Established in 1994, THE COURSE offers innovative and exciting lectures in Art History, Literature, Music and Opera.
In INSIDE, OUTSIDE, The World of the Art, Nicole Mezey will look at how creativity reflects the personal and professional experience of the artist. This series focuses on a different artist each week, looking first at the life behind their creations – the mental asylum in which Richard Dadd produced some of his greatest works, the pressure of eight children on the output of Frans Hals – before moving on to explore their work and the way it reflects that experience.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c.1656), This is a Terrible Woman
It was a rare woman who managed to make a reputation as a painter, let alone become one of the foremost artists in Europe, travelling to England to work for Charles I. Gentileschi’s gender was fundamental to her art, most of which focused on female subjects, often triumphing bloodily over men, a reflection of her early, brutal rape.