Discover Aphrodite beyond the familiar goddess of beauty: a powerful and complex deity of love, desire and persuasion, whose influence shaped Greek religion, myth and literature - and whose power could be creative, compelling and dangerous.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
Explore the dazzling richness and exuberance of Baroque art and architecture - from the earliest experiments of Michelangelo, to the voluptuous sensuality of Bernini, and beyond. Artists studied will include Borromini, Titian, Caravaggio, and Rubens.
This weekend explores the building blocks of storytelling: inspiration; character; plot; setting; structure; description and editing. Join us in Oxford for a fun, interactive course and develop your unique writer's voice. No previous experience necessary.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo and Michelangelo individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings, sculptures and writings.
How did artists respond when protest, war, empire, and industrialisation transformed France? This course explores how painters from Boucher to Manet reimagined art in relation to modern life.
Huge changes occurred in 19th-century fiction – new subjects, new literary techniques. Here we shall explain and explore them. Authors include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Herman Melville, Gustave Flaubert and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
This course dives deep into Jane Austen's most dark and complex novel, 'Mansfield Park' (1814), analysing and contextualising key elements. Includes trips to Hampshire (key sites in Austen’s life) and the Bodleian Library archives.
Explore Middlemarch by George Eliot, one of the greatest novels ever written. A humane, passionate novel, packed with psychological complexity, intellectual debates, families, beliefs and the huge implications of human choice.
