How did one artist help shape a global artistic language? Discover how Rubens’ dynamic style travelled across Europe and beyond, linking courts, empires, and cultures.
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Join us in Oxford for an inspiring and informative weekend event exploring the essentials of writing prose fiction, including the four key pillars of character, dialogue, description and narrative structure.
A practical course covering all aspects of novel writing from character creation and story development to final edit.
During this flexible online course, learn how to study and analyse paintings, drawings and prints, and learn the 'language of looking'.
Explore the culture of the English country house from its architectural form, social manners and distinctions to the furnishings and artistic manifestations of taste, as an expression of power and influence in a changing society.
Explore Impressionism and modern life in nineteenth-century France through the work of Monet, Manet, Degas and their contemporaries. This course examines Impressionist techniques, women Impressionists, critical responses to the exhibitions, and the moveme
This course will focus on works by four of the era's major figures - Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy - identifying how the century's main preoccupations find substance in the work of its greatest writers.
Beginning with the vital structural innovations of the late Victorian era, this online course traces the rise and spread of modernism in European and American architecture, and concludes by examining contemporary architecture and future possibilities.
This course is for those who would like to write but don't know how; who tried once and gave up; or who already write but would like to improve; and for readers who have no desire to write but want a different perspective on how fiction works.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will centre on twelve of Raphael’s drawings, from which we will also consider relationships with his paintings. It will cover the main periods of his career, techniques and working methods.
From Chaucer to the latest detective fiction, Oxford has been the setting for stories of all kinds. This walking tour, plus lunch, will examine Oxford's literary pre-eminence, discover literary connections and share some tall tales.
Join the curators and others from ‘behind the scenes’ of the Ashmolean’s major exhibition, 'Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses’, to discover the stories behind the show.