In-person Course

Vienna and Paris are rarely brought into ‘conversation’ with each other. Yet the cross-currents between these two great cities around 1900 powered exciting, sometimes disturbing new visions in European art and thought which resonated throughout the twentieth century. We will examine the ways artists and other cultural figures – writers, musicians, and architects – shaped

Harry Mount, author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That and Odyssey - Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus, tells the history of the classical world from 1200 BC to 410 AD through London's buildings in five delightful walks.

This series of illustrated lectures surveys the collecting cultures of Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Italy by focusing on the artistic production and consumption of five powerful Italian dynasties and their artists.  Some of the original more portable works have been dispersed to the art market over the centuries and we will study the subsequent provenance of

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.

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