The Course Lecturers
All our lectures are taught by well-known, well-qualified lecturers who use high quality teaching materials including slides, digital images, video and music.
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Daniel EvansDan specialised in Italian Renaissance Villas and Gardens at Manchester University. He has led art historical expeditions throughout Europe and has lectured for many Scholars Societies of prestigious schools and universities around the UK. He has been shortlisted for the Paul Morrison Guide of the Year Award in association with Wanderlust and the Daily Telegraph.
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Graham FawcettGraham is a writer, broadcaster, translator and teacher. He worked in Florence for 4 years at the British Institute and now teaches courses, workshops and special events in poetry. For many years he has broadcast on literature and music for BBC Radio 3.
Lectures:
Transforming the Masterpiece
Talking Pictures, Sounding Sense
Look Here Upon This Picture, Then on This
Hidden Venice
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Nicola LoweNicola gained her BA in English and French at Cardiff University and was awarded her MA in the History of Art with distinction by Birkbeck, University of London. She published her dissertation - on women and textiles in the context of medieval parish life - in the journal Gender and History in 2010. She is a former producer and journalist for BBC Television News and Current Affairs and now combines teaching art history with research and writing. Her current research interests include the connections between medieval and Modernist art forms. She runs her own educational tours exploring medieval churches.
Lectures:
The Thread of Life
The Garden of Earthly Delights -
Federico BotanaHaving been awarded several scholarships, Federico wrote his doctoral thesis at The Courtauld Institute of Art where he has worked as a Visiting Lecturer since 2008. He recently completed a monograph on the representation of the Works of Mercy in Italian medieval art (Brepols Publishing, forthcoming, October 2011) and is currently working on fifteenth-century Florentine illuminated manuscripts of Aesop's Fables. His previous publications include an article in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes on the illustrative cycle of the medieval Occitan encyclopedic poem the Breviari d’Amor. Federico speaks 4 languages.
Lectures:
Town and Country: The Life of an Italian Prince -
Margaret KnightMargaret has degrees in Fine Art, Art History and Philosophy. She was head of Contextual Studies at East Ham College, visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture at Central London Polytechnic and the Open University. At the Victoria and Albert Museum she was responsible for the Adult Education programmes.. She has also acted as historical adviser on a number of television series and films. Co-founder of THE COURSE and COURSE STUDY TOURS, she is now free lance.
Lectures:
Revelations -
Philip ManselPhilip Mansel is a historian of France and the Ottoman Empire. He obtained his doctorate at London University for a thesis on the court of France. He is the author of ten books, including lives of Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne; histories of Constantinople and nineteenth century Paris; a survey of court dress from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II, Dressed to Rule; and, most recently, a history of Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut since the sixteenth century, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature and editor of The Court Historian, journal of the Society for Court Studies.
Lectures:
Courts and Monarchs -
Marie-Anne MancioMarie-Anne Mancio trained as an artist before gaining her D.Phil in art history from the University of Sussex and a subsequent MA in Creative Writing from Glasgow University. She is a freelance lecturer in Art History, writer on contemporary art and in 2011 exhibited at the Museum of Non-Visible Art, a conceptual art project by New York Praxis and James Franco.
Lectures:
Love, Marriage and Desire in Art
London's Smaller Art Collections
The Giants of the Baroque
Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?
The History of British Art
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James McDonaughAfter taking his degree in Philosophy & Theology at Oxford University, James went on to gain a Diploma in Art History and a Masters in Architectural History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has lectured on trips abroad for the Courtauld Institute, the National Arts Collection Fund, and for numerous schools and travel companies. He runs his own touring business for private clients.
Lectures:
Study tours
Istanbul
Equador & Peru
Ancient Greece
Syria and Baalbek in Lebanon
Great Country House of Dorset: A Private View
Northern Greece -
Stephen NelsonStephen studied at Cardiff and Birmingham Universities where he received an MA in Fine Art. In 1999 he was appointed the Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellow, which enabled him to work on his sculpture in Rome and Oxford. He exhibits both in Britain and abroad while also teaching at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Tate Britain, Hayward Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Lectures:
History of Modernity Course London -
Nicholas Ross Nick has written books on Canaletto, Miro and Florence. He lectures widely both in the UK and Europe. He was voted the No.1 Guide in the Daily Telegraph Review and was recently described as the 'Renaissance Man' by Clive Aslet in Country Life.
Lectures:
Town and Country: The Life of an Italian Prince -
Geoffrey TomsGeoffrey trained at Cambridge University and has devoted his lifetime to the ancient world. For twenty years he was Head of Education at the Museum of London which gave him a unique and special expertise in the understanding of the great city.
Lectures:
The Model and the Muse
Archaeology at the British Museum
The World's First City: The Legacy and Life of Victorian London
London Country Houses: Their Families and Their Architects
London in the 18th Century
Out and About in London’s Summer -
Nigel McGilchristNigel McGilchrist attended Oxford University, where he won a scholarship, prizes and medals in English and Art History. He has lived and worked in Italy, Greece and Turkey for 30 years. He worked for the Italian Government’s Ministero dei Beni Culturali as a consultant in fresco conservation, when the Vatican embarked on its controversial cleaning of the Sistine Chapel. He worked with Federico Zeri, J. Paul Getty’s closest art advisor and Italy’s most knowledgeable living art historian in the 1980s. He was Director of the Anglo-Italian Institute in Rome for 6 years, taught at the University of Rome, the University of Massachusetts, and was for 7 years the Dean of European Studies for Rhodes College & the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. He still lectures widely in art and archaeology. He is on the Board of Editors of the Blue Guides and has contributed to new editions on Italy. Over the last 7 years he has walked all 60 inhabited Aegean Greek Islands to prepare a new survey-guide of the art, archaeology, history and ecology of the area. It is available as a series of 20 small volumes McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, while an abridged, single-volume appears as the Blue Guide to Greece: the Aegean Islands. He is a Syrian expert and has travelled widely in the region.
Lectures:
Study Tours
Syria and Baalbek in Lebanon -
Richard WilliamsRichard Williams received his doctorate in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute, after which he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by The Paul Mellon Centre (Yale University). He is currently Associate lecturer in the Department of Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London as a specialist in Northern Renaissance art. He has published extensively from co-editing a book on Art and the Reformation to writing over ten chapters in academic books. Since 1999 he has been a lecturer in the Education Department of the National Gallery, and has recently been made director of the High Renaissance to Baroque Year Course at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Lectures:
Renaissance Art at the Crossroads