Join Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art, as she gives a Noontime Talk on the exhibition, A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators and special guests.

A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s is organized in cooperation with Contemporanea Progetti in Florence, Italy. This exhibition celebrates the theater and spectacle of Venice—in public and private life—in paintings, costumes, furnishings, glass, ceremonial regalia, and an exquisite gondola finial (see image at left).