MAUREEN L. ILLE PhD
Tutor / Lecturer / Speaker:
Art History, Painting, Drawing
HOMEPAGE

* Individual Talks *

COURSES:

All lectures are illustrated with slides presented with  PowerPoint.

Contact:
DrMo@ille.co.uk
01427-838619
INDIVIDUAL TALKS with SLIDESHOW
For presentations as a guest speaker, with PowerPoint images
*  These talks are approximately 1 hour, but can be extended if required.
TOPICS:

Medieval Manuscript Illuminations
Titles of talks:

  1. The Making of Illuminated Manuscripts
  2. Bawdy Borders: unexpected images from the edges of holy manuscripts
  3. Illuminating Calendars: an everyday story of country folk
  4. Illuminating Easter: the Easter story in illuminated manuscripts
  5. Illuminating Christmas: the Christmas story in illuminated manuscripts
Hidden Meanings: the iconography of selected paintings:
Titles of talks:
  1. Anon. "The Wilton Diptych" (14thC)
  2. Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait" (15thC)
  3. Botticelli's "Primavera" (15thC)
  4. Vasari's "Temptation of St Jerome" (16thC)
  5. Bronzino's "Allegory of Venus and Cupid" (16thC)
  6. Holbein's "Ambassadors" (16thC)
  7. Poussin's "A Dance to the Music of Time" (17thC)
Popular painted subjects:
Titles of talks:
  1. Painted Flowers - their depiction through the ages
  2. Still-life Painting - its form and function
  3. Art & Illusion: how painters have deceived the eye 
Why, what, where, when, how?
Titles of talks:
  1. The Art of Mosaic
  2. Painting on Walls
  3. A Brief History of Printmaking
  4. What did the Renaissance do for us?
  5. What did the Impressionists do for us?
  6. Whatever did the Modernists do for us?
Sculpture:
Titles of talks:
  1. Ideal Form: the carved figure in ancient European sculpture
  2. Medieval Sculpture - turning away from the Classical
  3. Great Sculptors of the Renaissance and Baroque
  4. Modern Sculpture - new ways and means
Seasonal Talks:
Titles of talks:
  1. The Easter Story in Painting
  2. Illuminating Easter: the Easter story in illuminated manuscripts
  3. Painting the Last Supper
  4. Illuminating Christmas: the Christmas story in illuminated manuscripts
  5. The Christmas Story through Paintings of the National Gallery
  6. Winter Scenes from Medieval through Modern