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Established in 1994, THE COURSE offers exciting and innovative lectures in the History of Art, Literature, Music and Opera.
In “Foreigners in London”, Leslie Primo will discuss why the aristocracy preferred foreign painters to native-born English ones? Why did foreigners come in the first place? What was their motivation and what was the impact of foreigners on English art and art practice? This course will trace foreign artists from the Tudors to the Neo-Classical looking at their origins and how they came to work in England.
ORAZIO & ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI At the court of Charles I
Emerging out of a Caravaggio influenced Baroque tradition of painting, we will examine the life of the Italian Orazio Gentileschi and his time in London, painting at the court of Charles I. We will first explore his time in Pisa, Rome and Genoa and then look at what is now regarded as his most famous work, the ceiling at the Queen’s House in Greenwich. What, if any involvement, did Orazio’s daughter, Artemisia Gentileschi, have in this project?