When:
February 16, 2016 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2016-02-16T10:45:00+00:00
2016-02-16T12:45:00+00:00
Where:
The University Women's Club
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Cost:
£49
Contact:
The Course offers a series of art history lectures on “The Magnificent Age of the Baroque” and will focus on how people lived – their homes, their decor, their fashion, their rituals – and how this was reflected in some of the most magnificent art of the age.
The family was represented in both a religious and secular context. Scenes of the Nativity and the Holy Family were depicted by Poussin (‘Holy Family on the Steps’) and there was an emphasis on images of loving fathers such as Joseph, newly elevated to a saint, in paintings by La Tour.