Dr. Lydia Goodson

Painting Kent - Picturing a county from Tudor Knole to Tracey Emin's Margate for The Arts Society, Tunbridge Wells
2025-06-16 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Trinity Theatre, Church Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1 JP
The county of Kent has been irresistibly attractive to artists from the earliest times. Depictions of Kent have been at the forefront of new artistic movements through the centuries and have been pivotal to the development of English art. This talk takes a pictorial journey through paintings of the county to uncover what attracted painters to Kent and how they chose to depict its places.
Free for members. £10 for guests.

The Renaissance at Home for The Warburg Institute, University of London
2025-05-13 14:00 - 15:30 | ONLINE
A 5 week ONLINE course where you will step into the Renaissance Home and explore the art and the objects of everyday life in early modern Italy.

A short online course of five classes starting May 13th 2025

Open to all

Book your place here:
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renaissance-at-home-short-course-2025

Mighty Madonnas and Wild Women for The Arts Society Holland and Kesteven
2025-04-10 14:00 - 15:30 | GREAT HALE VILLAGE HALL, Little Hale Road, Great Hale, Lincolnshire, NG34 9LH
A lecture for The Arts Society Holland and Kesteven
Thursday 10th April
http://theartssocietyhollandandkesteven.org.uk/lectures.htm

The Art of Courtship for The Arts Society Cotswolds
2025-03-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Warwick Hall, Church Green, Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4RY
This talk explores the customs and etiquette of courtship in Renaissance Italy through the rich legacy of objects made to celebrate and to commemorate love, and the pursuit of love, in a period when extravagant gift-giving and artistic production reached new heights.
For further information see https://www.theartssocietycotswolds.org.uk/lectures.php
