The Birmingham Course

 

This course comprises a series of six two hour workshops culminating in a visit to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.  You will be introduced in each session to key paintings from different eras displayed in the Art Gallery. In groups, you will study and discuss the paintings 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 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the final week.

 

Day: TBC

 

Dates: TBC

 

Time: 2-4pm ( 11am - 3.30pm at the Wallace Collection)

 

Length: Over 10 weeks (seven two hour sessions in Great Missenden; one four hour session at the Wallace Collection with a break for lunch)

 

Venue: The Oldham Hall,  Great Missenden and the Wallace Collection, London

 

Proposed Content:

 

• An Allegory of True Love - Pieter Pourbus 1547

• Marriage of the Virgin  - Murillo 1670 and De Champaigne 1644

• The Listening Housewife - Maes 1656 and Celebrating the Birth - Steen 1664

• The Good Samaritan - Rembrandt 1630

• A Dance to the Music of Time - Poussin 1634

• Execution of the Doge, Marino Faliero - Delacroix  1825-6

• Henry III - Bonnington 1828

• Visit to the Wallace Collection

 

Course Fee: £95.00 (including refreshments)