Henley DFAS

Forthcoming lectures

	Thursday 19th September 2024 10.45am and 2.15pm Lecturer: Jane Angelini The Glories of Byzantium The importance of the role played by Byzantium as a link in the great chain of world history is an important theme. With its roots firmly in the Ancient World of Greece and Rome the Byzantine period – AD 330 -1453 – spans the medieval centuries. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 17th October 2024 10.45am and 2.15pm. Simultaneous transmission a.m. only Lecturer: Emily Chappell ‘I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth’ (Rev 21) : The Gothic Cathedral as the Heavenly Jerusalem This lecture will consider the aims and motivations of the master masons who built the great Gothic cathedrals of England and France. We will study several key buildings: their architecture and stained glass, the influence of liturgical practice and religious symbolism on their layout and the importance of light and colour in their interiors. We will look at the technical challenges and how these were overcome by an extraordinary determination to build Heavenly Jerusalem on earth. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 21st November 2024 (post AGM) at 10.30am only. Please note earlier time. Simultaneous transmission. Lecturer: Dr Caroline Levisse The Invention of Photography and its Impact on Early Modern Painting Invented at the end of the 1830s, photography triggered a visual revolution. At the time, some feared that photography would replace painting altogether. It certainly did not but painting was not left untouched either. Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1873 - Gustave Le Gray, The Brig, 1856 In this lecture we will consider how photography participated in changing the face of painting in the second half of the 19^th century. It introduced a new relationship between reality and its representation that influenced painters such as the Realists and the Impressionists. It also encouraged painters to explore new directions. Freed from having to record the external world, painters could focus on more intangible things (such as emotions) or on formal aspects (such as colour for its own sake). (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	Thursday 12th December 2024 10.45am and 2.15pm. Simultaneous transmission a.m. only Lecturer: Sarah Ciacci The Christmas Story in Art In this talk we will look at works of art that depict episodes from the story of Christmas. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)