When:
October 20, 2020 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2020-10-20T10:45:00+01:00
2020-10-20T12:45:00+01:00
Where:
The University Women's Club
2 Audley Square
London W1K 1DB
2 Audley Square
London W1K 1DB
Cost:
£63.00
Contact:
Founded in 1994, The Course is an award winning organisation which offers art history, music, literature and garden lectures.
In this 10 week series on Desire and Longing in Art, you will look across the centuries at how artists have explored the enduring themes of love, courtship, marriage and sexual desire.
Session 5 Broken Vows: Adultery and its Consequences
Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode, the paintings and pastels of Paula Rego (subject of a 2021 retrospective at Tate Britain), the Victorian mistresses depicted by Holman Hunt, Augustus Leopold Egg’s triptych Past and Present, all speculate on the darker side of marriage.