The Art of Cornwall – Newlyn and Lamorna
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list for any cancellations. This day-school will examine how the foundations of modern painting developed in Cornwall in the late 1880s … More details …
Florence and the Dawn of the Renaissance
Why did the renaissance start in Florence? Florentine art and history at the time of Fra Angelico, Uccello, Botticelli and others. What was it about 15th century Florence that provided the ingredients for an apparent explosion of art and culture? … More details …
Reading Paintings
This course is fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list for any cancellations. Explore the links between art and literature, from the Mona Lisa to The Lady of Shalott. We will … More details …
Paris 1925: The Birth of Art Deco and Modernism
This course is fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on a waiting list for any cancellations. A thoroughly French affair, the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale Des Arts Decoratifs et Industrials Moderne was dominated by … More details …
Great Spanish Masters: El Greco, Velázquez, Goya
El Greco was born in Crete, but later painted in Italy and then Madrid and Toledo. His highly dramatic and expressionistic art was not appreciated in his own time, but much regarded in later centuries. His altarpieces and religious themes … More details …
Art and architecture along the Silk Road
This course will take us on a journey in the footsteps of the merchants who travelled the Silk Road, studying some of the sites they would have seen in the first millenium when mercantile activity was at its height. We … More details …
Introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list for any cancellations. This course will look at the origins and philosophies of the Arts and Crafts Movement, examining its … More details …
The Pre-Raphaelite Dream – Explore the Victorian avant garde.
Explore the Victorian avant garde. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848, and we will focus on its core members: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt. These artists were notorious for their painting style and their … More details …
Introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement
This course is fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list for any cancellations. “With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. … More details …
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Four
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list in case of any cancellations. Charles Rennie Mackintosh is now lauded as Scotland’s greatest modern architect but sadly his potential … More details …
Caspar David Friedrich – Humanity and Nature
2024 sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich, the father of German Romanticism. He transformed landscape painting into ‘art for a new age’, examining the relationship between man and the natural world. Key pictures by Friedrich … More details …
National Treasures: More Iconic Paintings from the National Gallery
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on a waiting list in case of any cancellations. In this study day we will continue to investigate some of the greatest paintings in … More details …
From the Bayeux Tapestry to the Wilton Diptych
After a brief survey of the period from the eleventh century to the fifteenth, we will focus firstly on the Bayeux Tapestry – “one of the most enchanting pieces of narrative art in existence” ( Talbot Rice). It is a … More details …
National Treasures: Iconic paintings from the National Gallery
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list in case of any cancellations. In this study day we will investigate some of the greatest paintings in our national … More details …
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list in case of any cancellations. The German Expressionists brought dazzling colours to the art world in the years surrounding the … More details …