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Above: Explore the history of buildings conservation (Wyvern Area)styles, and discuss why some came to dominate and were constantly revived.South West ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF BERLIN AND DRESDEN Date: 17 November 2016 Time: 10am–3.15pmVenue: The Best Western Hotel, Blundell’s Road, Tiverton EX16 4DB Lecturer: Eveline Eaton Price: £36 (inc. coffee and a two-course hot lunch) Contact: Dr David Yates, Vexford Court, Higher Vexford TA4 3QF, tel: 01984 656735, email: yatesdavid135@gmail.comFor centuries, Berlin and Dresden have been the cultural heart of what is now modern Germany. The upheavals of the mid-20th century and the immense destruction of both cities in the last war have rebounded with great restorations of the art and architecture. Come and study what was lost in the past and what has since been introduced. AM I MISSING SOMETHING? (FIVE STUDY DAYS)Date: January to March 2017 Time: 10am–3.30pm (approx)Venue: Exeter, Plymouth TauntonLecturers: Geri Parlby and Jeni Fraser Price: £130 for fi ve days These study days will be investigating the hidden meanings behind all forms of art, including paintings, stained glass and sculpture. For more information, see the Area website www.nadfasswarea.org.uk from September 1.WessexWORLD RELIGIONS: THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF SOME OF THE WORLDÕS MAJOR FAITHS (FIVE STUDY DAYS)Dates: 12 October and 10 November 2016, 11 January, 8 February and 22 March 2017Time: 10.15am–3pmVenue: Market Lavington Community Hall, St Mary’s Road, Market Lavington, Devizes SN10 4DG Lecturers: Sally Dormer; Jane Angelini; Clare Ford-Wille; Zara Fleming; James Allan Price: £28 per day (inc. tea/coffee and light lunch with glass of wine)Contact: Julie Price, tel: 01380 816510, email: j_m_price@btinternet.com; or Jenny Lyall, tel: 01672 513524, email: lantern65@uwclub.net All religions need buildings where adherents can gather which are usually better constructed and last longer than their domestic equivalent. Likewise religious artefacts are often well preserved. This series of study days seeks to explore some aspects of both which complement the knowledge we get from the liturgies. West MidlandsTHE ART AND SCIENCE OF THE LUNAR SOCIETY Date: 18 October 2016 Time: 10.30am–3.45pm Venue: The Guildhall, Lichfi eld WS13 6LU Lecturer: Sally Hoban Price: £32Contact: Margaret Locke, Church Farmhouse, Astley SY4 4BP, e-mail: margaret@mlocke.co.uk. Application forms from: westmidlands.nadfas.net The members of the Lunar Society were both artists and scientists, whose legacy of experimentation in the late 18th/early 19th centuries helped to shape the modern industrial world. We discuss the relationship between art and science in the Lunar Circle, including some of the women connected with it, ending the afternoon in Erasmus Darwin’s House and Lichfi eld Cathedral Close. WyvernBEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUMS: CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION IN OXFORD(THREE STUDY DAYS)Time: 10.30am–3.30pmVenue: Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PHLecturers: specialists from the Ashmolean Museum Toby Kirtley and Jude Barrett; and Philip VenningCost: £32 per day (inc. coffee & biscuits and light lunch)Contact: Susan Williams, tel: 01235 522898, email: wyvernsd@gmail.comCONSERVATION STORIESDate: 25 January 2017An introduction to the history of current thinking on conservation techniques and ethics followed by three ‘Conservation Stories’: preparing Raphael‘s drawings for exhibition, techniques in textile conservation and conserving the Wellby Collection. Includes a guided visit to specifi c galleries. PAPER, PAINTING AND INSCRIPTIONS Date: 21 February 2017Conservation of paintings and drawings; the use of technology by the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project to decipher inscriptions on stone and metal objects; and the restoration of the Ashmole portrait and its Grinling Gibbons frame, plus the investigation of Burges’s painted 19th-century Great Bookcase. BUILDINGSDate: 30 March 2017Explore the history/philosophy of buildings conservation; the restoration of the New Bodleian Library (Weston Library), its needs and those of the collections it now houses; and a look at the Museum’s 2009 transformation including a new wing, and galleries linked by the theme ‘Crossing Cultures, Crossing Time’.Images: Daphnis et Chloe (1912) stage design by Leon Bakst; Blue Mosque; Radcliffe Camera, Oxford – all Shutterstock.22 NADFAS REVIEW / AUTUMN 2016 www.nadfas.org.ukEDUCATION: COURSES