PONDS & TREES TALK 1: DURER TO MONET

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This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential. Book below

Please note the in-person talk is now fully booked, but there are still online tickets available.


With Juliet Heslewood, art historian

Ponds are an attractive feature in nature and have been appreciated by artists for centuries.

They flourish with fish or fowl and grow beautiful lilies. They serve as the setting for mythic tales or lovers’ meetings, even if artificially created.

In this talk, Juliet Heslewood discusses the many ponds in art, from Dürer’s early landscape view to Monet’s great achievement at his home in Giverny.
 

A muted painting of two frozen ponds on a cold winter's day, surrounded by snow-covered grass, reeds and bare branches, with rolling hills in the background

Frozen Ponds, John Nash, 1953, oil on canvas, credit to the artist's estate and Bridgeman Images

 

This is the first talk in this series of two. Each talk needs to be booked separately.

The talk is part of our Shaped by Nature 2026 season of events.


BOOKING

This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential. Only online tickets available now

 BOOK YOUR ONLINE TICKET

If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk