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Velazquez and the Spanish Golden Age The life of Velazquez (1599-1660), from his youth in the great cosmopolitan city of Seville to his service as artist and courtier in Madrid, spans the great age of Spanish painting, literature and poetry. The period also saw the decline of Spain as a formidable European power due to its faltering economy and prolonged warfare. This course will look at the character of the Spanish court under Philip III and Philip IV, the growth of Madrid as the country’s new capital with its royal and private palaces, the painting and sculpture produced by Velazquez’s contemporaries, and the work of Velazquez himself – his brilliant skills as a portraitist, his complex mythologies and his virtuoso handling of paint, so influential for avant-garde artists in the nineteenth century. |
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| Tuesday 7 November 2006 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Velazquez’s
Madrid: The Creation of a Baroque Capital Dr. Patrick Williams, University of Portsmouth |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| Art and Devotion
in Velazquez’s Spain Dr. Marta Cacho Casal, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum |
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| 1pm | ||||
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| Velazquez’s
Contemporaries and Rivals Dr. Jeremy Roe |
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| Tuesday 14 November 2006 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Spanish Sculpture
in the Golden Age Marjorie Trusted FSA, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| High Art/Low
Life: Velazquez’s Bodegones Professor Valerie Fraser |
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| 1pm | ||||
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| 2.30pm | ||||
Visit to the Print Room at the British Museum with Dr. Mark McDonald, Curator of Old Master Prints This visit will be limited to fifteen people |
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| Tuesday 21 November 2006 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Velazquez’s
Career as a Portraitist Dr. Zahira Veliz Bomford |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| Velazquez
and the Households of Philip IV and Mariana of Austria Dr Alistair Malcolm, Department of History, University of Limerick |
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| Visit to the exhibition “Velazquez” at the National Gallery | ||||
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| Tuesday 28 November 2006 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Northern
European Influences on Velazquez Gail Turner, Lecturer and Art Historian |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| Velazquez,
Italy and Classical Mythology Dr Marta Bustillo, National College of Art and Design, Dublin |
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| Velazquez’s
Influence in the Nineteenth Century Nigel Glendinning, Emeritus Professor of Spanish, Queen Mary, University of London |
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The cost of the full course is £228. The cost of the morning
lectures only (lunch not included) is £130. The lectures will
take place at The Medical Society of London, To apply, please contact us. |
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