Art History Lectures [copyright Hilary Hope Guise] Digital presentations of one hour, that have been written and delivered for the National Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (UK and International), The Art Fund (UK), The Smithsonian Institution (USA), English Speaking Union of America (USA), University of Cape Town (South Africa), DARTS (South Africa), Cambridge University (UK), Institute of American Universities, Aix-en-Provence (France), ADFAS (Australia), NZDFAS (New Zealand) and other institutions. Study Days in the London Museums are also available on request for small private groups.
Lectures and Days of Special Interest with three:
Spanish Fire - El Greco 's influence on Picasso
The Olympic Games – Chariots of Fire (the ancient games)
Gertrude Stein and Her Circle . Series of three lectures
Botticelli's Secrets. OR three lectures Botticelli's Secrets
Who was Venus ?
Late Botticelli
Flowers in the Art of the Great Masters.
One hour lectures in-depth on five individual masterepieces : Or grouped as a DSI
Botticelli's Primevera
Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks
Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus
Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbes
Picasso's Desmoiselles d'Avignon
Marc Chagall - and the Supremacy of Blue. OR two lectures Marc Chagall - An alien in Exile
Marc Chagall - and the Supremacy of Blue
The Young Picasso - in Paris OR Picasso - What really happened in the Batteau Lavoir
An Open Window to the Sea - Henri Matisse on the Cote d'Azur
Manet - Master of the Modern Idiom OR DSI Three lectures Manet Master of the Modern Idiom
Manet goes to Spain
Manet at Argenteuil
Alfred Sisley – the Quiet Impressionist
Landscapes of Provence - Cezanne and Van Gogh
Figure Artists of the Late 19th century - Degas, Rodin, Toulouse Lautrec
Meditations on the Flow of Time - Claude Monet in the 1880s and beyond
Engaging the Present - French Impressionists in the 1860s and 70s.
French Impressionists - DSI Three lectures Engaging the Present - 1860s and 70s
The Flight from Modernism – 1880s
Monet at Giverny and Belle Isle
The Art of Empire - Victorian Art and Engravings
The Colour Blue - From Paradise to Poison
The Colour Red - Its Sacred and Secular meaning
Paradise Found - A Cultural History of Provence - three lectures DSI
A Classical Land - Greek and Roman provence
Medieval Pilgrims and monestaries
Landscapes of Cezanne and Van Gogh
Wine and the Vine in Art. Can be with a wine tasting. Single lecture or DSI three
Star of Wonder - Star of Light - The Star of Bethlehem (Christmas lecture)
The Ox and the Ass – Silent Watchers at the crib (Christmas lecture)
On Classical Greek art and culture:
The Olympic Games – Chariots of Fire
The Parthenon – The Greatest Temple Ever Built
The Parthenon Frieze - its mysteries and secrets
Delphi - and the Oracle
The Eleusinian Mysteries
On Early Christian Iconography
The Sign of the Fish - the rise of Judeo-Christian imagery in a Pagan world
Constantine and the Chi Rho - The Baptisteries and mosaics
Christ Helios - the First Christian Heresy
