Lectures and Courses
The Cult of Celebrity
The Inexorable Rise of Celebrity in the Art World
Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Belle, Pre-Raphaelites
24 April – 19 June 2018
Exhilarating Places
New York, Utopia, St Petersburg, South & North Cornwall, Arcadia, Bruges, Avalon, Thermopylae, Roncesvalles, Xanadu
25 April – 27 June 2018
20th Century London: A City in Flux
Imperial London, London County Council, Philanthropy, London Underground, BBC, Hampstead, City of London, NHS, Festival of Britain, Barbican, Festival Hall, Pimlico, Silver Jubilee, Canary Wharf, London Docklands
19 September 2018 – 13 March 2019
The Art of Dress in Literature, and Life
Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Spenser, Olivier, Greer Garson, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Frith, Rossetti, Millais
20 September – 4 October 2018
A History of German Art
Schongauer, Durer, Cranach, Holbein, Elsheimer, Mengs, Friedrich, Menzel
25 September – 27 November 2018
Japanese Art & Modern Culture: Japan’s Influences on Western Art
Helan Culture, Buddhism, Shinto Arts, Samurai Culture, Bushido, Japanase Tea houses, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Bauhaus, Kimono, Rinpa, Ukiyo-e, Edo era, Manga, Hyper-Japan
11 October – 29 November 2018
Homes and Gardens
Castles in the Middle Ages, Renaissance interiors, Elizabeth I, John Tradscant, Palladianism, Grand Tour, Wedgwood, Chippendale, Bath, John Nash, Queen Victoria, the Shard
8 January – 12 March 2019
The Decorative Arts of Europe 1500-2000
Renaissance decorative arts, Baroque furniture, silver, porcelain, gold, c.18th France, Industrial Revolution, Arts and Crafts, Bauhaus, c.20th design
10 January – 28 February 2019
Art & Critical Analysis
Vasari, Alighieri, nude sculptures, Venetian Art, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini,
Vermeer, Hogarth, Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelites
30 April – 2 July 2019
The Aeneid
The Aeneid, Virgil, Trojan inferno, Carthage, Queen Dido, Laocoon, Troy, Helen of Troy, Creusa, Jupiter, Mercury, Anchises, Sicily, Palinurus, Sibyl, Deiphobus, Circe, Pallas, Turnus, Juno, Fury Allecto, Deiphobus
1 May – 3 July 2019
A History of Art in Ten Colours
Cennini, Da Vinci, Kandisky, Monet, Van Gogh, Hans Arp, Georgia O’Keefe, painting colours
2 May – 4 July 2019
