In the first of Dido Powell's 2023 art museum tours, the topic is the use of space and clutter in Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite narrative painting.
The second of Dido Powell's 2023 art museum tours will look at how the elements, especially air and water, offer artists a route away from material subjects and three-dimensional reality towards capturing changing light and weather effects in a tangible form.
The third of Dido Powell's 2023 art museum tours will look at how the Greek and Roman myths have been represented in art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century - and the purposes served in using those myths in different periods.
The fourth of Dido Powell's 2023 art museum tours will look at British paintings from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century, examining themes of heroism, martyrdom, triumph, stoicism and leadership.
The fifth of Dido Powell's 2023 art museum tours will look at anti-war art, with themes around atrocity, psychology, the technology of war and the 'Return to Order'.
