Event date: Tuesday 30 September 2025
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In his Melencolia, Dürer depicts an artist as a brooding angel; Sir Thomas Lawrence described himself as a ‘mill-horse’. Which was it? From the Renaissance to Modernism, what sort of people became artists? How did their profession work and how was it regarded? Were they misunderstood in their lifetime or is it we who misunderstand them today? Join Desmond Shawe-Taylor to explore these questions, concentrating on artists pre-1900 and looking at every aspect of their careers with a wide variety of examples.