Previous Courses

Here are details of our previous courses.

Renaissance Italy: Society and the Arts

Horace Walpole and the Gothic Taste

The Princeley Courts of India, 6-27 October 2009

Eat, drink and be merry: The history of dining, 3-24 November 2009

Pioneering a New World: The Industrial Revolution and the Arts 1760–1860

The Golden Age: Shah Abbas and the Safavid Dynasty

Hadrian: His Life and Legacy

The Art of the Book

Trade and the Merchant Adventurer in the Late Middle Ages

The Grand Tour: British Travellers in Italy

Napoleon and Josephine

Celebrating British Art

Understanding Sculpture

Hogarth’s England

Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII

Velazquez and the Spanish Golden Age

Chinese Art and Culture - The Qing Empire 1644-1911

Dutch Art and Culture in the Seventeenth Century

The Glory of Ancient Persia

Peter Paul Rubens: His Life and Times

From Burgundy to Bohemia - Royal Courts in Renaissance Europe

The Romanesque in France 950-1150

The Arts of India: from the Mughuls to the British Raj

Raphael and the Renaissance of Rome

Shakespeare at Hampton Court

Byzantium

The Parisian world of Edouard Vuillard 1890-1914

The Triumph of Late Gothic Art in England 1400-1547

Adventurers, Travellers and Explorers: Discovering Ancient Civilizations and New Worlds

Titian - His life, work and legacy

The flowering of the modern age - Britain between the wars