Art Lectures - Lecture VII: 8th May
Renaissance Genius Part II: Raphael, Titian and the Venetian School!
We end our Grand Tour of European Art by taking a closer look at the 16th century. Masters of atmosphere, colour and poetry will feed your imaginative world!

The course consists of seven lectures covering the main artistic movements. An introduction to the history of european art and great masters of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century. The first lecture focuses on the methods of observation and interpretation of a work of art; examples from all artistic genres will be studied according to line, colour, rhythm and iconography. The succeeding lectures will review the most important developments in painting and sculpture from the dawn of the Italian Renaissance to the revolutionary French Avant-garde.

 

• Oct 24th: “How to read a work of art and why”.
• Nov 22nd : Masaccio, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Pisanello, Mantegna, Botticelli & the transition from Gothic to Renaissance in Quattrocento Art.
• Jan 24th: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael & the High Renaissance genius.
• Feb 28th: Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Vermeer, Bernini and Rubens: the grand Baroque.
• Mar 27th: Watteau, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Canaletto, and Canova: Rococo and Neoclassicism, sense and sensibility.
• Apr 24th: The revolution begins: Barbizon, Impressionism and the birth of Expressionism in Van Gogh and Gauguin.
• May 8th: Renaissance geniuses part II , Titian and Raphael.

Lectures are held in English. They will have duration of approx. 90 minutes and shall be illustrated by a rich and comprehensive series of full colour slides, slide sheet and bibliography for further reading.

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