Botticelli talk in London

Botticelli – Christian or Pagan?
LINDA PROUD
Thursday 1 July
Chair Dr Joseph Milne
Venue The Lincoln Centre
Doors open at 6.15pm
Lecture begins promptly at 7pm
Concludes 8.15pm promptlyAdmission
£5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions

Details from www.temenosacademy.org.uk

Trip to Florence

The Oxford-based travel company, Learn Italian, is arranging a study week in Florence 15-21 November 2010. It will be led by Patrick Doorly, who is currently giving an excellent series of lectures at Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education on Virtu in Six Renaissance Masters. The trip will be devoted to studying Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Luca della Robbia and Lorenzo Ghiberti.

If you are interested, contact martin.gray9@btopenworld.com or by phone on 01865 860984 for more details.

Welcome to the Renaissance

The three novels of The Botticelli Trilogy cover the years 1470-1498 in Florence and tell the story of a boy growing to manhood in the age of Lorenzo the Magnificent. He is caught up in the Pazzi Conspiracy, a visitor to Botticelli's workshop when the Primavera is being painted, a fledgling scribe at the time when the printing press is coming into use. It is a story of our time set in the past.

You will find more details and extra material on www.godstowpress.co.uk or www.lindaproud.com for further details.