Host: National Gallery
Date: June 7th to July 12th
From the invention of the steam locomotive to the abolition of the slave trade, the 19th century was an age of unprecedented cultural, political, and social change.
Learn how this period of experimentation, discovery and industrialisation challenged the existing order of society and changed the prevailing definitions of art.
This six-week course explores how concerns around modernity and tradition, popular and high culture, social class and gender, and race and ethnicity, influenced both the artists and collectors of this new age.
Each week we examine a theme that defined the age and explore its impact on paintings in the National Gallery and beyond, with a focus on Delacroix, Constable, Millais, Monet, Morisot, Van Gogh and others.
