Cocktails with a Curator: Guardi's “Regatta in Venice" and "View of Cannaregio Canal in Venice”

In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” set a course for 18th-century Venice as Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon discusses a pair of “vedute” (views) by Francesco Guardi. Displayed on the third floor of Frick Madison alongside works by Tiepolo and Rosalba Carriera, Guardi’s pictures present a lively city with color-coordinated boatmen, laundry hanging from balconies, and liveried attendants greeting dignitaries. This week’s complementary cocktail is the Sgroppino, a Venetian refreshment dating to the 16th century.
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FEATURED COCKTAIL: Sgroppino (lemon sorbet, vodka, and prosecco, garnished with mint); the mocktail is lemon sorbet and sparkling lemonade. For the complete recipes, visit www.frick.org/cocktails-curator
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[@bahhumbug9824]

I could listen to Xavier speak just in Italian for hours and still be riveted.

[@carolecowan4322]

I have so enjoyed this series! It has been one of the bright spots in the past year. AND I love the way the paintings and other art works are displayed at the Frick/Madison. I could never have imagined how different, but beautiful they look in the different setting. Congratulations to the Curators!

[@BCBNYC]

Bravo Dr. Salomon! Thank you for transporting me to Venice.

[@rosemarycaruso9071]

Thank you Xavier, another wonderful and informative talk.

[@ritabiro5105]

Dear Mr.Salamon.I am gled to see Venice with his beautifull palaces.The artist mad hier everlasting capolavoroes to admire for centuries.I have short visited 2 times the lagunas city and enjoyed once the mascetball and remained in my memory a place never to forget but to recognise every treasure is not possible.Thanks again from Krailling /Munich/ Spending one week and able to enjoy Stanberg lake with sailing boots but not comparable with Venice regatta.Arrideverci

[@Thomas-fu8vp]

Very Antonio Morassi. I live in Italy and visit Venice thrice yearly. In between visits my non-working hours are dedicated to planning and studying for the upcoming trip. My life revolves around these visits to the Serenissima. Visually recording every stone, every door handle, each intriguing fissura is my passion. Grazie Signor Salomon.

[@susprime7018]

Magical Venice. A place to watch the regatta and one another.

[@susanhepburn6040]

Thank you very much, Xavier.

[@texasboy5117]

As a big fan of Canaletto learning about Guardi was very enjoyable.

[@dukeofhaas]

Greetings from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where we thoroughly enjoyed another superlative graduate level mini-class delivered by The Frick Collection's most charismatic curator/instructor. Ciao for now!

[@nickcase8794]

I was indeed transported back to Venice by this episode, wonderfully evocative and informative. Thank you.

[@lucanardecchia2859]

Thank you Xavier. I can' t wait to visit Venezia again. Bravissimo.

[@janetthomas8244]

Nice to have you back Xavier. I did have a sgroppino once, but on Lake Como. Delicious, if a bit strong.

[@melizen2]

Thank you - you've made Venice come alive ~

[@claudettedelphis6476]

Fabulous series 🍒
You are the top of my very exquisite museum ⚡️🪐🌸🪴☘️
So enjoy having a cocktail 🍸 with you 🌿🎋🌹🌼🌸🌺🌝
What a joy you bring to our home 🏡
Handsome, articulate, enchanting and so much more 💫✨🥂🍾
Thank you and merci beaucoup ☺️

[@christineatherton6355]

This was a spectacular lecture. Thank you for the fascinating details about the city…bridges, buildings, ambassadors, etc. I did not know anything about Guardi, but now I want to research Venetian artists. You did, indeed, transport me to the city.

[@kaloarepo288]

I remember decades ago watching a production on TV of Offenbach's opera "Tales of Hoffman" part of which is set in Venice -the part that features the 2 courtesans singing the barcarole or gondola duet.The costumes and poses of this production were all based on the paintings of Guardi and still remains in my memory as a magical thing.

[@adorabledeplorable4638]

Yes, I was transported to Venice. Wonderful. And was just thinking I would like the recipes for the cocktails and there they are! Buona Note

[@ejmeadows]

Yet another brilliant and interesting program. I knew little about Guardi beyond his name. And many congratulations on your Webby Award: very well deserved.

[@kishdanilo]

After visiting Frick Madison and discovering Francesco Guardi’s vivid, impressionistic images for the first time (I am used to comparing Canaletto’s detailed, precise Venitian sites, with Guardi’s freer renderings in the European Wing, in MET) it is great to learn about the background of both the painter and the subject matter. Thank you!

[@pgidon]

Hi from Paris. Marvelous paintings

[@InfoArtistJKatTheGoodInfoCafe]

Thank you. I have a painting from the eighteenth century that may be an early Guardi.

[@pegnorth2818]

Wonderful, yes it did transport....thank you!

[@dawnjackson1802]

Thank you. 🇨🇦

[@MrZohreh100]

Thank you so much I really enjoyed it.

[@jeannetterodriguez-pagan8168]

Hello from Mahwah, N J.!

[@janetthomas8244]

Had a sgroppino once on Lake Como though. Delicious but a bit strong.

[@Vincent112june]

It looks like a lense was used.