Live Lectures for January- February 2024 Paris Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism The spotlight falls on Paris in 2024 with the Olympics imminent. This is far from the first time that Paris has been the centre of attention. Taking on the staging of the International Exhibitions, pioneered in London in 1851, Paris built itsContinue reading “Art History with Anne”
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Newsletter June 2023 Throughout May I was kept very busy with Travel Editions tours to Normandy and Lille/Antwerp. Monet and Impressionists in Normandy, which has been running very successfully for many years, includes a full day in Giverny to visit Monet’s famous house and garden, the Museum of Impressionism and Monet’s final resting place. EarlyContinue reading “Art History with Anne”
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Newsletter February 2023 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, the shabbilyContinue 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”
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May 2022 May was a busy month for us! The lectures in the series Modern Art comes to Scotland: From the Glasgow Boys to the Scottish Colourists proved very popular with attendees and the recorded versions of these lectures, available to live-lectures subscribers, attracted a good number of views. When we were not broadcasting, members of theContinue reading “Art History with Anne”
Art History with Anne Lectures November and December Reminder
What would you like for Christmas? It’s that time of the year when we start to think about Christmas. I expect we have all dreamt of the ultimate present, a Tiffany diamond bracelet, a Rene Lalique Art Nouveau jewel, or a Faberge trinket (as above!). While such baubles are beyond my modest pocket, I haveContinue reading “Art History with Anne Lectures November and December Reminder”
Art History with Anne Lectures for November/December
What would you like for Christmas? It’s that time of the year when we start to think about Christmas. I expect we have all dreamt of the ultimate present, a Tiffany diamond bracelet, a Rene Lalique Art Nouveau jewel, or a Faberge trinket (as above!). While such baubles are beyond my modest pocket, I haveContinue reading “Art History with Anne Lectures for November/December”
Art History with Anne Lectures for October: Partners in Art
Partners in Art: l’École de Nancy At end of October, I would normally be boarding the Eurostar for Paris, my ultimate destination being Nancy, the cultural capital of Lorraine. Scott and I ‘discovered’ this beautiful city in 1983, the year it acquired its UNESCO status. I instantly fell in love with the Place Stanislas, the spectacularContinue reading “Art History with Anne Lectures for October: Partners in Art”
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l’École de Nancy, which endeavoured to ally art and industry, transformed the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine into France’s premier Art Nouveau city, second only to Paris.
Anne Anderson 