The Ashmolean course

 

This course comprises a series of seven two hour workshops culminating in a visit to the Asmolean in Oxford. You will be introduce in each session to one of seven key paintings from different eras displayed at the Asmolean. In groups, you will study and discuss the painting in detail. Facilitated by your tutor, you will become your own expert on these paintings. Your knowledge and understanding will then be tested by a fun quiz trail at the Ashmolean in the final week.

 

Day: Wednesday

 

Dates: 18 and 25 January, 22 February, 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 March 2017 

 

Time: 10.30 - 12.30

 

Length: Over 8 weeks (seven two hour sessions in Marlow; one four hour session at the Ashmolean with a break for lunch)

 

Venue: The Cornerstone Room at the United Reform Church, Marlow and the Ashmolean, Oxford

 

Proposed Content: 

 

• The Hunt by Paolo Uccello (1470)  

• The Resurrection of Christ by Tintoretto (1570-1580)

• The Deposition by Van Dyck (1619)

• The Exposition of Moses by Nicolas Poussin (1654)

• A converted British Family by William Holman Hunt (1850)

• The Tuileries Gardens, Rainy Weather by Camille Pissarro (1899)

• The Towpath by CRW Nevinson (1912)

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Course Fee: £95.00 (including refreshments)