Illustrated theatre talks by leading academics, curators and other experts. They last around an hour.
December
3 Wednesday, 6.30am – 7.30pm
Lecture
Renaissance Faces: Portraits and Pendants
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January
7 Wednesday, 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel
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21 Wednesday, 6.30–7.30pm
Paul Mellon Lecture
William Hogarth: ‘Subjects I consider’d as writers do’
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14 Wednesday , 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism shaped Renaissance Portraiture
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28 Wednesday, 6.30–7.30pm,
Paul Mellon Lecture
Joshua Reynolds: ‘He can never be a great artist who is grossly illiterate’
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February
2 Monday, 6.30–7.30pm
The Francis Haskell Lecture
Good Citizenship: Venetian ‘Cittadini’ as Patrons of the Arts
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4 Wednesday, 6.30–7.30pm,
Paul Mellon Lecture
John Constable: ‘From the window I am writing I see all those sweet fields…’
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11 Wednesday, 6.30–7.30pm,
Paul Mellon Lecture
J. M. W. Turner: ‘Painting and poetry… reflect and heighten each other’s beauties’
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18 Wednesday, 6.30–7.30pm,
Paul Mellon Lecture
William Blake: ‘I dare not pretend to be anything other than the Secretary -the Authors are in Eternity’
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