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CLASSICISM IN VICTORIAN PAINTING TALK 1
October 17 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
In-person talk takes place in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom
Tickets are £10. Booking is essential
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With artist & art historian Martin Beek
The first of two talks on Victorian Painters looks at the Olympian artists of the Royal Academy and their explorations of the classical mythology of beauty.
The paintings of Frederic Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward Poynter not only absorb exciting archaeological discoveries, but they also act as a cipher or mirror of late Victorian society.
Acme and Septimius, Frederic Leighton, 1858, circular oil painting
Many artists closely used classical mythological sources; others, such as Albert Moore and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, used the mythic past in their own explorations of ideal beauty.
This is the first talk in this series of two. Each talk needs to be booked separately.
This talk is part of our Love & Legacy season of events.
BOOKING
The in-person talk is in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.
Tickets are £10. Booking is essential.
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