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29 March 2017

Erskine May Hall

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Gilbert Lloyd Lecture: Venice – City of Pictures by Martin Gayford

Erskine May Hall

A history of Venice through its most important creation: pictures. In this elegant volume, Martin Gayford takes us on a visual journey through the history of the city known as ‘La Serenissima’, the ‘Most Serene’. But this is not a conventional chronicle of battles, rulers, sieges, and revolutions – though such events sometimes come into […]

Gilbert Lloyd Art Lecture: ‘In every hedge and hollow tree’: Thomas Gainsborough, rootstock of Turner and Constable –Dr James Hamilton

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In this illustrated lecture Dr James Hamilton will express how Thomas Gainsborough's romantic evocations of Suffolk countryside in the eighteenth century gave inspiration and direction to the questing and interrogative landscape paintings of Turner and Constable in the nineteenth. For James Hamilton, who went to university to read Mechanical Engineering but emerged in 1971 with […]

Gilbert Lloyd Art Lecture: ‘Christopher Wren: The Quest for Knowledge’ by Simon Carter

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It is 300 years since the death of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) the revolutionary scientist, mathematician and architect who was responsible for building the St Paul’s Cathedral.  This talk explores the life and work of one of Britain’s most accomplished polymaths - and the crises and opportunities which enabled his genius to flourish.  Illustrated with […]