2019
STUDY DAY / DAY OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Monday 1st April 2019
Design, Invention, Creation: The Multiple Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci
A study day in three one hour parts: Exploring the life, work, interests and legacy of a Renaissance icon. Speculations regarding the true life and meanings of Leonardo’s works have been rife for centuries; culminating in recent times with books such as the Da Vinci Code
Leslie Primo
AREA STUDY DAYS
Foreigners in London 1520-1677
The Artists that Changed the Course of British Art
With Leslie Primo
WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2018
Little Baddow Memorial Hall, Little Baddow, Chelmsford CM3 4TA
Cost £22 per person
Why were foreigner painters preferred by the aristocracy in London to native-born English painters, why did foreigners come in the first place, what was their motivation, and what was the impact of foreigners in London on English art and art practise? The lectures will look at the various formats and uses of art, tracing foreign artists from the Tudor period through to the Renaissance and Baroque, looking at their origins and how they came to work in England. Leslie Primo will examine the contributions of artists such as Holbein, Gerrit van Honthorst, Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Lucas and Susanna Horenbout, Isaac Oliver, Paulus van Somer, van Dyck, Peter Lely, and Rubens, how these artists influenced the British School of painting, and assess their legacy.