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Canaletto's paintings have defined the look of mid-eighteenth century London. This lecture will explore the extent to which Canaletto built upon the existing visual landscape.
An astonishing masterpiece, painted in Antwerp and shipped to London, is the focus of this lecture which discusses the importance and impact of Rubens on English culture and society.
Hans Holbein the Younger, portraitist, muralist, designer of jewellery and precious metalware, spent half of his distinguished career in London during the turbulent reign of King Henry VIII.
As part of the symposium entitled ‘Cultural Heritage and War’, Dr Mark Altaweel discusses the situation in Iraq and Syria since the Fall of Mosul in 2011 and the looting of historical objects and artefacts coming into the Western Art Market and being sold illegally.
This final lecture of the series, given in the church whose bells are commemorated in nursery rhyme as the ‘bells of the Old Bailey’, will explore the place of the bell tower and its inhabitants in the medieval imagination.
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