Past Lectures

Lecture Programme 2011/2012

9 February 2012
Masters of the Irrational: Dali, Ernst and Magritte
by Justine Hopkins

12 January 2012
The Black Death: A Turning Point in the Arts
by Tom Beaumont James

8 December 2011
Brothers of the Brush - Artist Monks in Fifteenth Century Florence
by Siân Walters

10 November 2011
Dreamtime to Machine Time: Aboriginal Art and Culture
by Rebecca Hossack

13 October 2011
Who says? Can we trust the experts on Good and Bad Art?
by David Phillips

7 July 2011
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
by Chloë Sayer

9 June 2011
From Fresco to Frame
by Clare Ford-Wille

12 May 2011
William Bankes and Kingston Lacy
by Anne Sebba

14 April 2011
Music inspired by paintings and Paintings inspired by Music
by Peter Medhurst

10 March 2011
Renaissance Venetian Glass and Its European Progeny
by Caroline MacDonald-Haig

Lecture Programme 2010/2011

10 February 2011
The Glittering Canvas: Jewellery in Portraits 1750-1850
by Clare Phillips

13 January 2011
Sunflowers and Old Blue: Oscar Wilde and the House Beautiful
by Anne Anderson

9 December 2010
The Sacred Art of Tibet
by Zara Fleming

11 November 2010
At Rest in Kew: the Life and Art of Johann Zoffany
by Frances Hughes

14 October 2010
Jungles in Paris: The Extraordinary Art of Douanier Rousseau
by Frank Woodgate

8 July 2010
18th century Gardens of Delight
by Marilyn Elm

10 June 2010
New York, New York: An Architectural Discovery
by Andrew Davies

13 May 2010
Botticelli - 500 years
by Hilary Guise

8 April 2010
Roland Penrose and Lee Miller at Farley Farm
by Anthony Penrose

11 March 2010
Vietnam: Ancient and Contemporary Artistic Heritage
by Denise Heywood

Lecture Programme 2009/2010

11 February 2010
Houses and Gardens of the Bordeaux Region
by Helen McCabe

14 January 2010
Fabergé: The Life and the Work of the World's Greatest Goldsmith
by John Benjamin

10 December 2009
A Medieval Menagerie, Animals in the Art of the Middle Ages
Chloë Cockerill

12 November 2009
Matthew Boulton and the Great Silver Manufactory
Ian Pickford

8 October 2009
'All that glitters...' The Painting Techniques and Conservation of Portraits by William Larkin (c1610-19)
Sarah Cove

2 July 2009
Plantation Houses of the American South
Roger Mitchell

11 June 2009
King George III: Art Collector
Oliver Everett

14 May 2009
Verdi and Victoria: 'National Icons'
Daniel Snowman

2 April 2009
Whores, Colourmen and Coffeehouses: The London Art Scene in the 18th century
Hugh Belsey

12 March 2009
The Crisis in the Decorative Arts - The Artist or the Designer (1889-1939)
Diana Lloyd

Lecture Programme 2008/9

12 February 2009
Rescuing Zeugma from the Floodwaters of the Euphrates
Louise Schofield

l8 January 2009
Palladio - 'An original unimaginatively copied'
Hugh Cantlie

11 December 2008
A Journey through the Middle East with 19th Century Artists
Felicity Herring

13 November 2008
Europe's Best Kept Secret: The Painted Monasteries of Bulgaria
John Osborne

2 October 2008
Dutch Little Masters including Jan Steen
Shirley Turner

3 July 2008
The Art and Architecture of the Khmer Empire
Dr Michael O'Brien

12 June 2008
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Artist, Architect, Designer
Marion Hundleby

8 May 2008
Textiles and Rugs from the Silk Route
Roderick Taylor

10 April 2008
Artemisia Gentileschi and Angelica Kauffman - Great Women Artists
Pamela Halford

13 March 2008
The Art of Exploration
James Taylor

Lecture Programme 2007/8

14 February 2008
Colour, Nature and the Norwich School
Dr Peter Kennedy Scott

l0 January 2008
The Scottish Colourists: Style and Sophistication from the Jazz Age
Vivien Heffernan

13 December 2007
Wedding Presents of the Italian Renaissance
Launce Gribbin

8 November 2007
Antoni Gaudi
Anthea Streeter

11 October 2007
The Wild Man of the Woods
David Bostwick

5 July 2007
The Tradescants: 17th century Plant and Art Collectors and Gardeners
Joanne Kidd

7 June 2007
Italian Art and Architecture of the Risorgimento
Christopher Garibaldi

10 May 2007
John Ruskin: Artist and Scientist
Dr David Cross

12 April 2007
Tyntesfield: Opening the Shutters
Francis Greenacre

8 March 2007
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: Bare Ruined Choirs
John Kenworthy-Browne