
Join me, from January 3 to 11, 2024 for this intensive Portrait Drawing and Art History workshop in Rome, enjoying art, food and enjoy the company of other art enthusiasts.
PROGRAM
- Hotel Check-in
- Welcome Drink
- Workshop's Participants Meeting
- Dinner
- 9:00-1:30: Portrait Drawing in studio with male model
- 1:30-2:30: Lunch
- 2:30-6:30: roaming around Rome - Trevi, Piazza di Spagna, Castel S. Angelo…
- Evening: Dinner at the Hotel or in Rome, independently or as group
- 9:00-1:30- Portrait Drawing in studio with female model
- 1:30-2:30 Lunch
- 2:30-5:30: visit at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica (Palazzo Barberini)
- 5:30: free time - roaming around Rome
- Evening: Dinner at the Hotel or in Rome, independently or as group
- 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM: field trip at Tarquinia transportation to the site with van.
- Possible Field Sketching
- Evening: Dinner at the Hotel or in Rome, independently or as group
- 9:00-1:30: Portrait Drawing in studio with female model
- 1:30-2:30: Lunch
- 2:30-5:30: visit at the Colosseo
- 5:30: free time - roaming around Rome
- Evening: Dinner at the Hotel or in Rome, independently or as group
- 9:00-1:30: Portrait Drawing in studio with male model
- 1:30-2:30: Lunch
- 2:30-5:30: visit at Musei Capitolini
- 5:30: free time - roaming around Rome
- Evening: Dinner at the Hotel or in Rome, independently or as group
- 9:00 - 2:00: archeological site visit to Villa Adriana in Tivoli, transportation by van
- 3:30-7:30: Portrait Drawing in studio with female model
- Evening: Dinner at the Hotel or in Rome, independently or as group
- 9:00-1:30: Portrait Drawing in studio with male model
- 1:30-2:30: Lunch
- 3-6: Visit at Musei Vaticani & Basilica S. Pietro
- 6: free time - roaming around Rome
- Evening: Dinner at the Hotel or in Rome, independently or as group
- Morning: Free Morning
- Departure
RATES
8 Days in BB Accomodation
What is Included
- Travel Insurance
- Hotel stay with breakfast
- Art Instruction
- Field Trips & Museum Outings Transportations
- Museum tickets
- Studio Space
- Models
What is Not Included
- Air fare
- Transfer Airport/Hotel
- Lunch/Dinner
Things to Know
- The cost of the air ticket is usually around $800
- The cost an average lunch or dinner is about $15/30 per meal.
- We will be staying at the BV Oly hotel. The Hotel is a 5 minutes subway ride from the city center
You can Register clicking on this button. After you have registered, You will receive an email message asking for a $200 deposit, to book your spot.
