
Evening Study at The Courtauld
Online
Short Courses offer an extensive evening study programme for all those who find it difficult to make time for art history during the working day, consisting of
Please find general information and responses to frequently asked questions about our programmes here.
Making Sense of Abstraction: Roots, Context and Meaning
Dr Emily Christensen
5 pre-recorded lectures with 5 live Zoom seminars over 5 weeks from Wednesday 13 September to Wednesday 11 October 2023, with an optional visit on Saturday 14 October 2023
£195 or £245 with visit
In spite of its perceived complexity and elitism, abstraction became one of the most dominant expressions of modern art. Ranging across early European manifestations in the work of artists like Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, to later permutations by American Abstract Expressionists and artists like Ibrahim El-Salahi, this course explores the nature, origins, meanings and reception of this fascinating mode of visual expression.
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Making Sense of
Ideas on Art:
A Course in Art Theory, c.1800-c. 2000
Dr Matthias Vollmer
5 pre-recorded lectures with 5 live Zoom seminars over 5 weeks from Wednesday 4 October to Wednesday 1 November 2023
£195
An in-depth look at some of the influential thinkers who have shaped art history, including Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Heinrich Wölfflin, Charles Sanders Pierce, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ernst Gombrich, David Freedberg, T.J. Clark, and Svetlana Alpers.
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Women Artists in France, 1770-1914
Evening Study Winter online 2023/24
Dr Lois Oliver
10 pre-recorded lectures with 5 live Zoom seminars over 5 weeks from Wednesday 1 November to Wednesday 29 November 2023, with an optional visit on Saturday 18 November 2023
£395 or £445 with visit
An opportunity to explore the achievements, professional obstacles and societal contexts of a range of extraordinary individuals, from Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard in the eighteenth century, to nineteenth-century painters Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt and Suzanne Valadon in the early twentieth century.
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Cultural Heritage in Conflict: The Legacy of Looted Art
Evening Study Winter online 2023/24
Alice Farren-Bradley
10 pre-recorded lectures with 5 live Zoom seminars over 5 weeks from Wednesday 10 January to Wednesday 7 February 2024
£395
Based on significant case studies from the ancient world to the modern day, this course explores the ideological motivations behind the targeting of cultural heritage as a weapon of war, charts the evolution of military cultural property protection, and considers the longstanding relationship between the plunder, collection and trade of cultural artefacts.
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Holbein at the Court of Henry VIII
Evening Study Winter online 2023/24
Dr Richard Williams
10 pre-recorded lectures with 5 live Zoom seminars over 5 weeks from Wednesday 10 January to Wednesday 7 February 2024, with an optional visit on Saturday 10 February 2024
N.B. Evening seminars for this course exceptionally take place at 19:00 [London time]
£395
This course examines the early career and cultural contexts of the pioneering German artist who redefined the image of kingship for Henry VIII and brilliantly captured the preeminent personalities of the volatile Tudor court.
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NEW The Long Road to Success: Giulio Romano between Rome and Mantua
Evening Study Winter online 2023/24
Dr Barbara Furlotti
5 pre-recorded lectures with 5 live Zoom seminars over 5 weeks from Thursday 11 January to Thursday 8 February 2024
£195
This investigation of the life and career of the fascinating Giulio Romano yields important insights into artistic life in Renaissance Italy and explores the fundamental topics of training, workshop practice, the building of a reputation and the complexity of relations with contemporary patrons.
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