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Art Tours
From the most famous and celebrated galleries in the world, such as the Uffizi, Prado and the Hermitage, to countless lesser known gems, our art history tours examine many protagonists and periods in the history of art and indeed civilization, from Art in Madrid to Art on the Côte D’Azur, Crivelli & Lotto to Bernini & Borromini and from Dark Age Brilliance to Baroque & Rococo. Our award-winning, meticulously-planned small group art history tours visit Europe and the USA. These art history holidays are led by expert lecturers, chosen for their companionability and communication skills as well as their scholarship.
Leonardo & Michelangelo
- A new tour for 2012
- A survey in Milan, Florence and Rome of works by the two Florentine masters
- Includes a major exhibition in Rome (and follows a Leonardo Study Day in London)
Connoisseur's Rome
- Concentrates on places which are difficult to access or private.
- Out-of-hours visits to the Sistine Chapel and the Galleria Borghese.
- Content mainly Renaissance and Baroque.
Music in Berlin
- Excellent collections of fine and decorative arts and first rate architecture.
- Accompanied both by a musicologist and an art historian to lead walks and visits.
- Includes tickets to Eugen Onegin, Marriage of Figaro and Masked Ball, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance
- Best place for an art-history tour – highly influential art, wonderful architecture.
- The Renaissance occupies centre stage; mediaeval and other periods are not ignored.
- Smaller group than usual.
Deserts and Oases
- Traverse the vast deserts west of the Nile and visit verdant oases which are almost unchanged.
- There are many archaeological remains scattered through the desert; there is also time in Cairo, Alexandria and Luxor.
- Most travel is by modern-day caravan: new 4x4s with an accompanying desert chef.
The Art History of Venice
- Wide-ranging survey of art and architecture with an emphasis on the Renaissance.
- Private after-hours visit to San Marco.
- Avoids the crowds of busier months, lower maximum number than most of our tours.
Granada & Córdoba
- Ample time at the key sites of Moorish Spain: the Alhambra in Granada and the Mosque in Córdoba, with time also for the lesser-known.
- Visits the Picasso Museum in Málaga and the small Renaissance towns of Úbeda and Baeza.
Sicily
- Covers the whole island, including the main sights and many lesser known ones.
- The whole gamut – Ancient Greek, Roman, mediaeval (particularly Norman), Renaissance, Baroque and later.
- A full tour but carefully paced. Hotel changes kept to a minimum – only three hotels in thirteen days.
Normans in the South
- Splendid Romanesque architecture, largely built by Norman conquerors.
- Also later mediaeval buildings from the Hohenstaufen and Angevin dynasties, with moments of later flamboyant Baroque.
- Attractive town centres and striking raw limestone landscapes.
Gastronomic Andalucía
- Journey south from Las Pedroñeras in La Mancha in a sweeping curve through Andalucía: Ubeda, Baeza, Córdoba, Seville, Jerez, Cádiz, Aracena.
- Surveys the history of the region with its cuisine: Roman, Jewish, Moorish, Christian; from the simplest cooking to the elaborate and contemporary.
- Some of Spain’s greatest monuments are here including the mosque at Córdoba and Seville Cathedral, but also good museums, small towns and spectacular countryside.
This was probably the best organised and most enjoyable holiday I have experienced.
We appreciated the way the lecturer took time to get to know everyone and deal with questions and particular interests.A good balance between free time, sightseeing and lectures. I particularly enjoyed the chance to see Handel’s birthplace.
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