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Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Dürer in Renaissance Venice

12 Jun - 16 Jun 2023 | £395

This course will study Dürer’s life and work by exploring the wider relationship between German and Venetian art....

A vibrant harbour scene, showing a Venetian port filled with ships.

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Travelling Light: Turner, Constable and the Shape of British Art

5 Jun - 9 Jun 2023 | £395

This course will examine a fascinating aspect of British art history, the parallel careers of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, who revolutionised the status of landscape painting. ...

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Carlo Crivelli and his Contemporaries: An Alternative History of Italian Renaissance Painting

5 Jun - 9 Jun 2023 | £395

What makes Carlo Crivelli's work distinctive? This course takes a broad view of Crivelli’s oeuvre, examining his artistic origins, innovative responses to artists and patrons, and the physical qualities of his paintings. ...

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Pagans, Christians and the Art of Late Antiquity

5 Jun - 9 Jun 2023 | £395

This course discusses the arts of the Eastern and Western Mediterranean region from the years 313 to 565 CE, during which some of the most fascinating and perplexing works of art were created....

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

A Golden Age: Dutch and Spanish Art of the Seventeenth Century

29 May - 2 Jun 2023 | £395

Exploring these two artistic Golden Ages, this course shall carve out the historical and religious differences between Dutch and Spanish art of the period, represented by such figures as El Greco, Zurbarán and Velázquez, Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Ver...

The Virgin, holding the Christ Child and flanked by angels, stands in a church.

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Gothic Images: The Art of Magnificence, 1200-1500

29 May - 2 Jun 2023 | £395

Focusing primarily on England, France and the Low Countries, this course will explore the making of images in the Gothic period and the multitude of ideas which shaped that complex and collaborative process....

Painting depicting two female figures smoking cigarettes, facing each other

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Intimate tetherings: Xinyi Cheng and Alvin Li in conversation

6:00pm, 10 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

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

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Variations on a Theme: Modernism in Art and Music

11 Apr - 14 Apr 2023 | £195

An art historian and a musician join forces to shed light on the nature, complexities and challenges of ‘Modernism’ by exploring shared themes of ‘revolution’, subjectivity, abstraction, spontaneity and chance. ...

A bouquet of flowers half hidden behind a curtain.

Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses

Making Sense of Key Concepts of Western Art: 'Nature', 'Life' and Lifelikeness

17 Apr - 22 Apr 2023 | £195 or £245 with visit

The concept of ‘truth to nature’ lies at the heart of our understanding of Western art. Our course illuminates this important principle and its implications for the education of artists, for art making and for the depiction and understanding of the m...

A portrait of the artist Peter Doig in his studio

Public Programmes, Saturday Study Event, Short Courses

Saturday Study - Peter Doig: New and Recent Works - In Context

10:30am, 25 Mar 2023

Our next Saturday Study event takes place on 18 March and accompanies The Courtauld Gallery exhibition Peter Doig....

Photograph of a gallery containing classical sculptures overlaid with a series of vertical lines varying from red to blue.

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The museum environment in an era of sustainability

7:00pm, 30 Jan 2023 | Free, booking essential

Dr David Saunders, a leading conservation scientist with extensive experience working in large museums in the UK, will speak about the era of sustainability and its impact on the museum environment. ...