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11 November 2026The Father of Modern Painting? A Closer Look at Constable’s Great Landscapes
14 October 2026The Foreign Invention of British Art from Renaissance to Enlightenment
09 September 2026Pierrot Heroes: The Evolution of British Seaside Entertainment
10 June 2026Of Crowns and Coronations
13 May 2026The Artists of Montmartre: The Pilgrims of Babylon
08 April 2026Writers & Relics: A History of Literary Tourism
11 March 2026Threads of History: The World of the Bayeux Tapestry
11 February 2026The Golden Age of British Comedy
14 January 2026Koh-i-Noor: The most famous Diamond in the World
12 November 2025The Art of Marriage in the 15th Century Florence
08 October 2025Music in Art
10 September 2025Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: The Golden Age of Mexican Painting
11 June 2025Marc Chagall: Wandering Jew or Citizen of the world?
14 May 2025The Magic of Prague: the City and the Czech Cultural Revival
09 April 2025The Art of Stained Glass
12 March 2025Banksy: Fraud or Genius?
12 February 2025Pre-Raphaelite Women: Madonna's, Magdalen's and the Femme Fatale
08 January 2025Britain's Arts Deco Architecture
04 December 2024Getting Under Their Skins
13 November 2024The Seine Estuary Capturing the 19th Century Imagination
09 October 2024Arts Society Exeter's own Antiques Roadshow
11 September 2024Great Operatic Rivalries: Handbags at Dawn
12 June 2024The World's Most Expensive Art - Where Leonardo meets Picasso
08 May 2024From Sinai’s Heights: Important Icons from St Catherine’s Monastery
10 April 2024The Genius of Robert Adam
13 March 2024The Rijksmusuem in Amsterdam: Rembrandt’s Night Watch and Much, Much More
14 February 2024Wessex Explored: Thomas Hardy’s World Through His Work and the Paintings of Henry Moule and Walter Tyndale
10 January 2024The Art of the Cartoonist
08 November 2023The Borgias: The Most Infamous Family in History
11 October 2023The Two Faces of Russia: Moscow & St Petersburg
13 September 2023T. S. Eliot
14 June 2023August Rodin and 19th Century Sculpture
10 May 2023Treasures of the Turf: The Fine & Decorative Arts of Horse Racing
12 April 2023Cornwall Calling: The Artists of Lamorna Cove 1899-1914
08 March 2023Picasso & Cubism: “Art is a Lie by Which We Understand the Truth” and AGM at 1.55pm
08 February 2023The Opera Singer Phenomenon : How do they make that noise?
11 January 2023Madras & Calcutta: Classical Architecture for the East India Company
02 November 2022Seeing in Monochrome
05 October 2022Holy Poverty and Artistic Magnificence: The Art of Assisi
07 September 2022A Truly Cultured Woman is as Rare as the Phoenix: Life and Work of Isabella D’Este
08 June 2022A Personal Heaven: The Paintings of Stanley Spencer
11 May 2022The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Colour in English garden design-—why gardening can rank as a fine art
13 April 2022COURTLY LIFE IN MANTUA: HUNCHBACKS, DWARVES & GIANTS
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12 January 2022The Dark Side of the Boom: The Mass Faking of the Russian Avant Garde
01 December 2021Angels from the realms of Glory: the Wilton Diptych and the roof of Westminster Hall
03 November 2021"How pleasant to know Edward Lear"
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09 June 2021The Kingdom in the Sun: Sicily
12 May 2021Edouard Manet: A Rebel in a Frock Coat
14 April 2021Exeter Cathedral .
10 March 2021Titian: The First Modern Artist
10 February 2021Hammershoi and the Life of Interiors
13 January 2021Faber & Faber: 90 Years of Excellence in Cover Design - to be delivered by Zoom
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04 November 2020Nicholas Poussin: Rebel and Philosopher
14 October 2020The Art and Meaning of Maps
20 March 2020COVID-19 Cancellation of Current Programme of Lectures
11 March 2020Pevsner in Devon
12 February 2020The Cultural Heritage of the Huguenots
08 January 2020The Making of Landscape Photography
04 December 2019The Recording of Exeter in Art, 1770-1915
06 November 2019Islamic Art: Exploring the Decorative Arts of the Islamic World.
09 October 2019Franz Schubert: The Piano and the Power of Friendship

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The Father of Modern Painting? A Closer Look at Constable’s Great Landscapes Sarah Cove Wednesday 11 November 2026

Describing Constable’s diverse painting methods and illustrated by highly detailed images, his dynamic late works are brought to life in a new and exciting manner.

SADLY NO ZOOM  - due to copyright issues

Image courtesy of : © Sarah Cove ACR, Constable Research Project.