Cotton Pickers and Cosmonauts - Chris Aslan Alexander gives a free Art Society lecture

Jacqueline is delighted to launch the The Arts Society Connected. This talk is a section of a longer lecture outlining Velázquez’s arrival in Madrid from Seville and his gradual rise at Court. In this lecture Jacqueline pays attention to one painting, probably the artist’s most famous ‘Las Meninas’ 1656, which she unravels for the viewer and considers the possible reasons why he painted it and what he hoped to gain from it. Filmed by the wonderful Natural Light Films.

In this online lecture, historian and writer Sarah Dunant who has written a number of novels set in this period, looks at two artistic masterpieces by two of Venice most famous artist to tell the story of city dressed and undressed.