Course 18 – Summer School on campus

Monday 7 – Friday 11 July 2025
Dr Lois Oliver
£645

Course description

In a cartoon published in 1855, Honoré Daumier imagined a battle between two rival aesthetic schools in France: ‘Idealism’ appears as an ageing neoclassical nude, wearing an antique helmet, with his palette as a shield, heroically raising his mahlstick as a spear, to defend himself against ‘Realism’, a scruffy figure in rustic clogs, brandishing a small square palette and clumsy paintbrush. The image perfectly encapsulates the artistic and political differences between these two entrenched aesthetic positions, but the real joke is that neither of these veteran combatants is as vigorous as he used to be: both would be vulnerable to a new avant-garde challenger. The French art world witnessed a series of battles as traditionalists grappled with the successive challenges presented by Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.

This course explores the reasons behind the profound innovations in subject matter and technique that characterised the age, and the obstacles faced by avant-garde artists in getting their work exhibited and accepted. We shall explore the work of Ingres, Delacroix, Delaroche, Courbet, Millet, Rousseau, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Morisot, Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

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The Courtauld Gallery presents an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection is on display from 14 February – 26 May 2025.

The exhibition opens with a selection of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists, including �ҴDzⲹ51��ݶ� highly charged Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks (c.1808-12), ��é���������ܱ���51��ݶ� moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank (c.1819-22) and ��dzܰ������51��ݶ� provocative The Hammock (1844).

At the heart of the exhibition are some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including �մdzܱ��dzܲ���-�����ٰܳ���51��ݶ� striking representation of the female performer The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), �Ѳ��Ա��51��ݶ� groundbreaking depiction of modern life Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne. A further highlight is the pair of celebrated paintings by Van Gogh, A Ward in the Hospital at Arles and The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles (1889), which illustrate the hospital where he had been a patient following his earlier mental breakdown and the mutilation of his ear, as seen in Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear in The Courtauld51��ݶ� collection. The two paintings are presented together for the very first time in London at The Courtauld.

The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the most remarkable art museums of its kind, with a collection that ranges from superlative old master paintings and drawings to a fabled group of Impressionist art. Featuring over 200 works of art, the collection was assembled in the first half of the 20th century by Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), whose family was associated with one of the world51��ݶ� leading trading companies. Reinhart bequeathed his collection and house to the Swiss confederation, and it opened as a public museum in 1970 in his beautiful, large villa on the outskirts of Winterthur, close to Zurich, called ‘Am Römerholz’.

Oskar Reinhart was a direct contemporary of Samuel Courtauld, founder of 51��ݶ�. They shared a similar taste in artists and are known to have met. The Oskar Reinhart Collection51��ݶ� close affinities with that of The Courtauld Gallery51��ݶ� permanent collection provide the perfect context to stage this unprecedented exhibition, which brings many of Reinhart51��ݶ� paintings to the United Kingdom for the very first time.

The exhibition51��ݶ� lead sponsor is Griffin Catalyst, the civic engagement initiative of Citadel Founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin.

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition Series has recently been extended to 2028. This collaboration will continue to support the deeply researched and varied exhibitions programme that Kenneth C. Griffin has supported since The Courtauld’s reopening in 2021.

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
14 February – 26 May 2025
The Courtauld Gallery Somerset House, Strand London WC2R 0RN

Opening hours: 10.00 – 18.00 (last entry 17.15)
Temporary Exhibition tickets (including entry to our Permanent Collection and displays) – Weekday tickets from £14; Weekend tickets from £16.
Friends and Under-18s go free. Other concessions available

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The Courtauld Gallery presents an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection is on display from 14 February – 26 May 2025.

The exhibition opens with a selection of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists, including �ҴDzⲹ51��ݶ� highly charged Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks (c.1808-12), ��é���������ܱ���51��ݶ� moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank (c.1819-22) and ��dzܰ������51��ݶ� provocative The Hammock (1844).

At the heart of the exhibition are some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including �մdzܱ��dzܲ���-�����ٰܳ���51��ݶ� striking representation of the female performer The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), �Ѳ��Ա��51��ݶ� groundbreaking depiction of modern life Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne. A further highlight is the pair of celebrated paintings by Van Gogh, A Ward in the Hospital at Arles and The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles (1889), which illustrate the hospital where he had been a patient following his earlier mental breakdown and the mutilation of his ear, as seen in Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear in The Courtauld51��ݶ� collection. The two paintings are presented together for the very first time in London at The Courtauld.

The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the most remarkable art museums of its kind, with a collection that ranges from superlative old master paintings and drawings to a fabled group of Impressionist art. Featuring over 200 works of art, the collection was assembled in the first half of the 20th century by Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), whose family was associated with one of the world51��ݶ� leading trading companies. Reinhart bequeathed his collection and house to the Swiss confederation, and it opened as a public museum in 1970 in his beautiful, large villa on the outskirts of Winterthur, close to Zurich, called ‘Am Römerholz’.

Oskar Reinhart was a direct contemporary of Samuel Courtauld, founder of 51��ݶ�. They shared a similar taste in artists and are known to have met. The Oskar Reinhart Collection51��ݶ� close affinities with that of The Courtauld Gallery51��ݶ� permanent collection provide the perfect context to stage this unprecedented exhibition, which brings many of Reinhart51��ݶ� paintings to the United Kingdom for the very first time.

The exhibition51��ݶ� lead sponsor is Griffin Catalyst, the civic engagement initiative of Citadel Founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin.

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition Series has recently been extended to 2028. This collaboration will continue to support the deeply researched and varied exhibitions programme that Kenneth C. Griffin has supported since The Courtauld’s reopening in 2021.

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Who is the mystery woman revealed by technical imaging underneath Pablo �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� Blue Period portrait?

Painting to be exhibited at The Courtauld Gallery as part of new exhibition The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism.��
Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection, opening 14 February

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An undiscovered painting by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) of a mystery woman, hidden for more than a century beneath one of the very first paintings from the artist51��ݶ� famous Blue Period, has been revealed by conservators at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, using specialist imaging technology to examine the work for the first time.

Conducted in collaboration with the Oskar Reinhart Collection, ‘Am Römerholz’, Switzerland, the unknown artwork was discovered when The Courtauld took x-ray and infrared images of Portrait of Mateu ������á�Ի��� de Soto – a portrait depicting �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� sculptor friend painted in 1901 and one of the earliest examples of the artist51��ݶ� Blue Period – ahead of its display as part of the upcoming exhibition The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition. Goya to Impressionism:��Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection, opening 14 February.��

The Courtauld51��ݶ� analysis of the painting reveals it played an important role at a crucial stage in the young �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� stylistic development, at a time when he was moving away from colourful, Impressionistic paintings towards a distinctly more melancholy artistic style which became the defining phase of his career known as his Blue Period.��

Portrait of Mateu ������á�Ի��� de Soto is emblematic of �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� sombre Blue Period, hailed as a defining moment in his career. Nineteen-year-old Picasso had arrived in Paris from Spain in May 1901 for his first exhibition in the city, which opened at the gallery of the modern art dealer Amboise Vollard the following month. Picasso made a range of paintings for that show in an Impressionistic style, with lively brushwork and bright colour. However, by the Autumn of 1901, when he painted Portrait of Mateu ������á�Ի��� de Soto, Picasso began to change his artistic style to an approach that was more contemplative and sombre, painted in tones of blue.

This Blue Period was inspired in part by the suicide earlier that year of �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� good friend Carlos Casagemas. Picasso took over the rooms where Casagemas had lived in Paris and set up his studio there. Another friend, the young Spanish sculptor Mateu ������á�Ի��� de Soto, arrived in the city in the Autumn of 1901 and was staying in this studio with Picasso where this portrait was made. The painting on the wall in the background of Portrait of Mateu ������á�Ի��� de Soto is one of �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� memorial paintings depicting the burial of Casamegas.��

Infrared and x-ray images beneath the contemplative portrait of de Soto have revealed another figure, a painting of a woman, likely created just a few months earlier. The form of her head, curved shoulders and the fingers can clearly be seen. Wearing a distinctive chignon hairstyle, fashionable in Paris at the time, she bears a resemblance to several paintings of seated women that Picasso made that year, such as Absinthe Dinker (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) and Woman with Crossed Arms (Kunstmuseum, Basel). There is also evidence of a further head at an even lower level in the painting, suggesting it was a much-reworked canvas. She might have been a figure painted in his earlier Impressionistic style, akin to the painting of a woman in shimmering colours called Waiting (Picasso Museum, Barcelona).����

Further research into the painting and detailed analysis could reveal more about the mystery woman, but it is not certain her identity will be established. She may have been a model, a friend or even a lover posing for one of �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� colourful Impressionistic images of Parisian nightlife, or a melancholic woman seated in a bar.����

Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money. However, he also embraced the process of painting one work over another, resisting whitewashing old images in favour of beginning a new figure directly on top of an earlier one. It is as if the portrait of de Soto grew out of the figure of the woman below as one style gave way to another.����������

Kerstin Richter, Director of the Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz,” said: “This is truly a picture of great complexity, revealing its secrets over the years. When Oskar Reinhart acquired it in 1935, it was simply considered to be a portrait of an unknown woodcarver. Now we not only know the personality depicted, his significance in Picasso’s life after the death of his closest friend, but we can also visualise the artistic development process of the young painter layer by layer.”��

Barnaby Wright, Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, said: “We have long suspected another painting lay behind the portrait of de Soto because the surface of the work has tell-tale marks and textures of something below. Now we know that this is the figure of a woman. You can even start to make out her shape just by looking at the painting with the naked eye. �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� way of working to transform one image into another and to be a stylistic shapeshifter would become a defining feature of his art, which helped to make him one of the giant figures of art history. All that begins with a painting like this.”��������������������

Aviva Burnstock, Professor of Conservation at The Courtauld, said: “Specialist imaging technology such as that used by conservators at The Courtauld may allow us to see the hand of an artist to understand their creative process. In revealing this previously hidden figure we can shed light on a pivotal moment in �ʾ�����������51��ݶ� career.”��

The exhibition51��ݶ� lead sponsor is Griffin Catalyst, the civic engagement initiative of Citadel Founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin.����

Book now: /whats-on/exh-goya-to-impressionism-masterpieces-from- the-oskar-reinhart-collection/������

Courtauld Friends get free unlimited entry to all exhibitions, access to presale tickets, priority booking to selected events, advance notice of art history short courses, exclusive events, discounts and more. Join at courtauld.ac.uk/friends������

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
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The Courtauld Gallery��
Somerset House, Strand
London WC2R 0RN��

Opening hours: 10.00 – 18.00 (last entry 17.15)
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Friends and Under-18s go free. Other concessions available����

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Course 18 – Summer School on campus

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Dr Lois Oliver
£645

Course description

In a cartoon published in 1855, Honoré Daumier imagined a battle between two rival aesthetic schools in France: ‘Idealism’ appears as an ageing neoclassical nude, wearing an antique helmet, with his palette as a shield, heroically raising his mahlstick as a spear, to defend himself against ‘Realism’, a scruffy figure in rustic clogs, brandishing a small square palette and clumsy paintbrush. The image perfectly encapsulates the artistic and political differences between these two entrenched aesthetic positions, but the real joke is that neither of these veteran combatants is as vigorous as he used to be: both would be vulnerable to a new avant-garde challenger. The French art world witnessed a series of battles as traditionalists grappled with the successive challenges presented by Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.

This course explores the reasons behind the profound innovations in subject matter and technique that characterised the age, and the obstacles faced by avant-garde artists in getting their work exhibited and accepted. We shall explore the work of Ingres, Delacroix, Delaroche, Courbet, Millet, Rousseau, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Morisot, Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

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The Courtauld Gallery will present an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection will be on display from 14 February – 26 May 2025.��

The exhibition will open with a selection of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists, including �ҴDzⲹ51��ݶ� highly charged Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks (c.1808-12), ��é���������ܱ���51��ݶ� moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank (c.1819-22) and ��dzܰ������51��ݶ� provocative The Hammock (1844). ��

At the heart of the exhibition will be some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including �մdzܱ��dzܲ���-�����ٰܳ���51��ݶ� striking representation of the female performer The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), �Ѳ��Ա��51��ݶ� groundbreaking depiction of modern life Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne.  A further highlight is the pair of celebrated paintings by Van Gogh, A Ward in the Hospital at Arles and The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles (1889), which illustrate the hospital where he had been a patient following his earlier mental breakdown and the mutilation of his ear, as seen in Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear in The Courtauld51��ݶ� collection.��

The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the most remarkable art museums of its kind, with a collection that ranges from superlative old master paintings and drawings to a fabled group of Impressionist art. Featuring over 200 paintings, the collection was assembled in the first half of the 20th century by Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), whose family was associated with one of the world51��ݶ� leading trading companies.�� Reinhart bequeathed his collection and house to the Swiss confederation, and it opened as a public museum in 1970 in his beautiful, large villa on the outskirts of Winterthur, close to Zurich, called ‘Am Römerholz’.��

Oskar Reinhart was a direct contemporary of Samuel Courtauld, founder of 51��ݶ�. They shared a similar taste in artists and are known to have met. The Reinhart Collection51��ݶ� close affinities with that of The Courtauld Gallery51��ݶ� permanent collection provide the perfect context to stage this unprecedented exhibition, which brings many of Reinhart51��ݶ� paintings to the United Kingdom for the very first time.����

The exhibition51��ݶ� lead sponsor is Griffin Catalyst, the civic engagement initiative of Citadel Founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin.����

Tickets are available to buy on our website:����/whats-on/exh-goya-to-impressionism-masterpieces-from-the-oskar-reinhart-collection/��

Courtauld Friends get free unlimited entry to all exhibitions, access to presale tickets, priority booking to selected events, advance notice of art history short courses, exclusive events, discounts and more. Join at ��

The Courtauld Gallery 
Somerset House, Strand 
London WC2R 0RN 
Opening hours: 10.00 – 18.00 (last entry 17.15) ��

Temporary Exhibition tickets (including entry to our Permanent Collection and displays) – Weekday tickets from £14; Weekend tickets from £16.��

Friends and Under-18s go free. Other concessions available  ��

The post The Courtauld Gallery announces major exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection appeared first on The Courtauld.

The Courtauld Gallery will present an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection will be on display from 14 February – 26 May 2025.��

The exhibition will open with a selection of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists, including �ҴDzⲹ51��ݶ� highly charged Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks (c.1808-12), ��é���������ܱ���51��ݶ� moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank (c.1819-22) and ��dzܰ������51��ݶ� provocative The Hammock (1844). ��

At the heart of the exhibition will be some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including �մdzܱ��dzܲ���-�����ٰܳ���51��ݶ� striking representation of the female performer The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), �Ѳ��Ա��51��ݶ� groundbreaking depiction of modern life Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne.  A further highlight is the pair of celebrated paintings by Van Gogh, A Ward in the Hospital at Arles and The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles (1889), which illustrate the hospital where he had been a patient following his earlier mental breakdown and the mutilation of his ear, as seen in Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear in The Courtauld51��ݶ� collection.��

The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the most remarkable art museums of its kind, with a collection that ranges from superlative old master paintings and drawings to a fabled group of Impressionist art. Featuring over 200 paintings, the collection was assembled in the first half of the 20th century by Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), whose family was associated with one of the world51��ݶ� leading trading companies.�� Reinhart bequeathed his collection and house to the Swiss confederation, and it opened as a public museum in 1970 in his beautiful, large villa on the outskirts of Winterthur, close to Zurich, called ‘Am Römerholz’.��

Oskar Reinhart was a direct contemporary of Samuel Courtauld, founder of 51��ݶ�. They shared a similar taste in artists and are known to have met. The Reinhart Collection51��ݶ� close affinities with that of The Courtauld Gallery51��ݶ� permanent collection provide the perfect context to stage this unprecedented exhibition, which brings many of Reinhart51��ݶ� paintings to the United Kingdom for the very first time.����

The exhibition51��ݶ� lead sponsor is Griffin Catalyst, the civic engagement initiative of Citadel Founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin.����

Tickets are on general sale from Thursday 28 November, 10am (GMT):����

Book now:�� /whats-on/exh-goya-to-impressionism-masterpieces-from-the-oskar-reinhart-collection/��

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14 Feb – 26 May 2025
Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, Floor 3

The Courtauld Gallery presents an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to see some of its masterpieces – including works by Goya,��Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso,and Cezanne among others.

The exhibition opens with a group of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists, including �ҴDzⲹ51��ݶ� highly charged Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks (c.1808-12), ��é���������ܱ���51��ݶ��� moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank (c.1819-22) and ��dzܰ������51��ݶ� provocative The Hammock (1844).

At the heart of the exhibition are some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including �մdzܱ��dzܲ���-�����ٰܳ���51��ݶ� striking representation of the female performer  The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), �Ѳ��Ա��51��ݶ� groundbreaking depiction of modern life  Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne.  A further highlight is the pair of celebrated paintings by Van Gogh, A Ward in the Hospital at Arles and The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles (1889), which illustrate the hospital where he had been a patient following his earlier mental breakdown and the mutilation of his ear, as seen in Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear in The Courtauld’s collection.

About the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’

The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the most remarkable art museums of its kind, with a collection that ranges from superlative old master paintings and drawings to a fabled group of Impressionist art. Featuring over 200 works of art, the collection was assembled in the first half of the 20th century by Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), whose family was associated with one of the world51��ݶ� leading trading companies.�� Reinhart bequeathed his collection and house to the Swiss confederation, and it opened as a public museum in 1970 in his beautiful, large villa on the outskirts of Winterthur, close to Zurich, called ‘Am Römerholz’.

Oskar Reinhart was a direct contemporary of Samuel Courtauld, founder of 51��ݶ�. They shared a similar taste in artists and are known to have met in 1932, the year when The Courtauld was founded. The Reinhart Collection51��ݶ� close affinities with that of The Courtauld Gallery51��ݶ� permanent collection provide the perfect context to stage this unprecedented exhibition, which brings many of Reinhart51��ݶ� paintings to the United Kingdom for the very first time.

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£645

Course description

Orientalist paintings are complex works with a contentious history: a��popular genre in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe, they have been variously described as historically significant snapshots of life in ‘the Orient’ and as ideologically constructed fantasies created in the minds and studios of the European artists who painted them. Recent exhibitions, and the growing private and public collections of Orientalism throughout the Islamic world, demonstrate that these works continue to find new audiences.

This course is designed to explore Orientalism in its artistic, political and historical contexts and to provide participants with a framework through which to approach and interpret these works. We shall identify and scrutinise recurring motifs (horsemen, harems, odalisques, palm trees, alleyways, arches) and common themes (idleness, sensuality, violence) in the works of Orientalism51��ݶ� most renowned artists, including Delacroix, Gérôme, Deutsch and Lewis, and in early photography and popular culture. We shall trace Orientalism51��ݶ� shifting forms and renewed purpose in early modernism, in the works of Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and Kandinsky. Throughout the course we shall also discuss how artists and intellectuals from Turkey and the Levant region responded to Orientalism in painting, expanding notions of the cultural flows that existed between Europe and the lands it referred to as the Orient.

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