Locations - Online

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

The Long Road to Success: Giulio Romano between Rome and Mantua

11 January to 8 February 2024 | £195

By delving into the private and professional life of Giulio Romano, this course will investigate the many obstacles that one had to overcome to become a successful artist in the very competitive arena of Renaissance Italy, from the often harsh traini...

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Holbein at the Court of Henry VIII

10 January to 7 February, with optional visit on 10 February 2024 | £395 or £445 with visit

This course will consider Holbein’s development as a pioneering German artist who engaged with new cultural influences of the Renaissance. This flourishing artistic culture will be set against the backdrop of revolutionary political change and violen...

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Cultural Heritage in Conflict: The Legacy of Looted Art

10 January - 7 February | £395

This course investigates the treatment of cultural heritage during periods of armed conflict from the ancient world to the modern day, in order to critically examine how warfare has shaped an international understanding of cultural property....

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Women Artists in France, 1770-1914

1 November - 29 November, optional visit on 18 November | £395 or £445 with visit

Women artists in France created rich oeuvres, despite professional obstacles and prejudice from art critics and dealers who regarded genius as a male attribute. This course offers the opportunity to explore the achievements of these extraordinary ind...

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

From Life: Representing Nature in Northern European Art, 1500-1750

12 October - 9 November, optional visit on 11 November | £395 or £445 with visit

This course explores the empirical, political and symbolic meanings conveyed by early modern images of nature. Why were lifelike depictions of nature so highly valued? How did artists convey the impression that their works were truthful, reliable or ...

Research

Avant et après: Gauguin’s Final Words

Friday 23rd June, 8.45am - 1.00pm BST and Saturday 24th June, 12.55pm - 5.45pm BST | Free, booking essential

Funded by The Getty Foundation’s “Paper Project”, this online-conference brings together scholars from all over the world to give a wide-ranging selection of papers focusing on Paul Gauguin's Avant et après, one of the most significant artists manusc...

Research

Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia

9:00am, 5 May 2023 | Free, booking essential

The conference seeks to highlight the diversity and sophistication of fashion practices within or relating to Southeast Asia, and contributes to efforts to decentralise fashion studies....

Schools and Colleges, Young People

Careers in the Arts on World Art Day

1:00pm, 15 Apr 2023

Online, Public Programmes, Saturday Study Event, Short Courses

Saturday Study: Drawing on Arabian Nights – Orientalism in Context

10:30am, 29 Apr 2023

This Saturday Study event will provide an opportunity to delve deeper into the ideas raised in The Courtauld Gallery exhibition Drawing on Arabian Nights (22 February – 3 June 2023)....

Research

Gravity is the momentum of feeling: Xin Liu and Joni Zhu in conversation

6:30pm, 9 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us in person or online for the second lecture in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series. ...

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Russian Art 1863-1932: Innovations, Influences and the Roots of Modernity

12 Jun - 16 Jun 2023 | £395

This course examines Russian art from the artists' rebellion in 1863, the blossoming of arts in the ‘Silver Age’, to the upsurge of avant-garde art and its disappearance after 1932, when Socialist Realism became the only style permitted in the Soviet...

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

The Fear and the Fury: Abstract Expressionism

12 Jun - 16 Jun 2023 | £395

Our course will arrive at fresh perspectives on this important movement in American art. We shall look at artists' careers and examine Abstract Expressionism in relation to philosophy, art criticism, exhibition history, and Cold War politics....