WOMEN IN ART TALK 2: LOVERS

Sat 13 Mar 2027, 11am–12pm

This talk is in-person in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £10. Booking is essential.

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With Juliet Heslewood, art historian

The second in our series of three talks about women in art.

This talk will reveal the different, sometimes surprising, approaches artists have taken in their depictions of their loved ones.

How did they portray the subject of love? How did they reveal the feelings they had for their own lovers? How much of a role did nudity play in such portraiture? Did they idealise their loved ones?

Individual portraits of the people artists have loved reveal far more than physical representations.

The Day Dream, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of his most remarkable 'mythological' portraits of Jane Morris

The Day Dream, Rossetti's 'mythological' portrait of his muse Jane Morris

Rossetti 'personified' his muse and artistic inspiration, Jane Morris as a 'day dream'. Botticelli painted a lost ideal in Venus; Dali included a pork chop in his wife's portrait (he loved both), while Chagall showed himself literally head over heels.

In her talk, Juliet Heslewood will delve into the different styles and practices of such artists when love and the lover or muse is the subject or inspiration.

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