Glasgow Antiques and Fine Art Society
October 21, 2026 11:00 am
Andrew Graham-Dixon October 21, 2026 @ 11.00am Please note the later start time of 11.00am for this talk Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Delft, Rotterdam, and beyond, Andrew offers a dramatic reassessment of Johannes Vermeer – not as the isolated genius of legend, but as a painter deeply embedded in the radical, intellectual, […]
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November 25, 2026 10:30 am
Lachlan Goudie November 25, 2026 @ 10.30am How do you paint a masterpiece? Lachlan Goudie seeks the answer by exploring how twenty of the greatest paintings in human history were created, from a blank surface to the finishing brushstroke. Beginning at the dawn of civilization with prehistoric cave paintings and ending with the arrival of AI, […]
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December 16, 2026 10:30 am
Tony Rawlins December 16, 2026 @ 10.30am The Three Kings is a light-hearted look at what we think we know about them – how many of them were there, were they men or women or both, or actually kings? Where did they come from? Why do they feature in our Nativity plays and crib scenes, when […]
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February 17, 2027 10:30 am
Amanda Herries February 17th, 2027 @ 10.30am The serenity, asymmetry and control of a Japanese garden is a seductive contrast to Western symmetry, form and free growth. Even at the time of Japan’s self-imposed isolation, 1639-1854, information reached the West about trees, plants, flowers and designs through illustrations on imported porcelain, lacquer and screens. Once […]
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March 17, 2027 10:30 am
Dr Paul Bahn March 17, 2027 @ 10.30am The earliest art known to the world, dating to c.40,000 to 12,000 years ago, is found primarily in western Europe and takes the form of portable art objects, engravings, drawings and paintings on cave walls and in the open air. This is the story of the art’s […]
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April 21, 2027 10:30 am
Professor Nick Pearce April 21, 2027 @ 10.30am On 16th June 1939, a collection of Chinese Blue and White porcelain was put up for sale by Sotheby’s in London. The vendor was Major L. F. Hay of Bath, and the lots – all forty-two of them – were billed as ‘The Well-Known Collection of Rare Early […]
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May 19, 2027 10:30 am
Dr Tobias Capwell May 19, 2027 @ 10.30am Armour was both equipment for fighting and expressive art and by the sixteenth century, the art of the armourer in southern Germany had attained unrivalled technical sophistication, artistic conception, and decorative richness. The centre of the German Renaissance armour world was Augsburg, led by the Helmschmid […]
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June 16, 2027 10:30 am
Pippa Stephenson-Sit June 16th, 2027 @ 10.30am © CGS CIC Glasgow Museums & Libraries Collections In 1952, Glasgow bought one of Salvador Dalí’s best known, and certainly the most important painting of his late career. 75 years on, the painting is recognised as one of the museums’ greatest treasures, but at the time this purchase […]
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September 23, 2026 10:30 am
Daniel Robbins September 23, 2026 @ 10.30am The achievements of designer and architect George Walton (1867–1933) have too often been eclipsed by his contemporary Charles Rennie Mackintosh. From a gifted artistic family, Walton not only established a flourishing business in Glasgow, but went on to develop a successful career in London, carrying out a wide […]
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June 17, 2026 10:30 am
This talk may raise some eyebrows, but it is hoped that those who like Rococo might see Pop Art differently, and those who like Pop Art might look at Rococo again.
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