Leighton: Follower and Breaker of Rules

Frederic, Lord Leighton, was a bastion of the Establishment and Academic Art in the later 1800s, but he was also an experimental artist who explored the possibilities of the radical Aesthetic Movement which adopted the critic Walter Pater’s idea that ‘All the Arts aspire to the condition of music’. We shall look at his Academic Paintings, his Aesthetic Movement works as well as his pioneering work in raising the status of the decorative arts, in particular by collecting Islamic tiles which we see so beautifully displayed in his purpose-built studio-home – itself a work of art.

Image: Mrs Elinor Guthrie – Frederic, Lord Leighton (Wikiart)

Image gallery: Study for Solitude – Frederic, Lord Leighton (Wikimedia - Gutenberg Project)

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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Ms Sarah Ciacci

Sarah Ciacci has an MA in History of Art (Late 19th century French Painting and 20th Century Art) from University College London. She has been a Blue Badge Guide for London since 2008, specialising in art, museums and galleries, so relevant tours and visits for talks can be arranged. Since 2008 she has trained Blue Badge Guides in the National Gallery and is an art lecturer for trainee guides in Tate Britain, Tate Modern and for a period the National Portrait Gallery. She is a gallery educator and Adjunct Faculty at Richmond University (since 2008) teaching the History of British Art, the History of Museums in London and the History of London, and runs regular courses and independent lectures on a variety of art historical periods.

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