Alongside our set short courses our increasingly popular programme of art history and architectural walks and lecture tours continues to open students to a wealth churches, palaces and treasures in and around London. There are 4 tours and 20 walks covering Classicism, Renaissance and Gothic sites, and summer art history tours abroad to places like Florence, Venice and Rome.
The tours are organized as one, three and five-day courses.
When booking please indicate which tour you wish to take with the course code
Tour 1
1 Africa to the Fall of the Roman Empire
This Course consists of a full day at the British Museum following the development of Classical Art and Architecture from Egypt, Greece and Rome, on to the collapse of the Roman Empire and to Viking Art of the North.
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Tour 2
English Renaissance I
Charlton and Greenwich have a set of buildings, which if viewed chronologically can provide a good picture of the slow assimilation of Renaissance Architecture into England. From the eccentric efforts at St Luke’s Charlton and Charlton House to the clarity of the Queen’s House and on to the Baroque pile that is the Royal Naval Hospital, with the superb High Georgian interior of the Chapel.
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Tour 3
Adam and Chambers
Osterley Park, though started by William Chambers was completed by Robert Adam and has the finest and most complete set of state rooms near London. The house contains its original furniture standing on the original carpets in the very positions Adam intended. Syon House was never completed but that part designed by Adam presents a perfect processional series of great rooms.
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Tour 4
The English Renaissance Banqueting House & the Queen’s House Greenwich
On this tour we will start at the Banqueting House, a fragment of James I’s unbuilt palace, and travel by boat on the Thames to see the Queen’s House at Greenwich. These two, both superb buildings of their time by Inigo Jones, are the earliest buildings in the Italian Renaissance style in England,Chapel by James Athenian Stuart.
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