Past Lectures & Study Days
Here you can read about some of the treats you may have missed!
2011
- L.S. Lowry - A Visionary Artist
- Dreamtime to Machinetime: Aboriginal Art and Culture
- Angels, Saints & Virgins - the Extraordinary Art of the Hispanic Andes
- The Benin Bronzes: Nigerian Masterpieces in the British Museum and Elsewhere 16th-19th Century
- The World in a Grain of Sand: William Blake
- Transports of Delight: the art of the travel poster of the 1930s
- Wigs, Waistcoats and Weepers
- Persistent Memory: the Art of Salvador Dali
- Poets, Painters and Private Lives in Venice: Artists in 19rh Century Venice
- Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites
- The Elizabethan and Jacobean Country House
2010
- Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes
- The Fauves: Trial by Fire
- The Colour of Light: Contemporary Stained Glass
- Hans Holbein In England
- The Good and Simple Life: artists’ colonies in Europe and Britain
- The “New” Berlin – Art and Architecture
- I Am a Genius: Artistic Identity and the Changing Status of Artists
- Fakes and Forgeries: the Art of Deception
- Public Statements and Private Lives: British Church Monuments through the Ages
- The book of Kells and Its Origins
- Lucian Freud
- Behind the Veil: The Arts of Islamic Persia
2009
- Noel Coward: “The Master” as actor, playwright and painter
- Turner and Romanticism
- Art and the Mill Towns
- The Importance of Colour in Painting
- Francis I of France (1494-1547) – Renaissance Prince and Patron
- The Importance of Colour in Painting
2008
- Andrea Palladio and the English Palladians
- The Prado - one of the World's great museums
- Gustav Klimt
- Art in Miniature: illuminated books of hours in the Middle Ages