Personal Favourites: Mastertpieces from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts - in the context of the Image of Black People in Ar by Leslie Primo.

This lecture will explore Leslie's personal favourite paintings from the rich and varied collection of paintings that make up The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Collection.

Beginning with works that as yet still have no artists attributed to them, the lecture will be looking at works as diverse as Botticelli, van Dyck, Aelbert Cuyp from Rubens through to Degas and Gauguin. The lecture will place these works in that context of those from national collections; drawing parallels and contrasts.

This lecture will not only revel in the exquisite details in some of these works with detailed explanations of the meanings, but it will also look at a hidden aspect of these works and that is the appearance and function of black figures in these Masterpieces.

Leslie will take the audience on a journey through this Collection that will make you want to look again at this marvellous gallery of Masterpieces.

Leslie Primo ia an Art Society Accreditted lecturer.

How to book this event:

Members do not need to book.

Non-members are very welcome and can pay at the Door.

If you are not yet a Member please email rupert.machenry@ntlworld.com to book a place. Non-members pay £15 which is refunable if you subsequently join the Society.

Tea, coffee and buscuits are served after the lecture to give us all a chance to chat with each other and the Lecturer.

Doors open at 13.30 and the Lecture starts promptly at 14.00hrs

There is limited parking available at the Hall but NO PARKING against the stone walls surrounding the car park - these spaces are 'let' to the hospital opposite.

DOCUMENTS

Membership form Arts Soc 2026 -27.docx

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Leslie Primo

Art historian Leslie Primo is an author, broadcaster, and graduate of Birkbeck, University College, with an MA in Renaissance studies. He lectured at the National Gallery, London for 18 years, and has appeared on the BBC speaking on Michelangelo and presenting on JMW Turner. He contributed to the Oxford Companion Guide to Black British History, and has a forthcoming Thames & Hudson book called, The Foreigners that Invented British Art. He currently teaches art history at Imperial College, and lectures for the Royal Academy, London.

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