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SUMMARY:Northern Lights
DESCRIPTION:Today the Nordic countries are considered to be politically stable\, their populations among the happiest on the planet. This short course will highlight past conflicts and traumatic events\, and will follow their search for national identity among one sector of the population – their artists.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/northern-lights/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260611
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SUMMARY:The Painted Garden
DESCRIPTION:This course will explore the mutually enriching intersection between art and the garden. Often seen as works of art in and of themselves\, great gardens have always inspired and delighted those who make and appreciate them.  Crossing time periods and cultures\, we will explore some of the finest examples of actual gardens full of art and of art full of gardens. We will also consider why artists have for centuries chosen gardens and plants as subject matter for fine paintings and decorative art objects.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/the-painted-garden/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
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UID:9218-1776729600-1781049599@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:This Changing World: London’s Architecture in the Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:Twentieth-century London was characterised by profound change as the emergence of new superpower nations\, world wars\, and the end of empire caused profound shifts in the nation’s social\, economic and political status. Architects played a significant role in responding to these changes and stepped up to the challenge of transforming a Victorian city into a global city. Organised thematically\, this course will follow architects across the century and explore how they developed new building types and new architectural styles fit for a modern nation.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/this-changing-world-londons-architecture-in-the-twentieth-century/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260304
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241211T130605Z
UID:9187-1769472000-1772582399@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Edouard Manet: "The Father of Impressionism"
DESCRIPTION:In 1863\, a 31year old artist exhibited a masterpiece\, Luncheon on the Grass (Déjeuner sur l’Herbe) at the notorious Salon des Refusés in Paris. From that moment on\, Edouard Manet was as celebrated by younger artists\, the future Impressionists\, as he was deplored\, mocked and excluded by the art establishment. Rejecting a comfortable life of success\, Manet was to remain distinctive\, both courageously innovative and reflecting tradition and the work of predecessors from Frans Hals to Francisco Goya.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/edouard-manet-the-father-of-impressionism/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20241209T232955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T162252Z
UID:9207-1768435200-1772755199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Victorian And Edwardian London: Constructing A World City
DESCRIPTION:London of the Victorian and Edwardian period is all around us\, so much so that we scarcely register the scale of building\, and the ambition and inventiveness of the architecture of the period. The shops and pubs we use\, great swathes of housing\, as well as a number of new suburbs were developed during this time. The course will be thematically based\, but seek to highlight not only the social forces\, economic\, religious and political\, which drove the building of the city\, but also to show how architects sought new (and old) forms to express the status and excitement of the world’s greatest city.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/victorian-and-edwardian-london-constructing-a-world-city/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20241209T225203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250704T160029Z
UID:9196-1768348800-1772668799@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Staging The Performance – Painting the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Performance of all kinds – from opera and dance to the spoken-word and many other manifestations in between – has been a site of fascination for artists. With the advent of the ‘stage reform movement’ in the late-nineteenth century and the emergence of significant European empresarios\, the drive to make theatre anew became ever more intense. Capturing the essence of certain pivotal events\, we cross boundaries between the arts\, artists and their collaborators focusing on well-and lesser-known figures – including Schinkel (and indirectly Mozart)\, Wagner and his stage-craft legacy\, the mythical figure of Salome\, Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe; modernist performance at the Bauhaus\, and recent contribution of art museums to the performative.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/staging-the-performance-painting-the-stage/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20241209T220300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T153052Z
UID:9165-1761091200-1763596799@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:East-West Influences in the Arts of Vietnam\, Cambodia\, Japan & China
DESCRIPTION:This course will study the influences from East to West\, and West to East\, on the East Asian cultures of Cambodia and Vietnam\, Japan and China\, from Classical times to the Modern era.  China was the most influential culture in East Asia. Its influence is seen everywhere\, from the complex writing system to its elegant paintings\, ceramics\, literature and architecture\, and its role in society is equal to that of Greece and Rome in the Western world. \nWe will study the highest culture of the court in these specific countries\, as that determined the language\, culture and character of the nations that supported them\, giving each the particular expression of their arts\, religion and creative output. \nHow these influences were established\, and how they changed with the incoming Western traders that brought new ideas and arts to the traditional ways will be explored in depth.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/east-west-influences-in-the-arts-of-vietnam-cambodia-japan-china/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251128
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20241209T220016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T143849Z
UID:9174-1758758400-1764287999@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Beyond the Pomp!
DESCRIPTION:Portraits\, piety\, the classical world – it is the great celebratory themes which dominate our perception of the history of art\, but the artist’s familiar world\, both personal and social\, filters in around the edges\, creating vivid images of contemporary experience. Certain themes\, like feasting and friendship\, are constant over the centuries\, but we will also see medieval cock-fighting\, the street scenes of Rembrandt and Velasquez\, self-portraits\, domestic gardens in the 19th century and hamburgers in the 20th!
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/beyond-the-pomp/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251009
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20241209T213344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T213728Z
UID:9159-1758672000-1759967999@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Point And Counterpoint in Music and Art
DESCRIPTION:Over the centuries\, composers and painters have often drawn inspiration from the same subject matter – a crow on a dead branch\, a lonely traveller\, a man contemplating the moon\, are common themes\, for example\, in both the songs of Franz Schubert and the canvases of Caspar David Friedrich.  However\, the worlds of music and paintings link very powerfully when one medium directly inspires the other.  This study day series\, which spans over 600 years of the arts\, analyses and discusses a range of key works in this field\, bringing together the music of Martinu with the frescoes of Piero della Francesca\, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with the paintings of Viktor Hartmann\, Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninoff’s symphonic poem of the same name\, and Schwind’s Symphony with the music of Beethoven.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/point-and-counterpoint-in-music-and-art/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251126
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20241209T212034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T212034Z
UID:9146-1758585600-1764115199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Celebrating 200 Years of The Nation’s Mantelpiece
DESCRIPTION:Ever since its inception two-hundred years ago\, the National Gallery has been open to the public free of charge. Starting with a small collection\, it has grown to just over 2\,500 paintings including some of the greatest masterpieces in Western European art.  Each week\, this gallery-based course will tell the story of the National Gallery through its art\, taking you across its permanent collection\, delving into the lives and stories of individual works and the artists that created them. Each session will look at approximately eight pictures in detail. Leslie will look forward to escorting you around an institution that is so loved by the British public it has become a home from home\, a place of refuge\, the Nation’s mantlepiece.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/celebrating-200-years-of-the-nations-mantelpiece/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250619
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231129T165907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T181603Z
UID:8724-1745971200-1750291199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Couples\, Collaborators\, Colleagues: Artists and Their 'Others'
DESCRIPTION:The concept of the solitary male genius has been a dominant theme of Western art histories. Wives\, mistresses\, partners and collaborators have often been chased into the shadows\, even if they too were practicing artists in their own right.  We will explore the complexities of some of these notable artistic relationships\, with an emphasis on the often lesser-known\, or less-celebrated figure. Through these fascinating cameos\, significant aspects of late nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American art and culture traversing painting\, sculpture\, textiles\, theatre design and other media are brought into sharp relief.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/couples-collaborators-colleagues-artists-and-their-others/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250702
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231128T110951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T181920Z
UID:8708-1745884800-1751414399@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Exploring the London House
DESCRIPTION:Most of London’s housing stock now dates from no earlier than the beginning of the eighteenth century. The forms that its dwellings have taken since the time of the Great Fire of London have changed dramatically in response to changing needs\, an expanding population\, forces of development and legislation.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/exploring-the-london-house/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231127T133927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T144332Z
UID:8686-1739923200-1742428799@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Glittering Prizes
DESCRIPTION:A look at some great strivers of the late 18th and l9th centuries and their relationship with fame. Mary Robinson enjoys it; Fanny Mendelssohn hankers after it; Benjamin Robert Haydon perishes for lack of it; Edwin Landseer basks in it and overdoes it; Florence Nightingale utterly rejects it.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/the-glittering-prizes/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250321
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231126T142524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231127T144104Z
UID:8695-1736985600-1742515199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Who Paid for The Renaissance?
DESCRIPTION:Money may make the world go round\, but it is also crucial to the development of the arts. The Renaissance across Europe was financed by Church\, commerce and conquest\, and fuelled not only by connoisseurship but by the need for calculated propaganda. This course examines the diversity of a formative age and asks how and why it took the forms it did.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/who-paid-for-the-renaissance/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250213
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231124T155937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231127T165455Z
UID:8677-1736899200-1739404799@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Sounding The Now: Great Classical Music and Visual Art (1975-2025)
DESCRIPTION:The last 50 years have produced some of the most exciting and powerful music\, painting and sculpture in history\, but to many people it remains an undiscovered world. This course aims to introduce participants to some of this era’s major composers including Arvo Pärt\, James MacMillan\, Brett Dean\, Sofia Gubaidulina\, Jörg Widmann and John Adams\, alongside artists such as Agnes Martin\, Gerhard Richter\, Bill Viola\, Joan Mitchell and Jenny Saville.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/sounding-the-now-great-classical-music-and-visual-art-1975-2025/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250226
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231123T185910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T154156Z
UID:8666-1736812800-1740527999@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Unity And Diversity: Art Metropolises of Europe
DESCRIPTION:Europe is at a turning point in its history. Questions about its unity and diversity are more relevant today than ever. This series of talks will address the concept of Europe through a number of its most characteristic and idiosyncratic cities. It will discuss the evolution of their ground plans as well as the stories of their inhabitants and visitors\, and it will explore their architectural and artistic heritages.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/unity-and-diversity-art-metropolises-of-europe/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241122
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231123T160659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231124T111238Z
UID:8657-1729123200-1732233599@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Let There Be Light!
DESCRIPTION:Light illuminates\, it moulds\, it defines our mood – and\, in art\, its effects are determined by the artist’s tools. From gold leaf to photography\, oil paint to the Louvre pyramids\, each week we range across centuries and styles to understand both how light can be captured and the changing messages it carries\, whether of divine symbolism\, naturalism in landscape or intense emotion.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/let-there-be-light/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241011
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231123T155518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231123T160151Z
UID:8651-1727308800-1728604799@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Music in Art & Art in Music
DESCRIPTION:This series of study days will examine the relationship between music and painting during three contrasting eras: Dutch Baroque 1600-1700\, English Classicism 1750-1810\, and Romanticism\, Impressionism and Expressionism 1800-1920.  The first day discusses symbolism in the musical paintings of the Dutch masters who painted the mercantile classes making music.  Day 2 examines the wide range of composers and musicians featured in the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough and Johan Zoffany. The last day focuses on the ability of music to inspire art and art to inspire music.  This covers a period of 100 years from the start of the 19th century and covers the works of Chopin\, James Whistler\, Arnold Böcklin\, Arnold Schoenberg and Rachmaninov.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/music-in-art-art-in-music/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241031
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231104T124454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231124T111033Z
UID:7771-1727222400-1730332799@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Landscapes in Art
DESCRIPTION:From JMW Turner and John Constable\, to Chinese Masterpieces\, Japanese Prints\,  Hokusai’s Mount Fuji\, and Cézanne’s Mont Saint Victoire\,  artists have strived to capture landscape in all its beauty and nature for centuries.  Landscape vistas can be recreated in private gardens and parkland estates\, as with Chinese gardens of the 8thC\, Capability Brown in the 18thC\, and even rooftop gardens of the 20thC. There are many ways of bringing landscapes into one’s personal environment\, from paintings and prints\, to textiles\, wallpapers\, furnishings and potted plants\, we can create an “outdoors” indoors\, and feel that we have a connection to nature in some form.  With the growing awareness of the need for mental health support in all areas of society\, it is becoming a recognised fact that gardens\, plants\, landscapes and natural environments are a necessary aid to promote our mental and physical health.  We will explore the meaning of Landscape in Art\, and how we\, the viewer\, respond to certain combinations of natural elements\, and how we use those elements in our daily lives to promote harmony and tranquility in our homes and environments.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/landscapes-in-art/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241127
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20231103T151616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231124T111147Z
UID:8638-1727136000-1732665599@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Raphael - Life\, Legacy\, And Legend (1483 – 1520) From Urbino to Rome
DESCRIPTION:This course will explore an artist who is still seen as the epitome of the ideals that aligned themselves with the term Renaissance. We will chart the rise of Raphael beginning before his birth with the work of his father Giovanni Santi to the introduction of Raphael into the Santi studio. We will discuss his early works and influence looking at contemporaries such as Perugino and the part they may have played in those formative years. Raphael’s obsession with drawing and the integral part it played in his invention\, design and printed works will also be explored but the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and Raphael’s part cannot be told without refence to Michelangelo and Leonardo and the competition that ensued between these great Renaissance masters. We will look at the triumph of the Vatican frescoes\, the patronage of the popes\, the acrimonious battle between Raphael and Michelangelo\, Raphael’s final years and the legacy of his life and works.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/raphael-life-legacy-and-legend-1483-1520-from-urbino-to-rome/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240614
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20230830T140251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T113718Z
UID:8561-1714003200-1718323199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Spanish avant-garde: Madrid\, Barcelona\, Paris
DESCRIPTION:Late nineteenth-century Spain was in a state of flux\, characterised by competing aesthetic ideas between tradition and the modern\, religion and the secular\, passionately-felt regional and national identities. Nowhere was this more strongly articulated than through Catalan modernisme (modernism)\, a cultural movement centred on Barcelona.  We will examine these various seminal influences focussing on the early artistic endeavours of four key figures – artists Pablo Picasso\, Juan Miró\, Salvador Dalí\, and the architect Antonio Gaudí – and their collaborations with other significant cultural figures\, in our search for ‘duende’\, an elusive term signifying the essence and soul of Spain.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/the-spanish-avant-garde-madrid-barcelona-paris/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240627
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20230106T142409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T090751Z
UID:7794-1713916800-1719446399@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Iconic Interiors
DESCRIPTION:This course will explore the design and decoration of some of the most influential and fascinating domestic interiors in Western culture\, highlighting both mainstream movements as well as interesting idiosyncratic styles of note. We will focus on the architecture as well as the fine and decorative arts\, with painting\, furniture\, ceramics\, glass and other works of art all playing a part in this fascinating story. Stylistic innovations\, visual trends and iconic objects will be considered within the socio-economic and cultural context of the time in which these iconic interiors were conceived and created.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/iconic-interiors/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240626
DTSTAMP:20260628T220519
CREATED:20230106T141817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230706T150602Z
UID:7790-1713830400-1719359999@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:London’s Villages and the Growth of the City
DESCRIPTION:London is a collection of villages – to a degree greater than any other world city. Medieval villages expanded\, particularly in the Georgian and Victorian periods. And\, as the fields between those villages were built on\, the capital coalesced into one huge conurbation. But\, still\, within those villages\, you can see their distinctive old heart\, wrapped around the village church\, with rings of development around them.  It is in learning about the villages that you work out how different parts of London grew up at different times and you get a bird’s eye view of the mushrooming of the city. There will be a walk around each village\, explaining its origin and how it was subsumed into the greater London whole.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/londons-villages-and-the-growth-of-the-city/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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UID:7787-1706745600-1709855999@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Cameos
DESCRIPTION:Certain subjects exert a sustained fascination for the artist\, others rise from nothing in response to a particular mood\, a particular time – landscape\, still-life\, war…… Each week this course will examine a different theme and the changing way it has been perceived and presented through the ages\, moving in to focus on a specific work/case study.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/cameos/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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UID:7784-1704844800-1710374399@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Art’s Hall of Mirrors: How Poems Succeed in Making Paintings and Sculptures Speak in English
DESCRIPTION:The ability that paintings\, like music\, have to leave you speechless is surely the whole point: art needs no words to fire the mind\, quicken the body and touch the heart. And then we say of a painting that it really speaks to us. No wonder poets want to speak back\, make art’s hidden voice visible in words\, translate a picture so that we can hear it in our human language. Art’s Hall of Mirrors lines up images of great and even famous art to face the best ekphrastic poems as poets word them.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/arts-hall-of-mirrors-how-poems-succeed-in-making-paintings-and-sculptures-speak-in-english/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240228
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UID:7781-1704758400-1709078399@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Art and Music
DESCRIPTION:Music is not only for the ears. Throughout the history of art\, musicians have been represented at play. The concept of musical harmony has also pervaded architecture since its origins. And music also influenced the development of colour theory\, proportion and abstraction in art – not to mention the exquisite designs of musical instruments. This series will examine the evolving relationship between music and visual culture.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/art-and-music/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231207
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UID:7777-1699401600-1701907199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:Designs for Living
DESCRIPTION:The ideal city or home has long been a preoccupation of thinkers\, rulers\, and architects. These lectures\, mostly focused on western examples\, range widely over time\, and are loosely themed to discuss particular visions of models for dwelling\, working and display. We will discuss both those which were built (or at least attempted) and schemes which never got further than the drawing board. In many of these instances Rome features heavily as it has in the architectural imagination of Europe since antiquity.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/designs-for-living/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231102
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T143902Z
UID:8301-1696982400-1698883199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Spider’s Web
DESCRIPTION:“Fiction is like a spider’s web\, attached ever so slightly perhaps\, but still attached to life at all four corners” Virginia Woolf \nAll the writers in this short series draw inspiration and support from those closest to them. Where would Jane Austen have been without the support of her sister Cassandra\, or Virginia Woolf without the stimulus of Vanessa Bell? Burney\, Austen and Woolf are fortunate in their sisters. With no close siblings\, for a good twenty years Johnson and Thrale find reliable inspiration and entertainment in each other. For each of these writers it is true that\, in the famous words of John Donne\, no man is an island.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/the-spiders-web/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231117
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CREATED:20230106T134712Z
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UID:7774-1695859200-1700179199@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:The English Renaissance: England under the Tudors
DESCRIPTION:In just 3 generations\, the upstart Tudor clan not only produced some of the more dramatic personalities and legends of the monarchy but took the country from the Middle Ages into the great artistic “rebirth” of the Continent\, from stained glass and manuscripts for Henry VII to Renaissance portraits for his son and grandchildren\, from militaristic fortresses to sumptuous architectural stage sets for the choreography of display. In an age of intense religious conflict\, church commissions were followed by the destruction of monasteries and their heritage and as successive rulers imposed their allegiances on the people\, the arts trumpeted their chosen Faiths. For the monarchy\, paintings by Holbein\, Horenbout and Hilliard and palaces to overawe European rivals transmitted the Tudor message and became prestige models which transformed the face of England.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/the-english-renaissance-england-under-the-tudors/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231206
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CREATED:20230106T121758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T134547Z
UID:7756-1695686400-1701820799@thecoursestudies.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Low Countries: Creativity\, Invention & Inspiration (Netherlandish\, Flemish and Dutch Art)
DESCRIPTION:This course will bring together the Golden Age of Dutch\, Flemish and early to late Netherlandish Art. We will examine their changing face from the 14th to 16th century and how and why the meaning and function evolved and why artists were drawn to particular subject matters.
URL:https://thecoursestudies.co.uk/course/the-low-countries-creativity-invention-inspiration-netherlandish-flemish-and-dutch-art/
CATEGORIES:In-person Course
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