Lectures

The following list of titles represents some of the topics offered to groups including the Arts Society. I am happy to develop additional titles on request. All lectures are accompanied with digital imagery.

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Medieval & Tudor topics:

  • Romanesque Art
  • The Chantry Chapel in Late Medieval England
  • The King’s Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort
  • The Elizabethan Prodigy House

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Spanish topics:

  • Córdoba and beyond: Muslim art & architecture in Spain
  • Sofonisba Anguissola
  • A Greek in Spain: El Greco
  • The Painter’s Painter: Diego Velázquez
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Francisco Goya
  • Persistent Memory: The Art of Salvador Dali
  • Visigothic Art & Architecture in Spain4a1315_192bce560ea74dccb449443d690fb7ae

German Topics:

  • German Artists in the First World War
  • George Grosz: The Hogarth of Weimar Germany
  • Silent Lines like a Cry of Pain: the Art of Kathe Kollwitz
  • Otto Dix and New Objectivity4a1315_b0954b7060474bc0aed1bb5c6e70ad2b

Other assorted topics:

  • Art & Architecture along the Silk Road
  • Gods & Gardens: Ancient Roman Wall Painting
  • Pietro Torrigiano: The Sculptor who broke Michelangelo’s nose
  • Tokens of Love: Portrait Miniatures
  • Women who bucked the trend: 17th & 18th century Female Painters
  • Pouring Scorn on his fellows: the Work of William Hogarth
  • 19th Century Women Artists
  • Tom Roberts & the Heidelberg School
  • The Ash Can School of Painting