Art History with MonLife Heritage

Enjoy our fantastic MonLife Heritage Art History lectures. Click the booking links for more details.

Art History Online - Introduction to Art : Modernism

Click here to book The Introduction to Art Course

This broad ranging and absorbing course needs no background in art history, just a desire to look harder at art and understand its developments more clearly. This series of ten evening evening illustrated talks with popular Monmouthshire lecturer Eleanor Bird takes us from 1910 to 1950, giving an overview of the art and artists of the age.

Course Length - 10 weeks of one hour evening lectures (one week off for half term)
Course Dates - Monday 20th January - Monday 31st March (no class Monday 24th February)
Time - 7pm - 8pm
Medium - Online via Zoom (with recordings available afterwards)
Course fee - £55

Click here to book The Introduction to Art Course

Art History Online - Women Artists : Shining a Light

Click here to book the Women Artists online course

Join MonLife Heritage Museums’ exciting new art history course. From van Eyck to van Dyck, Raphael to Reynolds and Pissarro to Picasso, explore how artists’ portrayal of their sitters reflected the art, politics and religion of their era.

Course Length - 10 weeks of two hour morning lectures (one week off for half term)
Course Dates - Wednesday 22nd January - Wednesday 2nd April (no class Wednesday 26th February)
Time - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Medium - Online via Zoom (with recordings available afterwards) 
(Click here if you wanted to book the in-person version of this course, rather than the online version.)
Course fee - £110

Click here to book the Women Artists online course

Art History In Person - Women Artists : Shining a Light

Click here to book the Women Artists In Person course

Join MonLife Heritage Museums’ exciting new art history course. Explore the art of major women painters from the 16th century on, some of whose names you will know – Artemesia Gentileschi, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – and some may be new: Lavinia Fontana, Judith Leyster and Rosalba Carriera, to mention just a few.

Course Length - 10 weeks of two hour afternoon lectures (one week off for half term)
Course Dates - Monday 20th January - Monday 31st March (no class Monday 24th February)
Time - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Medium - In person at the Drill Hall Chepstow (with the option to catch up on any missed session with recorded online lectures available for a limited period). 
(Click here if you wanted to book the online version of this course rather than the in-person course.)
Course fee - £110

Click here to book the Women Artists In Person Course