Henley DFAS

Forthcoming lectures

	Thursday 20th February 2020 Lecturer: Peter Medhurst The Secret Mozart Writing to his father on 28th December 1782, Mozart remarked of his latest batch of Piano Concerts – No. 11-14 – “[They] are just the medium between being too heavy and too light … here and there it is possible for the connoisseur alone to get satisfaction - but such – that the laymen can be contented without knowing why”. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 19th March 2020 Lecturer: Fenella Billington The Great Twelve Revisited: London's Senior Livery Companies Livery Companies originated when medieval merchants banded together to form guilds or fraternities. The guilds were probably in existence before the Norman Conquest and were to be found, not only in London, but in cities in other parts of the country and in cities in Europe. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	AGM Wednesday 1st April 2020 Lecturer: David Wright A Brief Story of Wine This should be very enjoyable! His lecture is full of rich evidence, going back 7,000 years, in the form of paintings, decorated drinking vessels, (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 16th April 2020 Lecturer: Jo Walton 'So! They do cook after all!' Ravilious, Bawden and the Great Bardfield Artists In 1932 the artist Edward Bawden and his wife Charlotte moved into Brick House in the Essex village of Great Bardfield, initially sharing the house with another artistic couple, Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 21st May 2020 Lecturer: Steven Desmond The Odd Couple: The Gardens of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll In the spring of 1889 the young Edwin Lutyens, later to become the most famous British architect of the 20^th century, met the artist-gardener-craftswoman Gertrude Jekyll for the first time at an afternoon tea party in rural Surrey. She was a well-known eccentric and a generation older than the young man. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 18th June 2020 Lecturer: Pamela Campbell-Johnston The Art of 1935 Through this lecture audiences are transported back to this fabulous time and learn about this pivotal year. From the Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V and Queen Mary; the work of the celebrated portrait photographer, Cecil Beaton; to magazine and poster design and the fashions of the time. (Please click on the blue priint above to continue reading)
	Thursday 17th September 2020 Lecturer: Shirley Smith Man the Measure of All Things: The rise of portraiture in Renaissance Italy We cannot imagine a world where the only faces we recognize are those with whom we have physically come into contact. Yet that was the situation in Medieval Europe when, with power vested in the Church, the glorification of man was frowned upon. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 15th October 2020 Lecturer: Matthew Williams Ghastly Good Taste: The Highs and Lows of British Interior Design 1880 - 1980 This lecture looks at the enormous changes in our homes over a hundred year period, encompassing aspects of household taste from Victorian clutter to the psychedelic ‘throw away’ furnishings of the 1970s. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 19th November 2020 Lecturer: Amy Orrock Bruegel's Winter Scenes One of the first artists to paint snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c1525-1569) is known today for wintery masterpieces, such as The Hunters in the Snow, The Census at Bethlehem and The Massacre of the Innocents. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)