From feasting gods to sacred liturgy, discover how wine became a powerful symbol in Renaissance and Baroque art, revealing stories of celebration, excess, faith, and everyday life.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
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.
Do your exhibitions stink? Scent is becoming a popular feature in museums, but what makes olfactory visitor experiences effective? We will explore the theory, practice, benefits and pitfalls, with useful tips to help harness scent as an interpretive tool.
This course explores the riches of northern European art from c.1480 - 1580; artists including Dürer, Bosch, Holbein and Bruegel will be studied.
Work actively to understand key screenwriting concepts to build your awareness of the needs of your film idea. Develop this into a riveting outline, populate it with engaging characters, and draw your audience into your story world through genre.
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.
Is there a true story that only you can tell? This course is designed to provide you with the skills you need to turn experiences, recollections and real-life phenomena into literary works that are enjoyable and accessible to a wider audience.
This course examines the social, economic, religious, and political contexts under which women have always made art, but have largely been marginalised in its formal histories and markets.
Gain an appreciation of different forms of nature writing and produce your own texts in a supportive environment with this short online course.
If you have ever been daunted by terms such as 'modernism', 'magic realism' or 'postmodern', this is the course for you.
This course is for anyone who would like to learn to read beneath the surface, pay attention to language and form, and become a critical reader.
Uncover the mysteries of the medieval afterlife through its art and architecture. Examine a range of objects from across Western Europe and the Mediterranean.