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‘History painting’ was a special genre for a distinct clientele in the Dutch Republic. It depicted stories from especially the Bible and Antiquity with the aim of moving the viewer. However, it could also provide an excuse for depicting the female nude. Trained in history painting by Pieter Lastman, Rembrandt gradually developed his own interpretations […] 
Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […] |
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This lecture looks at the collection in the Rijksmuseum, the building, its history and the recent 10-year renovation that brought back the splendour of architect Pierre Cuyper’s original neo-gothic decorations. Besides the art of Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh there is medieval art, jewellery, musical instruments, Asian art and even an FK23 Bantam plane […] |
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Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […]
Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […] |
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Between 1885 – 1916, Carl Fabergé made 50 jewelled eggs – Easter presents from Russia’s last two emperors to their wives. The most famous surviving symbols of the Romanov Empire, they are supreme examples of the jeweller’s art, albeit playthings of a decadent court. Given broad artistic freedom, Fabergé had to satisfy just three rules: […] |
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Love and marriage have always been a source of inspiration to authors and artists alike. One of the most famous portraits in the National Gallery is Van Eyck’s enigmatic Arnolfini Portrait, but marital depictions have a much longer history: in Ancient Egypt people chose to have themselves immortalised as loving couples. Double or pendant portraits […] |
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250 years after Antonio Stradivari’s death, his violins and cellos remain the world’s most highly prized instruments. Loved by great musicians and capable of fetching fabulous sums when sold, their tone and beauty are legendary. Every subsequent violinmaker has tried to match them. Not one has succeeded. How can that be? This lecture explores that […] |
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Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […]
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Artists were never far behind the explorers opening up America’s west in the 19th century. Sometimes they painted what they saw, sometimes what they wished they saw. Either way, painters like Alfred Miller, Frederick Church and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful, if romanticised, record of the country and people they found. Their pictures also chart […]
Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […] |
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The three textile roads that tangle their way through Central Asia, changed and transformed the physical landscape, history, politics and culture of the region. Wool created the clothing and housing needed by the great nomadic cultures that were to dominate Middle Asia. Silk was more valuable than gold and used as currency, creating a network of trading routes that led […] 
Join Toby Faber as he presents the history of cover designs by Faber and Faber, founded in 1925, and one of London’s most important literary publishing houses. This lecture highlights the company’s legacy of combining great literature with stunning design, and features cover illustrations by celebrated artists such as Rex Whistler and Damien Hirst. Toby […] 
A portrait can be much more than a straightforward likeness of a person. A cryptoportrait may, at first sight, not look like a portrait at all because it can be ‘disguised’ e.g. as an Adoration of the Magi with real people playing the parts of the Magi, or as a statue of a prophet or […] |
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Houses made from wool that warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands that appease ancestors, embroideries that ward off evil, and kilims that store kitchenware, with everything ready to be packed and carried on a yak or camel at a moment’s notice. The little-known nomadic textile cultures of the Kyrgyz, […] |
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This diigtal livestream presentation looks at the collection in the Rijksmuseum, the building, its history and the recent 10-year renovation that brought back the splendour of architect Pierre Cuyper’s original neo-gothic decorations. Besides the art of Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh there is medieval art, jewellery, musical instruments, Asian art and even an FK23 […] |
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Explore Uzbekistan’s blend of ancient and modern, from the glittering mosques of Samarkand to the Soviet architecture of Tashkent with cultural revivalist, author and international tour leader, Chris Aslan. This presentation includes exciting opportunities to discover the Savitsky Museum’s avant-garde art collection, the revival of Islamic miniature painting in Bukhara, and the resurgence of Uzbekistan’s […]
Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […]
Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […] |
7 events,
Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […] |
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As a pioneer of literary modernism, T S Eliot inevitably influenced his counterparts in the visual arts. He was friends with several artists. Edward McKnight Kauffer and David Jones illustrated his work: Patrick Heron and Wyndham Lewls painted him; Jacob Epstein sculpted him. There are paintings inspired by his poems. And the reverse is also […]
Houses made from wool that warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands that appease ancestors, embroideries that ward off evil, and kilims that store kitchenware, with everything ready to be packed and carried on a yak or camel at a moment’s notice. The little-known nomadic textile cultures of the Kyrgyz, […] |
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Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […] |
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (d. 1569) is probably best known for his colourful depictions of peasants making merry or toiling in the fields. He also painted religious scenes in the Netherlandish countryside. Although these works lent him the epithet, ‘Peasant Brueghel’, his work was more than just charmingly naïve. He was very much a townsman […] |
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (d. 1569) is probably best known for his colourful depictions of peasants making merry or toiling in the fields. He also painted religious scenes in the Netherlandish countryside. Although these works lent him the epithet, ‘Peasant Brueghel’, his work was more than just charmingly naïve. He was very much a townsman […]
Explore Uzbekistan’s blend of ancient and modern, from the glittering mosques of Samarkand to the Soviet architecture of Tashkent with cultural revivalist, author and international tour leader, Chris Aslan. This presentation includes exciting opportunities to discover the Savitsky Museum’s avant-garde art collection, the revival of Islamic miniature painting in Bukhara, and the resurgence of Uzbekistan’s […] |
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Explore Uzbekistan’s blend of ancient and modern, from the glittering mosques of Samarkand to the Soviet architecture of Tashkent with cultural revivalist, author and international tour leader, Chris Aslan. This presentation includes exciting opportunities to discover the Savitsky Museum’s avant-garde art collection, the revival of Islamic miniature painting in Bukhara, and the resurgence of Uzbekistan’s […] |
4 events,
Houses made from wool that warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands that appease ancestors, embroideries that ward off evil, and kilims that store kitchenware, with everything ready to be packed and carried on a yak or camel at a moment’s notice. The little-known nomadic textile cultures of the Kyrgyz, […]
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Children can be found in art across at least five millennia. The question is whether these pictures are recognisable to us as children. When we look at early child portraits we often see diminutive figures, stiff and often dressed in adult-like clothes: the stereotypical ‘miniature adults’ that confirm our worst fears. Yet what can depictions […]
Houses made from wool that warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands that appease ancestors, embroideries that ward off evil, and kilims that store kitchenware, with everything ready to be packed and carried on a yak or camel at a moment’s notice. The little-known nomadic textile cultures of the Kyrgyz, […] |
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For about 200 years until the mid- 18th century, workshops in the small northern Italian town of Cremona produced violins and other string instruments which remain the most desirable in the world. This lecture traces the story of that golden age, beginning with Andrea Amati in the 1560s then through the generations to the death […] |
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About a third of 17th century Dutch paintings feature musical instruments or scenes of music-making. Music was celebrated as a means of social or familial bonding and as an expression of love, while also feared for its seductive, immoral connotations. A strict etiquette surrounded the act of performing music by men and women and the […]
Houses made from wool that warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands that appease ancestors, embroideries that ward off evil, and kilims that store kitchenware, with everything ready to be packed and carried on a yak or camel at a moment’s notice. The little-known nomadic textile cultures of the Kyrgyz, […] |
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A familiar image in medieval Annunciation scenes is that of the Virgin Mary reading a book, but what exactly is she supposed to be reading? A devotional book probably, and perhaps one with beautiful decorations: intricate initials, miniatures glittering with gold, and witty marginalia. The illuminators of such manuscripts have themselves often remained anonymous, yet […]
Chris Aslan tells his own story of working with UNESCO to establish a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, Uzbekistan - the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world. His work took him to the bazaars of Afghanistan to purchase natural dyes, and to the great libraries and museums of […]
Explore Uzbekistan’s blend of ancient and modern, from the glittering mosques of Samarkand to the Soviet architecture of Tashkent with cultural revivalist, author and international tour leader, Chris Aslan. This presentation includes exciting opportunities to discover the Savitsky Museum’s avant-garde art collection, the revival of Islamic miniature painting in Bukhara, and the resurgence of Uzbekistan’s […] |
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