2012-2013 season: Great Art Collections and CollectorsOur lectures take place the second Thursday of the month at 8pm, with coffee & biscuits from 7.30pm, in the Sixth Form Centre at JAGS (see 'Where we meet'). Click here to see the lectures that have already taken place this season.
NEW! Use our feedback tool to give your views on the latest lecture. Thurs 13 June 2013: BANKS, BURGUNDY & PIRACYJoin us from 7pm to celebrate DDFAS's 40th anniversary! BANKS, BURGUNDY AND PIRACY: the Fifteenth Century Artists of Bruges
The 15th century was the golden age of the Northern Renaissance featuring the patronage and collection of art by noble families, bankers, merchants and the Church. Bruges was the economic powerhouse of Europe, with Flanders part of the house of Burgundy. The stories of banking, piracy and painting have exciting parallels with our own times. Christopher Herbert was until recently Bishop of St. Albans and a member of the House of Lords. He has lectured at the National Gallery, Courtauld Institute, King’s College London, Westminster Abbey and Rikkyo University in Japan. Thurs 11 July 2013: TWENTIETH CENTURY WOMEN COLLECTORSTWENTIETH CENTURY WOMEN COLLECTORS: their Influence and Legacies
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Some of the leading collectors of the past hundred years have been women, from Louisine Havemeyer who brought impressionism to America, to Peggy Guggenheim, whose museum is enshrined in the Venetian palazzo that was her home. Marina Vaizey is a broadcaster, exhibition curator, journalist, art critic and lecturer. Her publications include 100 Masterpieces of Art, The Artist as Photographer and Art - the Critics' Choice.