Thu 26 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Gallery, Persian and Islamic Arts, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Symposium – Precious and Rare: Islamic Met...

  This symposium will explore curatorial, practical and public engagement aspects of The Courtauld’s touring display of Islamic metalwork to four venues in the UK. Beginning with a keynote lecture uncovering the historic importance of the works on display, the rest of the talks will reflect on the opportunities and…

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Mon 6 Nov, 2017 Gallery, Research Forum, Research Seminars

The Idyllists: their Art and their Legacy

The recent publication of ‘Frederick Walker and the Idyllists’ seeks to reposition this once important group of artists working in the second half of nineteenth-century London. Centred on the figure of the painter and watercolourist Frederick Walker (1840-1875), these artists enjoyed a certain celebrity status during their lifetimes. Together with Walker…

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Tue 3 May, 2016 Gallery

Rodin’s Gates of Hell: from Dante to Baudelaire

This paper discusses the literary sources of Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell and in particular the artist’s highly personal interpretation of Dante’s Inferno. The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition of Botticelli’s drawings after Dante’s Divine Comedy provides an ideal framework for presenting current research into Rodin’s use of Dante in the making of his monumental Gates of Hell. Rodin’s Gates are the…

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