Our annual winter art talks series in January and February of 2024, was:
Arran’s Art of Florence: a personal selection
and here is a little short video we made back in November of 2023, to promote those talks.
The talks concluded in early March, 2024. You can however, purchase the slide talks as videos, each one a richly-illustrated slide-talk, with hundreds of images, artifacts and details, and of course, voice-over narration, interpreting the amazing art of Rome. There are eight talks in total, and they are available in two blocks of 4 talks each.
Each block of 4 is €25 plus a small booking fee. (approx 6%)
Free Sample Talk(s)
If you’d like to see a free sample talk, then you will know within 5 minutes whether our style and approach is something that appeal to you. You can find and book one of free sample/ introduction talk, by pressing the green, onscreen button that says Buy Now, then navigate to Art Talks, the choose one of the free videos available in the menu there, either Rome or Florence.
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Your Speaker.
The annual winter Art Talks are researched, created and presented by art history graduate and teacher Arran Henderson.
Arran is an art history graduate of Oxford Brooks University, and later on, also graduated in Fine Art from NCAD (the National College of Art and Design) in Dublin. He has lived in Italy (primarily Rome) and studied at (inter alia) the University of Rhode Island, Central Saint Martin’s London, and Trinity College Dublin. Arran has taught art and art history at A-Level, has written for the prestigious Irish Arts Review journal and has led walks and talks for many universities and cultural organisations, including Trinity College, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the National Gallery of Ireland. This series on Florence was the fourth year of Arran’s winter online arts talks. Previous years talks have included series on the Veneto, on Florence and the year after Florence (in January and February 2025) Arran gave an 8- talk introduction to the Art of Rome. These talks are also available to buy as videos, also through the green Buy Now button.
Arran leading a recent tour at the National Gallery of Ireland (photo by Trevor O’Reilly).
notes on images:
Header image: the Battkle of San Romano by Paulo Uccello, at the Galleria Uffizi (photo by Arran Henderson).
Lower sequence of images: Annunciation by Leonardo, Uffizi; David by Michelangelo, at the Galleria dell’Accademia.
“a worm’s-eye view” of the Baptistery, Duomo and Campanile, with architecture and sculpture visible by Arnolfo di Cambio, Giotto and Andrea Pisano; a view of the Bargello; Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, at the Uffizi Galleries; the Palazzo Vecchio on Piazza della Signoria.
(all photos by Arran Henderson)