Glasgow Antiques and Fine Art Society
June 18, 2025 10:30 am
Sandro Botticelli is now one of the most popular painters of the Italian Renaissance. His beautiful ‘Primavera’ and elegant ‘Birth of Venus’ are amongst the best known images from the Florentine Golden Age, but the times he lived in were volatile and dangerous and his art masked political turmoil and religious unease.
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May 14, 2025 10:30 am
Born in Hong Kong in 1894, Betty Joel, the daughter of the Colonial Secretary, went on to run one of the leading furniture and interior design companies in the inter war years in London.
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April 16, 2025 10:30 am
This is one of the quirkiest lectures you will ever see and is given enthusiastically by a Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star.
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March 12, 2025 10:30 am
This evocative description was applied to one of McTaggart’s early paintings by his close friend and fellow painter Paul Chalmers.
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February 12, 2025 10:30 am
Vauxhall Gardens today are described rather prosaically as ‘a medium sized public park’ in London’s Kennington, but it has a rich history dating back to the 18th century.
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December 18, 2024 10:30 am
From Music Hall to Variety, a journey through two centuries of the popular entertainment of the day.
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November 13, 2024 10:30 am
The story of Spain’s most iconic architect, Antoni Gaudi, from his childhood spent roaming its beaches, forests and mountains, to his final years spent dedicated to the realisation of his ultimate fantasy, the “Sagrada Familia”.
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October 16, 2024 10:30 am
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, social moraliser and occasional writer on art whose career coincided with a critical moment in England’s ceramic history.
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September 18, 2024 10:30 am
Possibly the greatest figure painter of the second half of the 20th century, Lucian Freud also led an extraordinary life from his family’s escape from the Hitler regime in the 1930’s to his colourful and combative life in London.
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September 25, 2024 8:45 am
Visit to the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright to see ‘Eye to Eye’, Sir Henry Raeburn’s portraits exhibition which is on at the Kirkcudbright Galleries, including talk by curator Amanda Harries followed by visit to E.A. Hornel’s Broughton House, studio and garden.
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