Class details
Join Nick Pearson on 15 June for a new series of art history lectures covering the Story of Western Art. This is your opportunity to learn enough about Western Art to knowledgeably wander round, recognise and understand the work of the world’s great art museums and modern collections.
Mondays
10am – 12pm
Starts 15 June
Fee : £12 per session
Notes only : £5 per set
Topics we cover
15 June
Middle Ages to International Gothic
Including Manuscript illumination (pictured); Byzantine art; from late Gothic to the dawn of the Renaissance; Martini and Memmi
22 June
Late Gothic to Early Renaissance
Including: Verrocchio (pictured) Donatello; the influence of the Low Countries; Brunelleschi and perspective
29 June
More on the Early Renaissance
Including: van der Weyden; van der Goes; Piero della Francesca (pictured); Mantegna
6 July
High Renaissance Rome, Leonardo and Michelangelo
Including: Leonardo (pictured); Michelangelo
13 July
Venice, Raphael and more Michelangelo
Including: Bellini; Titian; Raphael and Michelangelo’s Last Judgement
20 July
Northern Renaissance
Including: Holbein (pictured); Dürer; Bosch and Bruegel the Elder
Support notes are included
After each lecture Nick will send you a copy of his comprehensive, illustrated notes via email.
Not able to make the lecture but still want the notes? For a fee of £5 we can email you a copy of the notes.
We look forward to seeing you at this series of art history lectures by Nick Pearson.
