Programme of Lectures 2010-2011
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NEXT LECTURE
- 15th September 2010
7:15pm 20th Anniversary Drinks Reception
8.00pm Address by Gri Harrison, NADFAS National Chair
8:15pm TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE: SILVER AND SOCIAL CUSTOM
Lecturer: Ian Pickford who was our inaugural lecturer
Why were such extraordinary objects as Clock Salts produced in the Tudor period and what was mustard served in before 1760? To appreciate any pieces it is essential to examine them in the context of the social customs of the periods in which they were made. All will be revealed during this talk.
PROGRAMME for 2010-11
- 15th September 2010
Lecturer: Ian Pickford
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE: SILVER AND SOCIAL CUSTOM
Why were such extraordinary objects as Clock Salts produced in the Tudor period and what was mustard served in before 1760? To appreciate any pieces it is essential to examine them in the context of the social customs of the periods in which they were made. All will be revealed during this talk. - 20th October 2010
Lecturer: Eric Shanes
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF J.M.W. TURNER
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was undoubtedly Britain’s greatest painter if not even the greatest landscape and marine artist of all time. He excelled both as a watercolourist and an oil painter and his technical fluency and virtuosity are always on display. Eric Shanes, the recently retired Chairman of the Turner Society, puts Turner’s achievement as an artist within its cultural, painterly and biographical context. - 17th November 2010
Lecturer: Geoffrey Toms
THE KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
The Knights Templars and the Knights Hospitallers were established in Jerusalem in the 12th century. After the total evacuation of the Holy Land they settled in different places in the Mediterranean the most famous of which are Rhodes and Malta. The lecture sets the Knights in their historical context while concentrating on their architectural and artistic record. - 19th January 2011
Lecturer: John Drake
ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN TURKEY. SINAN
Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan from 1520 until 1566, ruled the Ottoman Empire from Topkapi Palace in Constantinople. He used much of the wealth he acquired as loot from his campaigns and from the taxes he levied to adorn Constantinople with mosques, palaces and pious foundations. Sinan, his chief architect, designed the 120 buildings constructed in the 16th century which still survive today. - 16th February 2011
Lecturer: Clare Ford-Wille
GARDENS IN ART FROM THE GREEKS TO PICASSO
From the Egyptians until our own time people have enjoyed designing and taking pleasure in gardens. Both imaginary and real gardens have been painted. The lecture explores the ways in which they have been portrayed by a varied range of painters including Van Eyck, Tintoretto, Monet, Allingham and Beatrix Potter. - 16th March 2011
Lecturer: Marion Hundelby
FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN – 60 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
The Festival is set in the context of commemorating the Great Exhibition and the need for regeneration and optimism following the Second World War. The lecture focuses on the new designs featured in the Festival and the contributions of the leading architects of the time as well as considering the controversy surrounding the event. - 20th April 2011
Lecturer: Hilary Williams
ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL AND WREN’S CITY CHURCHES
2010 was the 300th anniversary of Wren’s masterpiece, St Paul’s Cathedral. As well as this, he was commissioned after the Great Fire of 1666 to construct 51 parish churches in the City of London of which 24 still survive. The lecture gives a fascinating insight into his work. - 18th May 2011
Lecturer: The Rt Revd Dr Christopher Herbert
A MEDIEVAL MASTERPIECE : THE HOTEL-DIEU AT BEAUNE
Nicholas Rolin was one of the most powerful men in Western Europe in the 15th century and the creator of the Hotel-Dieu. What lay behind the creation of this medieval hospice? What was the purpose of the Van Der Weyden painting in the main ward? What can all of this tell us about the medieval mind? - 15th June 2011
Lecturer: Charles Harris
THE SPIRIT OF CHERET, THE FATHER OF THE MODERN POSTER
Jules Cheret mastered the art of paining and the skills of lithography and his posters inspired a generation of new artists and greatly influenced advertising. He impressed the impressionists and taught Lautrec. Critics agreed that it was Cheret’s artistry that put the belle into the Belle Epoque. - 15th July 2011
7.45pm AGM
8.15pm ART INSPIRED BY WINE
Lecturer: John Ericson
“Life without Art is like dinner without wine. Why bother?” John Ericson examines paintings of wine being made and consumed in celebration since the time of Noah as well as more contemporary artwork on wine labels and in catalogues by artists such as Chagall and the cartoonist Ronald Searle. - 21st September 2011
Lecturer: Valerie Woodgate
ART TREASURES OF PARIS
Paris is a treasure house for the art lover. We look at the treasures of the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay and other less well known museums including the Musée Cluny and Musée Picasso. We also examine some of the external sculptures of Notre Dame and the magnificent interior of the Sainte Chapelle.
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