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Gavin Plumley: John Singer Sargent - The Private Radical  Whether drawing duchesses or portraying princes, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was high society’s leading portraitist. Flaunting a consummate technique, his luxurious canvases mirrored his subjects’ wealth. Yet beneath the dazzling veneer of works such as Madame X, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and Lady Agnew of Lochnaw...

Ludlow Lectures Spring Series 2025 – Restoring Pitchford Hall

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Pitchford Hall is one of the most dramatic looking timber framed buildings in Shropshire and has the oldest tree house in the world in its grounds.  It isn’t just the building that has an interesting story though.  Sold in 1992 by the Colthurst family, it was bought back in 2016 by Rowena Colthurst and her...

Ludlow Lectures Spring Series 2025 – Conserving Ludlow’s Town Walls – a journey involving traders of the lost arts and crafts.

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Anyone exploring Ludlow will find that, hidden at the end of gardens, embedded in buildings and occasionally standing in isolation are the remains of the medieval walls that once surrounded the town and helped to make it what it is today.  Now in need of restoration and preservation, Colin Richards, Chair of the Town Walls...

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Ian Gledhill: Art and Illusion of Theatre Stage Design  The story of stage scenery from Sophocles to Spiderman!  Western style theatre was invented by the Greeks from the 5th century BC onwards, and this talk illustrates the way in which theatre has developed over the last two and a half thousand years, and in particular how...

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Justin Reay: Light and Shade - the Persian Paradise Garden The formal ‘paradise gardens’ of Persia (Iran) are noted for their tranquillity and the respite they offer from the summer heat of the region, combining architectural and arboreal shade with running water in a long tradition. Adopted by Arab traders and rulers, such garden designs became central...

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David Worthington: Sculpture and Architecture  It is likely that the first architects were the stonemasons who built the temples and cathedrals. So sculptors were the architects. In the ancient world the building was a plinth for a sculpture such as the golden Athena on the Parthenon. Over time sculpture became decoration before being stripped by the...

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Steve Kershaw: The Minoans of Crete - the first Europeans At the start of the 20th century Arthur Evans unearthed an entire civilisation on the island of Crete. Its impressive public buildings, advanced social structures and political institutions, centred on the vast complex which he dubbed the 'Palace of Minos', showed that European civilisation was as...