The Mirror of Reality : 3 Lectures on Flemish Art from Van Eyck to Brueghel

Lecture1: Jan van Eyck to Memling and the Emergence of the Portrait in the 15th Century.

Lecture 2: Hell and Damnation from Bosch to Pieter Bruegel the Elder in Flemish Painting 1480-1560

Lecture 3: Flemish Painters and the Development of Landscape from Background to Foreground 1520-1620

Clare Ford-Wille has an Honours degree in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London. Regular commitments include Centre for Lifelong Learning, London University, National Gallery, V&A Museum, WEA, Morley College, the City Literary Institute, the Art Fund and National Trust.

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Three Lectures on Scottish Art

Lecture1:      The Glasgow Boys and their triumph over the Edinburgh Glue Pots

Lecture 2:      Charles Ronnie  Mackintosh - More than just a tea room!

Lecture 3:   The Scottish Colourists: Bringing Paris to the Highlands and Islands

Stella Grace Lyons is a freelance Art History lecturer, speaker and writer accredited with The Arts Society. She has lectured across the UK, Ireland, Spain, Norway, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Malaysia. Stella gained her BA in the History of Art with a 1st class in her dissertation from the University of Bristol and her MA in History of Art from the University of Warwick. She spent a year studying Renaissance art in Italy at the British Institute of Florence and three months studying Venetian art in Venice.