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Raphael and the Nine Secrets of Drawing

Our tutor and author of module 1 Prof Stephen Farthing is giving a talk at the Ashmolean Museum this Wednesday the 7th June 1-2pm, Lecture Theatre Bookings are essential: https://tickets.ox.ac.uk/WebStore/shop/ViewItems.aspx?CG=ash&C=Raphael

Stephen Farthing RA will use nine Raphael drawings to explain and illustrate the nine secrets of drawing. The Lecture will be based on a book – The Nine Secrets and 3,000 years of Drawing – that Farthing started to write during his time in Oxford as the eighth Ruskin Master of Drawing, and is now completing some 25 years later as The Rootstein Hopkins Professor of Drawing at the University of the Arts, London.

The Exhibition Raphael ‘The Drawings’ is on now at the Ashmolean until 3 September.

Learn more about our Art Appreciation Course: www.the-art-institute.com/landing

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Brushstrokes in TIme

By Sylvia Vetta

Weaving real events and the creative minds that called themselves The Stars, Brushstrokes in Time, is a revealing debut novel by Sylvia Vetta.

The Stars, Brushstrokes in Time, is a revealing debut novel by Sylvia Vetta.

In Brushstrokes in Time, Vetta takes the reader back to 1963,when Chairman Mao was still presiding over China but takes us beyond the death of Mao and for the…

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Proper museums have skulls.

At the Ashmolean, Oxford.

#erm #unless it's the museum of baby clothes or something like that #flintknife #The Ashmolean #oxford #museums

Sarcophagus of Ptahhotep, Late Period, 26th Dynasty.

A beautiful thing, unaccountably displayed in a corner between the door and a cleaning storeroom?! He looks OK with it though, the smug bastard.

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Samurai armour, Edo period The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The body of the armour was made during the eighteenth century. It is composed of lacquered iron plates laced together with silk cord. The helmet is older, with an inscription on the interior dating to 1560.

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Medusa's head parade shield, 19th C. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

This piece was originally thought to date from the Renaissance period, as it is an imitation of the work of sixteenth century Milanese armourer Filippo Negroli.

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Coin issued by King Harold Godwinson. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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