Course: The Renaissance Art History

Two illustrated lectures by a Courtauld graduate on Renaissance painting, from Giotto and Botticelli to Leonardo, Michelangelo, Van Eyck and Holbein.

This History of Art lecture series with Lisa Oxenden-Wray B.A. (Hons), PG Dip., a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, explores the beautiful, divine and technically brilliant paintings of the Italian Renaissance and Northern Europe.

The course traces the development of linear perspective and looks at the Medici commissions, offering insight into the great paintings and artists of the period, with a focus on Giotto, Botticelli, Fra Filippo Lippi, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bronzino, Jan van Eyck and Holbein. It is presented over two illustrated lectures.