Saturday, November 8

Course: Creating Western European Landscapes: Art and Environment

1500 - 2000

By The Salisbury Museum

Date and time

Location

The Salisbury Museum

65 The Close Salisbury SP1 2EN United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event.

About this event

Event lasts 20 days 15 hours

This four week course explores the art of the topography and built landscape, by looking at four distinct periods of history. Beginning with the first stirrings of western landscape art in the Renaissance, we continue by studying landscape development in the Netherlands and East Anglia, and the art which accompanied it. Our focus then switches to the creation of the English rural idyll and its portrayal by artists such as John Constable. We conclude by thinking about how artists have perceived our world since the First World War and ecological representation in the twentieth century.

Tutors: Very Rev David Brindley Dr Hadrian Cook.

The course takes place over four Saturday mornings: 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of November between 10.15 and 12.30 at Salisbury Museum in the Close. There will be a local guided landscape walk to illustrate some elements of the taught course.

Venue: Museum Hall

The taught element of this course is accessible via stairs or lift

Organized by

The Salisbury Museum

The Salisbury Museum tells the story of Salisbury and its surrounding areas - a unique landscape which has been a cradle of continuous human achievement for over half a million years.

The museum uses the extraordinary breadth of its collections, exhibitions and events - including prehistoric material from Stonehenge and South Wiltshire; the Pitt Rivers’ Wessex collection; and a fine medieval collection with finds from Old Sarum, Clarendon Palace and the city itself - to bring to life the narrative of this landscape, and of the people who shaped it and have been inspired by it for over 500,000 years.

Based in the King’s House, a grade I listed building located opposite Salisbury Cathedral, the museum building formerly housed a teacher training college and was the inspiration for an episode in Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure.