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Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807): An Artist in 18th Century England
Angelica Kauffmann's training, Continental reputation and years in England provide the frame for this lecture.
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A lunchtime lecture
Art and Colonialism
A City Lit lecture on art and colonialism, from images of England's countryside to abolition and its aftermath.
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Botticelli and Florence
Why are Botticelli's most beautiful paintings still so hard to explain?
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Daniel Mytens and the Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting in England
Daniel Mytens opens a discussion of foreign painters at the courts of James I and Charles I.
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Dido Elizabeth Lindsay Belle and the Beginnings of Abolition
Dido Belle's life at Kenwood is considered alongside early abolition and changes in representation.
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Dürer: The Italian & Northern Renaissance
Dürer's work reveals a lively exchange between the Italian and Northern Renaissance.
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Gender and the Body
How has the idea of the perfect body, and of gender, been reshaped across the history of art?
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Iconography
How do signs and symbols guide the way we read an Italian Renaissance painting?
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Impressionism: The Spontaneity of Life, Caught in the Moment
Modern life, photography and the challenge of painting quickly all shaped Impressionism.
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J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851): From Covent Garden to Rome
Turner's journey from his Covent Garden upbringing to Rome traces a career built around light and landscape.
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Joseph Wright of Derby and the Men and Art of the Lunar Society
Joseph Wright's art is set beside the experiments and debates of the Lunar Society.
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Journey of the Magi: Origins, Myth and Reality
The Magi changed in art as their names, gifts and identities gathered new meanings.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Maestro del Disegno at the Court of Milan
Leonardo's training with Verrocchio prepared him for a very different career at the Sforza court in Milan.
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Leslie Primo at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts
A guided introduction to selected works from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts.
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Masters of the Renaissance: Leonardo and Michelangelo
Leonardo and Michelangelo approached anatomy, training and artistic ambition in markedly different ways.
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The Cult of the Celebrity: Omai, the Exotic and Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds's portrait of Omai raises questions about celebrity, empire and the construction of the exotic.
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The Cult of the South Pacific: From Cook to Gauguin
Artists helped turn the South Pacific into a Western idea of the exotic and the earthly paradise.
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The Divine Michelangelo: The Power and the Glory
Michelangelo's training and sculpture lead into the scale and ambition of the Sistine Chapel.
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The Story of the Renaissance: The Original Masters
The Renaissance began before Leonardo and Michelangelo became its most familiar names.
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The Sublime in the Everyday: Johannes Vermeer 1632–1675
Vermeer's quiet Delft interiors made ordinary moments feel carefully measured and luminous.
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The Wilton Diptych Enigma
The Wilton Diptych brings medieval kingship, patronage and iconography into one small, enigmatic work.
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Titian to Van Dyck: The Art of Portraiture
Portraiture developed from the profile forms of coins and the early Renaissance to the commanding images of Titian and Van Dyck.
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