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MEDIEVAL OBJECTS OF USE III – FROM BAPTISM TO BURIAL: EARLY MEDIEVAL ENTRANCES AND EXITSDate: 21 June 2017Venue: Art Workers’ Guild (as before)Tutor: Dr Sally DormerTime: 10.30am–3.30pmCost: £34 (inc. coffee)SCO: Rosemary Baldwin, 24 Speer Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey KT7 0PW, email: rosemary@baldwins24.co.ukThe liturgical rites of baptism and burial in the early medieval church prompted the production of splendid monuments, decorated with functionally appropriate iconography. The trio of lectures in this study day will examine the baptistries, baptismal fonts and tomb monuments produced in England and France, Germany and Italy from 300–1200 to accompany these spiritually theatrical entrances into, and exits, from life.SAMUEL PALMER AND HIS FOLLOWERS: MYSTIC VISIONS OF ENGLISH LANDSCAPEDate: 22 June 2017Time: 10.30am–3.30pmVenue: The Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BFTutor: Clare Ford-WilleCost: £34 (coffee & biscuits)SCO: Judith Leon (as before), studycourses.gla@gmail.comAn artist of precocious talent, Samuel Palmer was inspired by Blake and Turner and yet developed a unique and very individual landscape vision of his own, nurtured by his early experience of the rounded hills and valleys near Shoreham. His contemporaries and followers, such as Calvert, Linnell and Varley could not quite capture the quintessential essence of his work.LIFE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN 19TH- & 20TH-CENTURY ARTDate: 7 July 2017Time: 10.30am–3.30pmVenue: Art Workers’ Guild (as before)Tutor: Valerie Woodgate Cost: £34 (coffee & biscuits)SCO: Tricia Savours (as before), email: psavours@gmail.com Society and attitudes have changed more in the last 200 years than in the previous 2,000, and as society and attitudes change so does art. This study day compares the way in which 19th- and 20th-century artists responded to the modern worldof politics, social unrest, migrating populations, wars and everyday life.ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS IN DEPTH: DÜRERDate: 31 July 2017Venue: Art Workers’ Guild (as before)Tutor: Clare Ford WilleTime: 10.30am–3.30pmCost: £34 (inc. coffee)SCO: Judith Leon (as before), studycourses.gla@gmail.comOne of the key fi gures in European painting and the graphic arts at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, Dürer did much to raise the status of the northern artist. The study day will explore his extraordinary career north and south of the Alps as draftsman, painter and printmaker.South West FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE REAL: THE ART OF NORTH AMERICADate: 22 November 2017Time: 10am–3.30pm Venue: The Best Western Hotel, Tiverton, Devon EX16 4DB Lecturer: Frank WoodgatePrice: £36 (inc. coffee and a hot two-course lunch)Contact: Sheila Hughes, tel: 01395 516373 or email: sheilaswstudydays@gmail.com See www.nadfasswarea.org.uk for an application formFollow the progress of American art, starting at the time of the early American settlers at the end of the 18th century, through the 19th century and into the development of modern art in the 20th century.West Mercia CELEBRATING THE 900TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY OF ST MARY, CIRENCESTERDate: 3 May 2017Time: 9.45am–4pmVenue: Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire Tutors: Dr Dominic Bellenger, Dr David Robinson and local historiansPrice: £35 (inc. coffee and lunch)Contact: Booking forms at www.coriniumdfas.org.uk or by post sending a sae to Gill Scott, Rivendell, Meadow Way, South Cerney GL7 6HY, email: gillscott50@gmail.com. Closing date for applications: 27 April 2017The day will comprise lectures on the history of the abbey from its founding in 1117 to its dissolution in 1539, detailing what life was like for the canons and lay helpers. It includes an opportunity to visit the Corinium Museum to see four of the 12th-century illustrated manuscripts which are being loaned to the museum by the Oxford colleges and Bodleian Library, on display in Cirencester for the fi rst time since 1539.Images: Shutterstock; Bodley 284 f.1r, courtesy of Andrew Dunning, copyright Bodleian Library. Above: Medieval manuscripts from Cirencester Abbey are explored in a West Mercia study day24 NADFAS REVIEW / SPRING 2017 www.nadfas.org.ukEDUCATION: COURSES