About

Art History Online 10 Week Course with MonLife Heritage Museums

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. From Romanticism to the revolution of Impressionism, this series of ten online lectures moves from the early 19th century to the 1880s, covering some of the most radical developments in art since the Renaissance.

Course Length - 10 weeks of one hour evening lectures (one week off for half term)
Course Dates - Monday 15th January - Monday 25th March (no class Monday 12th February)
Time - 7pm - 8pm
Medium - Online via Zoom (with recordings available afterwards)
Course fee - £50

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NB there will also be the opportunity to access a recording of one of the live lectures, which will usually be available for a week following, so you should not have to miss any

The course covers the peak of British landscape painting with Turner and Constable leading the way, and the influence that those painters had on French artists. The series goes on to explore dramatic changes in French art – with Realism changing the subject matter artists chose to explore and the Barbizon painters finding beauty in everyday landscapes. While the British Pre-Raphaelites became fascinated with the medieval and William Morris began the Arts & Crafts movement, in France a few radical painters developed the brilliant colours and instant impact of Impressionism.

Image: JMW Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (Cleveland)