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This series of art history lectures explores five exhibitions whose impact reached far beyond the galleries in which they were staged. Spanning different countries, different centuries and very different purposes, each became a landmark event that shaped public opinion and influenced the way art and cultural heritage were understood. Some introduced audiences to extraordinary discoveries or previously unseen masterpieces; others challenged accepted ideas, reflected political ideologies, or visualised the loss to the nation of its own cultural heritage. In every case, the exhibitions became part of a much larger story than the works they contained. Together they demonstrate that exhibitions can preserve or disperse, educate or provoke, celebrate or condemn, and, on occasion, transform the way we understand our history, our identity and our cultural inheritance.

Friday 25 September
Treasures of Tutankhamun
Speaker: Dr, Conny Bailey
Art work: Selection from the Egyptian Collection

Friday 2 October
Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857
Speaker: Dr. Miriam Gill
Art work: Antonioni Bellucci, Diana

Friday 9 October
Degenerate Art
Speaker: Dr. Conny Bailey
Art work: Marie Laurencin, Paul Eluard

Friday 16 October
Manet and the Post Impressionists
Speaker: Dr. Miriam Gill
Art work: Ben Mathews, Village on a Hill

Friday 23 October
Destruction of the Country House
Speaker: Dr. Conny Bailey
Art work: George Clark of Scaldwell, Northamptonshire Delineated 100 Houses

Artworks and speaker details are correct at the time of publishing but may be subject to change.

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