2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Founded in 1994, THE COURSE offers art history lectures, opera and literature courses, guided museum visits and London walks.
This course will examine the changing face of the portrait from the 6th century to the present. It will look at how and why its meaning and function have mutated and why artists are still drawn to this medium despite the advent of photography. It will also explore whether a portrait has to convey an accurate likeness and how artists went about trying to convey “character”.
ANGELICA KAUFFMANN AND ENGLAND’S OBSESSION WITH PORTRAITURE
Angelica Kauffmann was born in Switzerland but went on to become a great British Neo-Classical artist, her reputation equalling male contemporaries in an age that rarely recognised women. Looking at her training and early paintings as well as the influence of the great Italian Renaissance masters and Dutch painting on her work, we will chart her rise to fame and her association with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Joshua Reynolds.