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EVENING/AFTERNOON LECTURES

Evening and Afternoon lectures are held at Moor Park Mansion, WD3 1QL. In addition to the lecture one can also book supper or afternoon tea. There will be no Zoom facilities at Moor Park Mansion.

Non-members
If you wish to 'attend' as a visitor please use the General Queries Form at the foot of this page.

Times
Evening Lectures - if you book the optional supper please arrive at 18:00, otherwise arrive in person from 19:00. Refreshments are available at the bar. The lectures begin at 19:30.
Afternoon Lectures - please arrive by 14:30 for the start of the lecture. If you book the optional afternoon tea, that will follow at 16:00.

25 May

THURSDAY 25 MAY 2023

BRUEGEL

THE SEASONS AND THE WORLD

Speaker:

Gavin Plumley

This will be our first afternoon lecture.
In 1565, Pieter Bruegel the Elder was commissioned to create a series of paintings for a dining room in Antwerp. The images he created, charting the course of a year, changed the way we view the world through art. Instead of being merely a decorative backdrop to dramas both sacred and profane, in Bruegel's hands the landscape and our interaction with it became the focus. This lecture explores how Bruegel pioneered a whole new way of thinking about the environment and our individual places within a shifting cosmos.

......and these are the Events that have already taken place ......

24-Nov

THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2022

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM

The Birth of Mid-Century Modernism

Speaker:

Jacky Klein

This evening we explore the life and career of Peggy Guggenheim, one of the 20th century's most famed collectors. Why, out of the blue, did she start collecting contemporary art in the 1930s? What impact did her subsequent galleries in London, New York and Venice have on artists and the wider art world? How did a society heiress play such a pivotal role in the making of mid-century Modernism?