How to Look at Early Renaissance Art: FULL COURSE

How to Look at Early Renaissance Art: From Giotto to Botticelli

Come and explore the captivating works of the Early Italian Renaissance...

The Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and creative activity, a ‘re-birth’ of the science and arts. It was a progressive, exhilarating time during which artists broke away from the restrictions of Byzantine Art and moved towards a truly modern age.

The engineering of Brunelleschi’s dome, the brilliant perspective in Masaccio’s Holy Trinity, and the humanism of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus each help define the Early Renaissance in Italy.

We will look at these, as well as works by Giotto, Fra Angelico and Piero della Francesca.

The full course is as follows

Mon 6 Oct - 6pm (BST) - PART ONE: GIOTTO

Mon 13 Oct- 6pm (BST) - PART TWO: FLORENCE, GHIBERTI & BRUNELLESCHI

Mon 20 Oct - 6pm (BST) - PART THREE: MASACCIO & PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

Mon 27 Oct - 6pm (GMT) - PART FOUR: FRA ANGELICO

Mon 3 Nov - 6pm (GMT) - PART FIVE: LIPPI & BOTTICELLI

For more information and to find out about future talks please visit www.stellagracelyons.co.uk

Stella Grace Lyons is a freelance Art History lecturer, speaker and writer accredited with The Arts Society. She has lectured across the UK, Ireland, Spain, Norway, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malaysia and will soon embark on a lecturing tour in Australasia.

Stella gained her BA in the History of Art with a 1st class in her dissertation from the University of Bristol (2007-2011), and her MA in History of Art from the University of Warwick.

She spent a year studying Renaissance art in Italy at the British Institute of Florence, and three months studying Venetian art in Venice. In addition, she attended drawing classes at the prestigious Charles H. Cecil studios in Florence, a private atelier that follows a curriculum based on the leading ateliers of nineteenth century Paris.

Stella runs her own Art History lectures and is a regular lecturer in the UK and Europe for The Arts Society, ACE Cultural Tours, Hebridean Island Cruises, Saga’s Art Appreciation Tours, and the National Trust, amongst others. Stella is also a part-time lecturer for the University of South Wales.

She has written about art for several publications and her article on Norwegian art was recently featured on the front cover of the Arts Society Magazine. In addition to her lecturing work, Stella works as an artist’s model for the internationally renowned figurative artist, Harry Holland.