The Courtauld is opening its doors on Tuesday evenings at 7pm for the second series of a lecture course designed to share with you the wealth of our expertise.

Showcasing Art History is a series of twenty-five lectures over three terms. You are welcome to come for all three terms, for a combination of any two terms or for just one term.


Autumn term 2008

The Sacred from Antiquity to the Renaissance

All lectures start at 7pm in the Kenneth Clark lecture theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art. Each lecture lasts for one hour and is followed by a drinks reception.


7 October 2008 Prof. Robin Cormack
The Sacred at the Acropolis at Athens and St Catherine's Monastery at Sinai


14 October 2008 Dr. Antony Eastmond

Jerusalem: Sacred Space and the Holy City


 21 October 2008 Dr. Peter Stewart

Cult Images in the Roman Empire


28 October 2008 Dr. Rose Walker

Locating the Sacred in Roman and Christian Iberia


4 November 2008 Dr. Richard Williams

Sacred Space in Reformation Europe


11 November 2008 Dr. Catherine Yvard

Prayers for Princes and Merchants: Books of Hours and their Owners in the late Middle Ages


18 November 2008 Dr. Laura Jacobus

Encountering the Sacred in Giotto's Arena Chapel, Padua


 25 November 2008 Dr. Janet Robson

The Saint, the Pope, the Friar and the Pilgrim: expectation and experience of the sacred in the Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi


2 December 2008 Dr. Michael Douglas-Scott

The Development of the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice


 9 December 2008 Prof. Robin Cormack

El Greco at Crete, Venice and Toledo: the Transformation of the Sacred Image


sPring term 2009

 Artists and Patrons: the structures of the art world from the middle ages to the early twentieth century

All lectures start at 7pm in the Kenneth Clark lecture theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art. Each lecture lasts for one hour and is followed by a drinks reception.


13 January 2009  Prof. Paul Crossley

The Medieval Architect: Mason or Magus?


20 January 2009 Dr. Georgia Clarke

Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino – Renaissance Prince and Patron


27 January 2009 Dr. Susie Nash

Claus Sluter, Jean Malouel, Philip the Bold and the Carthusians: Artists, Patrons and Audiences at the Chartreuse de Champmol

3 February 2009 Dr. Joanna Woodall

Anthonis Mor: Friends at Court. The Patron and his Painter


10 February 2009 Dr. Piola Massarotto

The Venetian governors in sixteenth-century Padua: artistic patronage between self-aggrandisement and raison d'etat


17 February 2009 Dr. Sally Korman

Giorgio Vasari: The Living Image and the Life as Art


24 February 2009 Dr. Sheila McTighe

The Court and the Marketplace.  Artists at the Louvre and Versailles, 1648-1670


3 March 2009 Dr. Claire O’Mahony  

Seduction and Selection: Marketing Art and Design in fin-de-siècle France


10 March 2009 Dr. Anne Puetz

Temple of the Muses or Vanity Fair? The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, their Audiences and the Production of ‘High Art’ in Britain 1780-1836


17 March 2009 Dr. Charles Miller

The Picasso Mythology



summer term 2009

Dressed and Undressed: The Human Body in Art

All lectures start at 7pm in the Kenneth Clark lecture theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art. Each lecture lasts for one hour and is followed by a drinks reception.


21 April 2009 Prof. Aileen Ribeiro

Naked and Profane. Women, Dress and Morality


28 April 2009 Caroline Brooke

Renaissance Bodies       


5 May 2009 Dr. Kate Retford

‘Habits and Dress of the Times’: The Social Body and the Eighteenth-Century British Conversation Piece


12 May 2009 Dr. Martin Myrone and Dr. Elizabeth Eger

Eighteenth-Century Flesh: The Real and the Ideal


19 May 2009 Dr. Catherine Grant

Re-working the nude in contemporary photography


Booking

Booking Form (Word Version)

We are unfortunately not able to take bookings online, but you may if you wish send this form by email. In order to avoid emailing confidential information we recommend that you email it without credit/debit card details to: short.courses@courtauld.ac.uk; and then telephone 44 (0) 20 7848 2678 to give the relevant details.

The form can, of course, be completed and returned by post or fax (see form for postal address and fax number).


Short Courses,
Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House
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London, WC2R 0RN,

or fax to 44 (0) 20 7848 2589


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