NEW! The Vitality and beauty of Greek art and architecture
1 day | £99 per person | 16 October 2024
The Vitality and Beauty of Greek Art and Architecture
A casual glance down any modern high street will probably provide a reminder of the influence which ancient Greek art and architecture still has. This Lecture day will explore some of the finest manifestations of the Greek artistic achievements with an eye to the influences on, and the influences of, that art. The focus will be on temple architecture and sculptural decoration, vase-painting, plus free-standing sculpture and the birth of portraiture, and we will touch upon the social, religious and historical background to these astonishing artistic creations. Ancient Greek art is greatly admired, and with good reason: the historian and biographer Plutarch wrote, ‘a bloom of eternal freshness hovers over these works and preserves them from the touch of time, as if some unfading spirit of youth, some ageless vitality had been breathed into them.’ Join Dr Steve Kershaw to explore why this is.
Steve will be leading Art Pursuits tours to Greece in 2025. You can see him with Dan Snow on the recently-aired C5 documentary Atlantis: The Discovery with Dan Snow.
TIMETABLE FOR THE DAY
10.00-10.30 Welcome refreshments
10.30-11.30 – Lecture 1
11:30- 12.00 Refreshments
12:00-13:00 – Lecture 2
13:00-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:00 Lecture 3
15:00-15:30 Refreshments
Price: £99
Date:
16 October 2024
Your day includes:
- Three lectures
- Refreshments
- Light lunch
Lecturer
Dr Steve Kershaw
As a Classics Tutor for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, and as a lecturer for the V&A and The Arts Society, Dr. Steve Kershaw has spent much of the last 40 years travelling extensively in the world of the Ancient Greeks both physically and intellectually. His media appearances include featuring as an expert contributor to the History Channel’s Barbarians Rising series and as a guest on BBC Radio 3’s You’re Dead to Me, and his publications on Greek history include A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths, A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization, Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, and a children’s book on Greek Mythology entitled Mythologica that was Amazon.com’s Best Children’s Non-Fiction Book of 2019.
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