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GERMAN RENAISSANCE SCULPTORS IN STONE AND LIMEWOOD: FROM SLUTER TO RIEMENSCHNEIDERDate: 8 March 2017Time: 10.30am–3.30pm Venue: Art Workers’ Guild, as before Tutor: Clare Ford-WilleCost: £34 (inc. coffee & biscuits)SCO: Judith Leon, as beforestudycourses.gla@gmail.com The study day will be an opportunity to explore the work of highly individual German sculptors, who at fi rst worked in teams, decorating late medieval cathedrals such as Prague and Ulm. They were then followed by outstanding Renaissance masters, such as Pacher, Riemenschneider and Stoss, who developed the great carved limewood winged altarpieces of the late 15th century.FROM SCROLL TO BOOK – BOOKS AND READERS IN EUROPEAN ART AND SCULPTUREDate: 17 March 2017Time: 10.30am–3.30pm Venue: Art Workers’ Guild, as before Tutor: Clare Ford-WilleCost: £34 (inc. coffee & biscuits)SCO: Rosemary Baldwin, 24 Speer Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey KT7 0PW, email: rosemary@baldwins24.co.uk This study day will explore how and why people, from the 12th century to the 21st century in European art, are depicted with books or reading. In medieval art, books or scrolls appear in the hands of prophets and saints. Later on, during the Renaissance, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BETutor: Margaret KnightCost: £27.50 (no coffee)SCO: Jenny Mulholland, 16 Landford Close, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 1NG, email: jenny.mulholland@live.comAt the north-eastern end of the Adriatic lies Friuli Venezia Giulia, a cluster of Italian provinces sandwiched between the Alps and the coast and bordered by Slovenia. This tiny area has seen the rise and fall of several empires.Its history is unique and, as this study day will show, has left in evidence art and architecture which can be found nowhere else. ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS IN DEPTH: GHIRLANDAIODate: 11 April 2017Time: 10.30am–3.30pm Venue: Art Workers’ Guild, as before Tutor: Clare Ford-WilleCost: £34 (inc. coffee & biscuits) SCO: Judith Leon, as before studycourses.gla@gmail.comGhirlandaio is both a consolidator and an innovator. His work marks the culmination of late 15th-century Florentine art and, at the same time, he pioneered new ideas of subject and technique. The day will be an opportunity to study his art and his infl uence, not least upon his pupil, Michelangelo. Hampshire & Isle of WightTRAVELLERS’ TALES: FROM THE QUEEN OF SHEBA TO THE 1920S RIVIERA BY WAY OF VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC (THREE STUDY DAYS)Time: 10am–3pmVenue: Walton Suite, Guildhall, Winchester Price: £37 per day (inc. coffee and a fi nger buffet lunch) Contact: Barbara Arthure, Thyme Cottage, Hillway Road, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, PO35 5PJ. Tel: 01983 872902, email: barbara.studydays@gmail.comBRITISH EXPLORATION AND VOYAGER ARTDate: 27 February 2017 Lecturer: James Taylor Captains James Cook and Matthew Flinders led ground-breaking voyages of exploration to the South Pacifi c across the books begin to appear even more frequently. By the 19th century, with more leisure and education, men, women and children all appear ‘lost in a book’.THREE MEDIEVAL WOMEN: QUEENS AND PATRONSDate: 30 March 2017Time: 10.30am–3.30pm Venue: Art Workers’ Guild, as before Tutor: Sally DormerCost: £34 (inc. coffee & biscuits)SCO: Rosemary Baldwin, as before, email: rosemary@baldwins24.co.ukMedieval women are often virtually invisible as patrons – their ability to operate independently were controlled by the interests of male relatives. The trio of female patrons who provide the focus of this study day are spectacular exceptions to this rule: Galla Placidia c392–450, Empress Consort; Eleanor of Aquitaine c1122–1204, Queen of France and England; and Jeanne d’Evreux c1310–1371, Dowager Queen of France.LOST EMPIRESDate: 7 April 2017Venue: Society of Antiquaries, LECTURERS’ NEWSWe are deeply saddened to report that Ann Gore has passed away. Ann retired at the end of last year after 15 years in the Directory, lecturing on furniture, interiors and gardens.Above: St Vitus Cathedral in Prague is an example of High Gothic, as explored by Greater London AreaEDUCATION: COURSES www.nadfas.org.uk NADFAS REVIEW / WINTER 2016 21