Prof. William Barcham, Emeritus of the Fashion Institute of Technology, delivers a lecture on the production of paintings of public festivals and other civic events in Venice in the eighteenth century. Delivered as a part of the lecture series accompanying the Franke Seminar entitles, Art and Music in Venice, Prof. Barcham’s lecture treats the genre of painting social and civic events in the city of Venice, such as Carnivale, religious Feast Day celebrations, and other civic rituals. View painters, such as Canaletto and Francesco Guardi, painted numerous depictions of these distinctively Venetian festivities for purposes of sale and export and the fashioning of Venetian identity. Prof. Barcham is a specialist in Venetian art and culture and has published numerous works on Canaletto, Giambattista Tiepolo, Federico Cornaro, and the image of the Man of Sorrows in the later Middle Ages.