Programme
Season 2021/22
To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, born in December 1770,
Sandy Burnett guides us through the life and work of this...
Jewellery and Fashion are often seen as two entirely separate and distinct fields of design, but this is very far from the case. In his talk, Andrew...
Not only was Peggy Guggenheim ahead of her time but she was the woman who helped define it. She discovered and nurtured a new generation of artists...
Whereas nowadays Dutch winters tend to be rather mild, in the 17th century there were lengthy periods of frost. Unfortunately, old-fashioned Dutch...
Like the Renaissance artists he admired, Salvador Dalí did not restrict his creative output to painting but was also a writer, poet, engraver,...
Many people now carry a phone with a camera capable of taking very high-quality pictures, and yet the painting of botanical specimens persists with...
Nicola Moorby is an independent art historian specialising in British art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She studied at the...
Luxury for the rich created by the effort of millions. Each year in the 1600s and 1700s millions of pieces - services, vases and ornamental wares -...