Lydia is an experienced lecturer and presenter.

Lydia offers single lectures, courses and study days, on-line and in-person.

Past talks and courses include:


A Re-imagined Renaissance: the villas and collections of the Anglo-American community in 19th Century Florence
What is the Renaissance?
The Art and Architecture of Venice and the Veneto
Perugia: a Lost Renaissance City
Introduction to the Art of the Italian Renaissance
The Beastly Renaissance: Animals in Renaissance Art
Urbino: Ideal Renaissance City
Sojourn in Mantua
The Small Renaissance
The Renaissance in Umbria
The Renaissance Home
Painting Kent:Picturing a County from Tudor Knole to Tracey Emin’s Margate
Wrotham Pottery
Art, Love and Marriage in Renaissance Italy
The Divine Michelangelo
Raphael: draftsman, painter, architect and designer

A podcast series, The Small Renaissance, is currently in production.

Lydia has also taught seminars and lectures for undergraduate and masters level students.