Leicester Decorative and Fine Arts Society
A member of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies
Past Visits & Study Days
3 day Trip -
Monday leaving Leicester at 8am to visit Bath, to see the Roman Baths using an audio guide and perhaps some time for looking around Bath. Then on to the Ramada City Centre Hotel in Bristol.
Tuesday visiting Bristol City Museum, with two 30 minute talks on Bristol Blue Glass and Bristol Delft. Followed by a visit to see the SS Great Britain using audio guides for your tour of the vessel.
Wednesday visiting the Bristol Suspension Bridge then continuing for lunch at the American Museum at Claverton Manor with time to see the collections.
Art and Architecture Along the Silk Road -
Lecturer Dr. Angela Smith
Thursday 22 September 2011 Introduction to the Silk Road, the route and its chronology; silk and the traders
Thursday 27 October 2011 Persian-
Thursday 24 November 2011 Islamic Conquest. Art of the Umayyad & Abbasid caliphates.
W
ine & Vine in Art -
Hilary Guise
We follow the story of wine in art from ancient Assyrian art and Greek vase painting, through Rome , France, Italy and Holland to 18th century England and the 19th century French Impressionists. The mutual desire for perfection and beauty creates a natural affinity between the language of art and the poetry of wine.
The wines the lecture (and our menu) will feature are Muscadet sur lie and Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Click here for information on Muscadet sur lie
Click here for information on Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
Visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park -
A day visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, only a short drive up the A1 we will spend the day visiting the award winning Gallery, exploring the grounds – perhaps even visit the Deer Shelter Skyspace by James Turrell.
The sculpture park is set in the picturesque grounds and gardens of a 500 acre, eighteenth
century country estate, and is one of the world’s leading open-
The award winning Visitor Centre provides a warm welcome and a relaxing base to discover impressive architecture. You can browse in the contemporary gift shop and enjoy the food and the stunning views from the restaurant.
After morning coffee, we shall be given a guided ‘Sculpture and Landscape Tour’, after lunch the time will be your own to explore at your leisure.
Click here to visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park webs site
Click here for further information on James Turrell
Visit to the Ashmolean Musum in Oxford -
Visit to Windsor Castle 8 November 2010
To compliment the talk by Oliver Everett on Windsor Castle on 27th October Windsor: Fire, Restoration and the Queen at Windsor we organised a trip to Windsor.
*Day Outings and Visits*
2002 Brodsworth Hall and Southwell Minster
2003 Wightwick Manor and Walsall Art Gallery
2004 Hemingford Grey and Ely Cathedral
2005 Grimsthorpe Castle and Woolsthorpe Manor
2006 Kenwood House
2007 Waddesdon Manor
2008 Tyntesfield
*Long Week-
2002 Holland
2003 Bilbao
2004 Edinburgh
2005 Isle of Wight
2006 Lake District
2007 Cardiff
2008 Chichester
2009 Durham
*Past Study Days*
*2009*
In the Wake of Handel, Leicester
Kings Place, London
*2008*
Boughton House, Northamptonshire
*2007*
Temple Safari, Leicester (repeated March 2008)
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