Kenwood Lectures 2007-08

All lectures are at Kenwood House and begin at 11am. They are free to members. No need to book, just turn up on the day, but please remember to bring your membership card. Non-members £10.

13 April 2008 WHAT TIME WAS IT? Dr Kristen Lippincott

A mini-introduction to the complicated history of time-telling in early modern Europe. Why do all the clocks in northern Italy have XVIII at the top of the dial instead of 12? Why are historians confused about Michelangelo’s exact birth date? And why did the English lose 11 days when they changed the calendar in 1752? Dr Lippincott, former deputy director at the National Maritime Museum, is a historian of art and science. She organised the fabulous Story of Time exhibition at the Queen House, Greenwich, in Millennium year. NB. This lecture will be preceded by our AGM

18 May 2007 WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT Dr Judith Bronkhurst

Holman Hunt was one of the founders of the famous Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848), and the only one of the group who remained loyal to its principles of ‘truth to nature’. Pictures such as The Hireling Shepherd and The Scapegoat and are among the outstanding masterpieces of Victorian art. The Light of the World, the image of Christ, lantern in hand, knocking on the door of the soul, became the single most popular and influential religious image of its time. Dr Bronkhurst is the author of a magisterial two-volume catalogue raisonné of Hunt’s work, published in 2006.

22 June 2008 ‘SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED’: PAINTINGS OF PRIVATE LONDON GARDENS, 1750-1950 Christine Lalumia

A lecture on middle-class town gardens as seen through the eyes of contemporary artists. Our lecturer, who is deputy director of the Geffrye Museum, conceived, researched and planned the museum’s period garden rooms. She was also involved in the creation of the award-winning herb garden in the grounds (1992). More recently she co-curated the Geffrye’s Home and Garden exhibitions, which have looked at representations of domestic spaces in paintings from 1675 to the present day; the fourth in the series (1960 – present day) closes on 3 February 2008.

For more information please email: events@friendsofkenwood.org.uk