CLASSICISM IN VICTORIAN PAINTING TALK 1
The Olympian Royal Academy Painters, with Martin Beek
In-person talk takes place in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.
With artist & art historian Martin Beek.
The first of two talks on Victorian Painters looks at the Olympian artists of the Royal Academy and their explorations of the classical mythology of beauty.
The paintings of Frederic Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward Poynter not only absorb exciting archaeological discoveries, but they also act as a cipher or mirror of late Victorian society.
Many artists closely used classical mythological sources; others, such as Albert Moore and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, used the mythic past in their own explorations of ideal beauty.
This is the first talk in this series of two. Each talk needs to be booked separately.
This talk is part of our Love & Legacy season of events.
BOOKING
This past event has now taken place.
If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
