Category: Past Events

Before this month’s meeting, many of us thought of Titian as Venice’s great Renaissance painter but, the revelatory insight into[…]

By Linda Smith. This lecture traces the development of sculpture in the twentieth century, from large lumps of marble at[…]

By Anthea Streeter. Nowadays many people are familiar with Mackintosh’s striking and innovative designs; his high-backed chairs and white-paintedfurniture.  Yet,[…]

By Janet Canetty-Clarke.   Janet has built up an immense list of operas – some old, some new, some very[…]

By Peter Medhurst. The celebration of the period following Christmas can be traced back several millennia and to at least[…]

By John Iddon. This is the story of the artists who fled to Britain to escape the war in France,[…]

By Clare Phillips This is the rescheduled lecture originally planned for March but which was cancelled due to the adverse[…]

By Alexandra Epps. This is a special Lecture in Celebration of the NADFAS Golden Anniversary which will be followed by[…]

Who was Tutankhamun – The Boy King Behind the Greatest Treasures Ever Found by Anthony Russell. Read the lecture report[…]

By Colin Davies. Dame Zaha Hadid died suddenly in 2016, at the age of sixty-five. Architectural historians of the future[…]

By Ann Clements. Although most famous for “The Kiss”, there is in fact much more to Klimt’s work. Throughout his[…]