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Curt’s richly illustrated and history drenched lectures are unique. His ability to share entertaining stories of art, architecture, family history, animals, humor, and love is unparalleled. With an infectious enthusiasm, Curt educates the listener with his encyclopedic knowledge, sets information in context, and shares interesting anecdotes that makes history come alive. He truly provides something for everybody!

The Cock & Lion: French Design in British Historic Houses

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Photo of the Tapestry Room from Croome Court, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

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Baroque Style in the English Country House: Drama, Luxury, Opulence

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April 4,
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Photo of the Great Hall at Blenheim Palace by Gary Ullah / Wikipedia

 

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A British Country House Alphabet in Providence

Part of the Providence Athenaeum's Ex Libris Series

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April 24,
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The Antiquarto, Episode 1: Conversation with Curt DiCamillo

I'm pleased to introduce The Antiquarto, my new conversation series. Join me for episode one, a conversation with architectural historian Curt DiCamillo, as we discuss some of the highlights in the fine art collection at New England Historic Genealogical Society, the new book Family Treasures, and our unique heritage tours to locales across the United Kingdom, Italy, America, and beyond.

To learn more about American Ancestors Heritage Tours, please contact heritagetours@ or visit our website.

Figure 1. The Treat Rotunda at NEHGS. Figures 1, 2, 4, and 5 are courtesy of the author

The New England Historic Genealogical Society is rediscovering many treasures within its Atkinson-Lancaster Collection, an eclectic assemblage of art that came to the Society in from the Atkinson family of Newburyport, Massachusetts. The Atkinsons made their fortune in the nineteenth-century India trade. We’ve just rehung the Treat Rotunda (Figure 1) with pieces from the collection, including two lovely celadon-and-cream-colored nineteenth-century Chinese garden seats (Figure 2, below).

Figure 2

Garden seats are found all over the world, but usually as decorative arts objects in interior spaces. They were, of course, originally developed as a comfortable place to sit while gardening, and were made of material (usually porcelain) that could stand up to all kinds of weather. They are always hollow, and open at the bottom, to allow water to drain.

 

 

 

 

Figure 3. The Atkinson-Lancaster villa in Calcutta, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Figure 4.

The Atkinson family probably acquired our two garden seats when they lived in India in the s. (You can see

Curt Di Camillo - Biography

Biography

DiCamillo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Merion, Pennsylvania, and Clermont, Florida. As of , he lives in Boston, Massachusetts. His sister is children's book author Kate DiCamillo.

DiCamillo is an authority on the British country house and has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad on the subject and taught classes on British culture, art, and architecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since he has maintained an award-winning website, The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses, that seeks to document every English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish country house ever built, standing or demolished, together with a history of the families who lived in the houses, the architects who designed them, and the history of the houses' collections and gardens. In recognition of his work DiCamillo has been presented to the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and The Prince of Wales.

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