Talk – Figurative to Abstract Art (talk 1) with Alice Foster (at the Museum & online)

The first in our series of three talks on Figurative to Abstract Art looks at Medieval & Renaissance Frescoes

Onsite and online talk

With Alice Foster, art historian

This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Book your ticket here:

https://www.ashmolean.org/event/figurative-to-abstract-art-talk-1-medieval-to-renaissance-frescoes

The great fresco cycles of the Medieval and Renaissance periods are discussed in the first of Alice Foster's series of talks which explore the progression of figurative to abstract art through history. She will look to examples of Giotto in Padua and Pinturicchio in Siena, when clear storytelling was vital in the visual arts to assist those who could not read.

These comprehensive narratives, designed to fill a whole chapel, would cover the life of a saint, or that of someone who was being celebrated for his good works. Extraneous detail was not necessary, nor was complicated symbolic content.

Other talks in the series
18 Mar: Talk 2: Munch & Picasso
25 Mar: Talk 3: Kandinsky to Mondrian

Part of our Create & Transform season of events.

You may also like the following events from Ashmolean Museum:

• Next Sunday, 22nd June, 03:00 pm, Change Makers Tour (Sunday 22 June 2025) in Oxford

Also check out other Arts events in Oxford.