From The Renaissance to Romanticism: The Renaissance I

Next date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026 | 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM

The Renaissance I: beginnings and development in Italy. An art history lecture with Peter Haynes.

From the Renaissance to Romanticism is an art history lecture series that will take place in 2026 with Peter Haynes.

Join us for the first lecture in the series: The Renaissance I: beginnings and development in Italy

Using Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists (1550) as a starting point, the lecture will concentrate primarily on the work of painters, including Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca and Mantegna. Reference will also be made to key figures in architecture and sculpture such as Brunelleschi, Ghiberti and Donatello.

ABOUT PETER HAYNES
Cowra-based Peter Haynes is an established curator, writer and visual arts historian. Since 1978 he has worked in the museum/gallery sector with occasional forays into academia. He moved to Canberra from Sydney (where he was working at the Art Gallery of New South Wales) in 1981 to take up a position of Curator at the (then) Canberra School of Art, and also acted as Head of the Art History and Theory Workshop. He has held a number of positions including Curator of the Parliament House Art Collection; Director/Curator of the Nolan Gallery; Director of ACT Museums and Galleries and University Art Curator, University of Canberra. Haynes was also Adjunct Associate Professor in Museology and Cultural Heritage in the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage also at the University of Canberra. He has lectured extensively on the visual arts and heritage, curated over 250 exhibitions, and is widely published with over 300 publications nationally and internationally. He also worked as art critic for The Canberra Times from 2014 to 2022. Peter was the author of The Calleen Collection, the 2019 publication produced to coincide with the40th anniversary of the Award. Current projects include a monograph on ceramicist Martin Halstead (due for release in late 2025), a monograph on sculptor Ron Robertson-Swann..

ADMISSION FREE
AGES: All ages

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Nguluway Room, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, 77 Darling Street Cowra, 2794, View Map