ART HISTORY
TALKS & EVENTS
Northlight Arts Centre and Leeds Art History Group bring you the North's best voices in historical art. Our Art History Talks are your opportunity to join professors, art historians, artists and academics for two hours of engaging talks and lectures with discussions and Q&A.
TICKETS COST £10 for each evening
Doors open 6.30pm to buy refreshments. Talk starts at 7pm.
Licensed Bar serving beers and wines.
Coffee and soft refreshments also available.
Free visitors’ car park
Well serviced bus routes to and from Harrogate and Leeds
Wheelchair access
MAR 4TH
Velazquez
A Talk with Simon Marginson
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) was the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Court painter to Philip IV, Velazquez is famed for his cunning compositions and bravura paint handling. A painter’s painter, Velazquez was a decisive influence on modern art revered by everyone from Edouard Manet to Francis Bacon
MAR 18TH
Women Artists In Renaissance ltaly
A Talk with Rachael Gorton
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
How many Renaissance women artists do you know? What is the Renaissance anyway? Discover why so few women artists from this illustrious period appear in art history textbooks today - what women were up to, how they started to get into art and what role they played in the development of this pivotal art movement.
APR 1ST
The Museum and Collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner
A Talk with Matthew Merrick
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Exploring the museum and collection of one of the United States' most important Fine Art and Design Collections. Located in Boston Massachusetts, the museum is home to amongst others, works by Titian, Whistler; John Singer Sergeant and Raphael as well as furniture, fabric and books collected across her lifetime.
APR 15TH
Roman Trier: 4th Century Capital of Empire
A Talk with Joyce Hill
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
The city of Trier in modern Germany functioned for much of the fourth century as the western imperial capital. This illustrated lecture sets the historical context, examines the outstanding survivals from the resulting building programme and climaxes with illustrations of some beautiful artefacts, including a remarkable survival of imperial art, thought to have been made for Fausta, wife of Constantine the Great.
APR 29TH
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Part 2
A Talk with Matthew Merrick
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Exploring the museum and collection of ome of the US's most important Fine Art and Design Collections in Boston, Massachusetts, the rnuseum is home to amongst others, works by Titian, Whistler; John Singer Sergeant and Raphael as well as furniture, fabric and books collected across her lifetime.
MAY 13TH
Burmantofts Pottery:
A Leeds Rival for Doulton and Minton in Victorian Times
A Talk with Leslie Newnham
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Burmantofts went from extremely humble beginnings to worldwide fame and enjoyed royal patronage. Collections of the artware are available to be seen at Lotherton Hall and Kirkstall Abbey Museum and their architectural mouldings and tiles on many buildings and interiors around Leeds and also nationwide.
JUN 3RD
Surrealist Photography : Man Ray and Lee Miller
A Talk with Simon Marginson
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
American artist Man Ray was a Photographer associated with Dada and Surrealism. Renowned for his innovations in camera-less photography, he produced experimental Rayographs alongside conventional fashion photography. His protégé and lover Lee Miller began her career as a model before becoming the war correspondent for Vogue.
JUN 17TH
Divorced, Beheaded, Died…..
A Presentation of Popular Music from the time of
King Henry Vlll
A Talk with Peter Bull
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Instrumental music performed by Peter Bull on Wheel Fiddle (Hurdy Gurdy), Recorders, and Hammered Dulcimer, and songs to the accompaniment of the Renaissance Lute.
JUL 1ST
Constructivism:
Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova
A Talk with Simon Marginson
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Constructivism couple Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova combine revolutionary politics with revolutionary art. Working against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, they envisaged a new art for a new society. Their work straddled the fine and applied arts, encompassing everything from painting, sculpture, and photography to biscuit packaging, stage sets, and textiles.
