Classes at the City Lit, London:

Medieval and Renaissance Art: An Introduction - 14:35 - 16:35
5 week week course, starting on Friday 23rd September - Friday 21st October, 2011
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Medieval_and_Renaissance_art%3A_an_introduction/VB190

Styles in Art - 18:00 - 19:45
10 week course, starting on Tuesday 10th January - Tuesday 13th March, 2012.
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Styles_in_art/VB106

Styles in Art - 14:35 - 16:35
10 week course, starting on Tuesday 11th January - Tuesday 15th March, 2012.
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Styles_in_art/VB105

Iconography and Iconology: secrets of the old masters revealed - 18:00 - 19:30
3 week course, starting on Thursday 12th January - Thursday 26th January, 2012.
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Iconography_and_iconology%3A_secrets_of_the_old_masters_revealed/VB129

Michelangelo: introduction and study day - 10:30 - 16:30
1 Day course, starting on Sunday 15th January, 2012.
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Michelangelo%3A_introduction_and_study_day/VB196

The Mirror of Nature: Art & Culture in the 17th century - 14:30 - 16:30
8 week course, starting on Monday 16th January - Monday 27th Feburary,2012.
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/The_mirror_of_nature%3A_art_and_culture_in_the_17th_century/VB128

Leonardo da Vinci: introduction and study day - 10:30 - 16:30
1 Day course, starting on Sunday 19th Feburary, 2012.
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Leonardo_da_Vinci%3A_introduction_and_study_day/VB177

Introduction to the National Gallery - 14:35 - 16:35
10 week course, starting on Thursday 26th April - Thursday 5th July, 2012:
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/National_Gallery/VB150

The Rise of Renaissance Masters: Origins and Conclusions - 14:35 - 16:35
10 week course, starting on Thursday 26th April - Thursday 5th July, 2012:
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/The_rise_of_Renaissance_masters%3A_origins_and_conclusions/VB130

Italian Renaissance Drawing: design, form and function - 14:35 - 16:35
7 week week course, starting on Friday 18th May - Friday 29th June, 2012
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Italian_Renaissance_drawing%3A_design%2C_form_and_function/VB131

Introduction to the National Portrait Gallery - 14:35 - 16:35
5 week course, starting on Monday 11th June - Monday 9th July, 2012:
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/National_Portrait_Gallery/VB151

Masters of the Renaissance: Leonardo and Michelangelo - 18:00 - 19:30
10 week week course, starting on Thursday 22nd September - Thursday 24th November, 2012
http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Art_history/Masters_of_the_Renaissance%3A_Leonardo_and_Michelangelo/VB180

Classes at the Bishopsgate Institute, London:

An Introduction to the History of European Art - 18:00 - 20:00
6 week course, starting on Friday 13th January - Friday 17th February, 2012
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/searchcourses_detail.aspx?CourseId=250&Keyword=&Category=Arts%20and%20Culture&

An Introduction to the History of European Art - 18:30 - 20:30
5 week course, starting on Monday 16th January - Monday 20th February, 2012
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/searchcourses_detail.aspx?CourseId=226&Keyword=&Category=Arts%20and%20Culture&

Previous lectures at the National Gallery:

Opposition – Rubens: ‘Peace and War’ - National Gallery - room 29, free lecture, Tuesday 25 May 2010

The Wilton Diptych Enigma - National Gallery Theatre, Sanisbury Wing, free lecture, Thursday 25 July 2010

Gender and the Body - Kept Behind Curtains: The Story of the Nude - National Gallery Theatre, Sanisbury Wing, free lecture, Thursday 25 February 2010

Previous lectures at the National Portrait Gallery:

Restoration Portraits - Tuesday 4 August 2009

The American Revolution - Saturday 4 July 2009

Female Portraits in the 18th Century - Saturday 4 July 2009

Georgian Portraits - Saturday 15 March 2008

Daniel Mytens - Thursday 3 April 2008

Age of Discovery: Joseph Banks, Joseph Wright of Derby - Tuesday 13 May 2008

Civil War and Restoration Portraits - Saturday 26 July 2008

Young Curators: 31 July 2006

Saints and Sinners (An Eastside Young Leaders' Academy project in conjunction with the Courtauld Institute of Art)

Learning at Somerset House and Eastside Young Leaders' Academy collaborated in this week-long curating summer school. The aim of the summer school was for the boys to create and upload their own online exhibition based on works from the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery.

EYLA is a leadership development organisation for African Caribbean boys, which nurtures their leadership skills, helping them to improve the quality of their lives so that they can become productive citizens.

The eight boys (Kehinde Akindojuromi, Taiwo Akindojuromi, Alexander Decker, Aaron Hazel, Julian Johnson, Marcus Kerr, Ian Wahinya and Ian Wright) met key gallery staff and selected the works for the exhibition on the theme of Saints and Sinners. They then researched and wrote the accompanying web-texts. As well as the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery the boys visited Tate Modern to look at Surrealist paintings, and on one afternoon they were joined by world-famous illustrator Quentin Blake who discussed with them some of his own curating projects.

Ghislaine Kenyon, Head of Learning

Course tutors: Leslie Primo (National Gallery) and Susan Sheddan (Courtauld Institute of Art)

http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/insight/eyla_saints_sinners.html?ixsid=I3onp9uZI3H

Previous talks at the National Maritime Museum:

The twenty-four muses of Orazio Gentileschi - 12th Dec 2007

The 17th-century Queen’s House, England’s first classical building is a rare surviving example of the work Inigo Jones. It was commissioned by Anne of Denmark, wife of James I and completed in 1638 for Charles I’s French queen, Henrietta Maria, as a private ‘house of delights’.

On its completion the Italian Baroque painter Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) was commissioned to provide decorative ceiling panels for the Great Hall, Allegory of Peace and the Arts under the English Crown. Little of this splendour survives today, however: Gentileschi’s ceiling was removed in the early 18th century and installed in the hall of Marlborough House on Pall Mall.

The Museum gains special access to Marlborough House to view Gentileschi’s original ceiling panels with art historian Leslie Primo who’ll bring Italian renaissance art, Gentileschi and his muses to life.


Time travel - 30th Jan 2008

Travel through time with Leslie Primo on this art historical tour of the Queen’s House. Be transported back in time and discover the history of this visually breath-taking ‘house of delights’ and explore how it has evolved through the ages. Exploring both art and architecture, Leslie uses Esther Shalev-Gerz’s exhibition about memory as a springboard.

Leslie Primo lectures at the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, and as visiting lecturer at Reading University and the City Literary he has taught courses on art history ranging from the Renaissance to impressionism.