Art First Primo Bringing Art to You and You to Art

Leslie Primo currently lectures at the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and teaches a variety of art history courses at Imperial College, London - South Kensington campus, the City Literary, Covent Garden, London and Bishopsgate Institute, Liverpool Street, London, including: An art history survey course called Styles in Art (spanning art from Byzantium to Victorian painting), The Mirror of Nature (looking at 17th Century art and culture), The Renaissance and Beyond, Introduction to the National Galley and Introduction to the National Portrait Gallery, Introduction to Western European Art and many more.

Leslie Primo's lecturing repertoire and subject areas include: Early Renaissance painting, High Renaissance painting, Baroque and Mannerism, 17th, 18th and 19th century artists such as Seurat, Monet and Cézanne, which also encompasses Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

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Art First Primo at Imperial College, London

Introduction to European Art Appreciation

Returning this year is my 20 week Introduction to European Art Appreciation at Imperial College, London. Taught over three terms, it begins on Wednesday 16th October 2013 and ends on Wednesday 19th March, 2014. This introductory course presents an opportunity to explore a wide variety of European art from early Byzantine through to late Victorian and Impressionism. The course aims to encourage in participants a dialogue regarding the varied varieties of art and the appreciation thereof. The structure will be that of a broadly chronological and geographical approach, which will take in key movements, styles and artists, with some classes devoted exclusively to artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and many 

more.

The course begins with the first three weeks devoted to iconography, exploring aspects such
as saints, pagan gods, signs, symbols, meaning and more. Within these first three lessons
we will also look at the application of perspective and colour. Thereafter each week will also
focus on particular movements and periods in European art history, the result being by the
end of the course you will have a broad understanding of art appreciation in a historical and
aesthetic context as well as the confidence to speak knowledgeably and critically about
European art. No prior knowledge of art history is required.

Please find below a brief week-by-week course outline.

SEMESTER ONE:
1. The Iconography of Venus, Cupid and Mars
2. The Iconography of Adorations and Annunciations
3. The Iconography of Saints and Sinners
4. Byzantine to Gothic
5. Medieval and Gothic
6. The Florentine Renaissance
7. The Northern Renaissance
8. The Sienese Renaissance
9. Botticelli

SEMESTER TWO:
10. Leonardo
11. Raphael
12. Michelangelo
13. The Venetian Renaissance
14. Baroque
15. Northern Baroque
16. Art in Spain
17. Art in France
18. The Dutch Golden Age
19. Neo-Classicism
20. The Victorian Age to the Modern Age

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Art First Primo at the Bishopsgate Institute this Summer

 Summer School - Leonardo da Vinci: Life & Work

Summer is here and so are my Summer Schools.  Separating the fact from the fiction regarding this most enigmatic of artists; all you ever wanted to know about the man himself.  On Saturday 17th August I run my one day Summer School on the life of Leonardo da Vinci.  Running from 10:30 - 16:30, this study day aims to provide the student with an insight into the life of the great Renaissance master, ultimately an understanding of his works through the historical and social context within which this artist worked. The course will look at his early career and training and the stylistic similarities or differences in his works.

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