Titian, The Supper at Emmaus, c.1534 oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris, © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) Stéphane Maréchalle
Charles I‘s art collection was one of the most extraordinary and influential ever assembled in England. The Royal Academy’s exhibition Charles I: King and Collector will unite for the first time since the seventeenth century some of its greatest treasures.
This course of lectures will discuss Charles I’s acquisitions and commissions, the connoisseurship within court circles, the organization of the collection in Whitehall, the role of Henrietta Maria and the recovery of works of art by Charles II.
Details
Course Organiser
Sarah Bowles
Tuesday 13 March
10.30am
Charles I’s Collection and its Display
Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures and co-curator of the exhibiton at the Royal Academy of Arts
12.00noon
Courtiers, Agents and Experts
Jeremy Wood, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Nottingham
1.00pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Van Dyck, Titian and Charles I
Per Rumberg, Royal Academy of Arts and co-curator of the exhibition
Tuesday 20 March
10.30am
Mantegna’s “Triumph”: Antiquity, History and Artistic Invention
Dr Guido Rebecchini, Senior Lecturer in Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art
12.00noon
Politics, Patronage and Influence: The Socio-Political Role of Queen Henrietta Maria’s Female Court and Household, 1625-41.
Dr Sara Wolfson, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Canterbury Christ Church University
1.00pm
Lunch
2.30pm
Visit to the exhibition Charles I: King and Collector at the Royal Academy
Tuesday 27 March
10.45am
Meet at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
11.00am
Charles II: Art and Power: An Introduction
11.30am
Visit to the exhibition Charles II: Art and Power at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
This exhibition explores the role of Charles II in the recovery of his father’s collection and how, over a period of twenty- five years, he used art as an expression of power.
Course Organiser
Sarah Bowles
Lecture Venue
The Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11 Chandos Street, London W1