Join The Arts Society Henfield for this months talk, presented by Ian Cockburn.
Catalonia has a long and turbulent history of continuous opposition, emphasising always its separate culture and language. Its medieval architecture and art reflect this search for a distinct identity during its early, formative years. They will explore this theme, in Catalan Romanesque architecture, in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona, which contains the most complete collection of 13th to 15th century buildings in Europe, and in the exceptional collection at the National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC), which has the finest group of pre-Giotto, pre-Renaissance painted murals in Europe.
Ian Cockburn, is an art historian with a BA (Birkbeck College) in art history and an MA (Courtauld Institute of Art) in medieval Spanish art history. He is a specialist in nearly 800 years of Moorish occupation and Christian reconquest of medieval Iberia, and founder/director of an art tours company.
Guests welcome £10 on the door. Membership £50. Tea/Coffee at 2.00pm.