Newsletter February 2023 Live Lectures for February Barcelona: Catalonian Modernisme I am all too often asked when Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, often mistaken for the city’s cathedral, will be finished. Hopefully in 1926 to celebrate the centenary of his death. Everything about Gaudi is larger than life including his death. Knocked down by a tram, theContinue reading “Art History with Anne”
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Newsletter January 2023 In the Art world, there is plenty to look forward to in 2023! Two centenary’s that have caught my eye are Sorolla, ‘Spain’s master of light’ and the ‘Divine Sarah’, the greatest tragic actress of her age. Both died in 1923. Both centenaries will be marked with exhibitions in Madrid, Valencia andContinue reading “Art History with Anne”
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December Newsletter A Christmas Lecture Peter Pan: It’s Behind You! Is Peter Pan a pantomime? Well, if you want to adhere strictly to the Victorian rules, probably not. But as the ‘fairy play’ was first performed on 27 December 1904, Peter Pan or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up has inevitably been thought of asContinue reading “Art History with Anne”
Anne’s Pocket Guide to Helsinki Jugend Suomessa
A Walk-through Helsinki’s Jugendstil districts When thinking about Baltic Art Nouveau, the grandiose buildings of Riga usually spring to mind. However, Helsinki boasts over 500 ‘National Romantic’ and ‘Jugend’ buildings from the turn of the 20th century. The German term ‘Jugendstil’ or ‘Youth style’ has been adopted, taken from the avant-garde magazine Jugend published fromContinue reading “Anne’s Pocket Guide to Helsinki Jugend Suomessa“
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Lectures for November Finlandia: Jugendstil to Modernism in the far North Like many visitors my first glimpse of Helsinki was from the sea, sailing into the port while enjoying a Baltic cruise. Standing out on the horizon are the white silhouette of the Lutheran Cathedral, built as a tribute to the Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar Nicholas IContinue reading “Art History with Anne“
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The Wilde Years: 1870-1900 A series of three lectures added to the archive library of lectures On 21st August 2022 academics and enthusiasts, including myself, gathered to wish Aubrey Beardsley Happy Birthday. Celebrating 150 years since his birth, it is sad to recall that Beardsley died aged only twenty-five from tuberculosis. Yet he seemed toContinue reading “Art History with Anne“
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Aubrey Beardsley 150: The Artist Resurgent, a conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Aubrey Beardsley’s birth. Saturday 21st August 2022 from 10am I will be giving a paper as this conference: Beardsley’s Punch Line: the collected works of ‘Weirdsley Daubery’ At first glance the reader can be taken in by Punch’s Beardsley parodic cartoons,Continue reading “Art History with Anne”
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Newsletter August 2022 The Live Lecture for August Arte Nova and Art Deco in Porto and Aveiro, Portugal To be given on Friday 26th August 2022 at 11.00 am and repeated at 7.00 pm Like many countries enjoying great prosperity at the end of the 19th century, Portuguese architects and designers developed their own variantContinue reading “Art History with Anne”
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July 2022 Summer’s Here ! Time for Tennis Well, Summer has finally arrived and, in between the showers, tennis. If you have been watching this year’s games at Wimbledon or perhaps the qualifying tournaments that start the whole season’s sporting jamboree going, then you may have been aware of the great variety of women’s tennis costumes,Continue reading “Art History with Anne”
Anne’s Pocket Guide to…. Oscar Wilde’s London
Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, Chelsea, an Arts and Crafts masterpiece Amidst the bustle of Sloane Square and the King’s Road, Holy Trinity offers an oasis of calm. It is also one of the most beautiful churches in England. One looks up in awe at the magnificent east window, the largest stained-glass window produced byContinue reading “Anne’s Pocket Guide to…. Oscar Wilde’s London”
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