Public Lecture Course: Art and War

The period between the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century was one of domestic and international ferment for Great Britain. It began with the threat of invasion by Spain’s mighty Armada and ended with the Royal Navy’s dominance of the seas after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s France. Spanning military, naval, political and social history, as well as three hundred years of visual culture in Great Britain, the course will feature a succession of lectures focussing on a single work of art, or a sequence of such works.

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Lecture 1: Introduction and The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I

Jackie Riding, Consultant, Author and Independent scholar, and Christine Riding, Head of Curatorial Department at the National Gallery

Lecture 2: Representing War: from Versailles to Marlborough

Lydia Hamlett, Fellow and Director of Studies in History of Art at Murray Edwards College

Lecture 3: William Hogarth’s March to Finchley

Jackie Riding, Consultant, Author and Independent scholar

Lecture 4: A Georgian Panorama

Mark Hallett, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Lecture 5: Turner’s Fighting Temeraire

Christine Riding, Head of Curatorial Department at the National Gallery