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Friday, January 27, 2023 · 11:00 AM GMTFrom the early sixteenth century the military, diplomatic and civilian duties of the family were increasingly complimented by cultural exchange and artistic patronage. The poetess Vittoria Colonna was a spiritual friend and confidant of Michelange...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023 · 11:00 AM GMTThe Colonna family were well-established in Rome by the thirteenth century. Members had been created cardinals as the family accumulated properties across the city and increased its territories in the surrounding countryside. Oddone Colonna was ...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023 · 10:20 AM GMTThe Colonna family were well-established in Rome by the thirteenth century. Members had been created cardinals as the family accumulated properties across the city and increased its territories in the surrounding countryside. Oddone Colonna was ...
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Friday, July 1, 2022 · 11:00 AM BSTThe final years of Raphael’s life are marked by an almost frenzied activity. There were ambitious projects at the Vatican for Pope Leo X including the cartoons for the Sistine Chapel tapestries and new architectural projects; for the papal banker...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 · 11:00 AM BSTStylistically and professionally, Raphael’s trajectory in his early Roman years is astonishing. We can trace his rapid development from the serene, balanced scenography of his first work for Pope Julius II in the Vatican, the Stanza della Segnatu...
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Friday, June 24, 2022 · 11:00 AM BSTRaphael (born 1483) grew up in the artistically refined ambit of Urbino, the son of court painter Giovanni Santi. According to Vasari, he was apprenticed to Perugino in Perugia, and although recent scholarship has questioned this, by the time he ...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022 · 11:00 AM BSTLong valued for its rarity, beauty, versatility, and longevity, gold was used to illuminate the exteriors and interiors of manuscripts made from the 5th to the 16th centuries around the globe. This webinar complements the British Library’s exhibit...
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Friday, May 13, 2022 · 11:00 AM BSTWordsworth wrote that Venice “held the gorgeous east in fee’. Pride and profit drove the Venetian’s patriotic duty to expand its trade across the seas, connecting Venice both to the Orient and the lucrative markets of northern Europe. From the nin...
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 · 11:00 AM BSTAt the beginning of the Christian era rising sea levels covered much of the coastal Veneto. Sea levels later decreased to leave a series of small islands whose natural evolution was aided by deposits from Alpine rivers which flowed into the northe...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022 · 11:00 AM GMTJohn Singer Sargent was at the centre of a cultural shift as the American art world looked towards Europe with London and Paris acting as its expatriate hubs. Though Sargent had received formal French academic training, he imbibed the Impressionis...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 · 11:00 AM GMTSargent’s art was best expressed in portraiture, the mainstay of his long career. He possessed an acute eye for composition with a daring flair for vivid gestures and sharp profiles. Alluding to the Old Master portrait painters, he borrowed from t...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021 · 11:00 AM GMTIn July 1520 Dürer, with his wife Agnes and their maid, set off from Nuremberg for the Netherlands, where they remained for a year. The pretext for the journey was to attend the coronation of the Emperor Charles V at Aachen (seen above, in a sketc...
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Monday, January 24, 2022 · 4:15 PM GMTSargent’s art was best expressed in portraiture, the mainstay of his long career. He possessed an acute eye for composition with a daring flair for vivid gestures and sharp profiles. Alluding to the Old Master portrait painters, he borrowed from t...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021 · 9:20 AM GMTThe Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund of Luxemburg and Bohemia, elevated Amadeus VIII from count to Duke of Savoy in 1416, a status consolidated over the next hundred years, culminating in the decision to move the ducal capital from alpine Chambéry t...
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Thursday, May 27, 2021 · 9:30 AM BSTAppointed as Chancellor of England in 1155, Becket enjoyed a gilded life, and basked in the approbation of his king; no-one could have predicted he would die violently, slaughtered by four knights acting on Henry II’s orders. Relations between Bec...
Series
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Lecture SeriesWriting in 1568 Giorgio Vasari described Donatello in the following terms: ‘he was not only a very rare sculptor and a marvellous statuary, but also a practised worker in stucco, an able master of perspective, and greatly esteemed as an architect…...
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Lecture SeriesJohannes (Jan) Vermeer remains the most enigmatic of Dutch ‘Golden Age’ painters. Born in 1632 and dead by 1675, a native of Delft where he spent his entire life, we know very little about him, his training and the influences which shaped his art....
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Lecture SeriesThe princely House of Colonna has occupied a position at the fulcrum of Rome’s history from their recorded origins in the eleventh century to the present day. No other aristocratic family has enjoyed such a place at the heart of the religious, pol...
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Lecture SeriesOn the 23rd November 1922, Howard Carter broke through the blocked doorway and entered the tomb of the young Pharaoh, Tutankhamun who had been buried in c.1,327 BC, over 4,000 years ago. It was the first intact royal Egyptian tomb ever found by a...
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Lecture SeriesVenice rose from the water of a lagoon in the upper Adriatic. From the fifth century the Adriatic Veneti sought refuge on its scattered islands from the Visigoth, Hun and Longobard invasions that overran the north-eastern Italian peninsula as the ...
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Lecture SeriesWe regret that we have had to change the dates from those originally published. Lecture 1 will now take place on Tue 12 Apr & Lecture 2 on Wed 20 Apr. We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Lecture SeriesThe just over a hundred years between the accession of Philip II as King of Spain in 1556 and the death of his grandson, Philip IV, in 1665 saw momentous changes within the Spanish Habsburg Empire. Whilst remaining geographically almost intact, th...
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Lecture SeriesAs the British Museum launches its great ground-breaking World of Stonehenge exhibition this spring (17 February - 17 July), we enter the remarkable and innovative Neolithic Age of 5,000 years ago. This ‘New Stone Age’ was a time of the e...
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Lecture SeriesVienna in the 1780s was an irresistible draw to the 25-year-old Mozart. Centre of the Habsburg Empire, with an Emperor who was a keen supporter of the arts, Vienna had a population of 200,000, and limitless opportunities for public concerts and pr...
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Lecture SeriesThe Habsburgs were Europe's most influential ruling dynasty of the early modern era. Their origins in Alpine obscurity gave no suggestion of the vast territories they would eventually control, governed from their European bases in Madrid, Vienna, ...
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Lecture SeriesBorn in Florence to American parents, John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) was celebrated as a cosmopolitan expatriate painter of international renown. His lucrative career inspired comparisons to Velazquez, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Manet whilst his ex...
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Lecture SeriesStraddling the alpine passes between France and Italy, the House of Savoy rose from 11th century feudal counts to Imperial dukes and princes, eventually becoming kings of Sardinia and finally of Italy, traversing a thousand years of European hist...
