Selected

GENERAL TALKS

Dr Valerie Shrimplin

These are the more general talks that I have either given or I am scheduled to give. Click here to view a list of the popular talks I am able to give.

 
2025
May, Hexham Northumbria Arts Society, 'The Italian Renaissance: The Quattrocento - Masaccio to Botticelli Quattrocento'

 
2025
April, Arts Society Bramhall Cheshire, 'Shadows in Western Painting: 'Standing between Darkness and Light'

 
2024
May, Peterborough Arts Society, 'Shadows in Western Painting: 'Standing between Darkness and Light'

 
2024
February, U3A, Hermanus Cape Town, South Africa, 'Affairs of the Heart: the Symbolism of the Heart in Art'

 
2024
February, Arts Society Grantham 'Sir Christopher Wren and St Paul's - his life, works and times'

 
2024
January, Arts Society Moorpark Watford, 'Astronomical Imagery in the Work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brother(and Sister)hood'

 
2023
July, St Albans Cathedral, Adult Learning Programme, 'The Influence of Astronomy and Cosmology on Medieval Art'

 
2023
April, Arts Society Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire, 'Affairs of the Heart: the Symbolism of the Heart in Art'

 
2023
April, U3A, Cape Town, South Africa, 'Sir Christopher Wren and St Paul's - his life, works and times'

 
2023
January, Arts Society Lomond and Argyll (Helensburgh), 'The Architect Borromini ?and Kepler's New Astronomy'

 
2023
January, Arts Society West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 'Giotto and the Early Italian Renaissance' (online due to covid)

 
2023
January, Delaware Astronomical Society Book Club, 'Sir Christopher Wren and St Paul's - his life, works and times'

 
2023
January, For Restoringdarkness.com, Toronto, interview blog 'Painting the Night Sky'

 
2022
December, St Albans Cathedral, Adult Learning Programme, 'Dark Skies and Light Pollution: An Art-Historical Approach'

 
2022
November, Arts Society, Appleby, Westmoreland, 'Giotto and the Early Italian Renaissance'

 
2022
November, St Albans & Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, 'Sir Christopher Wren: Architect-Astronomer'

 
2022
November, Cassidy Cash interview blog, Alabama on 'Anne Boleyn'

 
2022
October, Cassidy Cash Alabama, blog/interview format, on 'Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College'

 
2022
20-24 September 2022 (postponed from June 2020), XI Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Caltech, Pasadena

 
2022
February, Arts Society St Albans, 'Sir Christopher Wren: Architect-Astronomer'

 
2022
February, Arts Society Harpenden, 'Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel'

 
2021
December, Arts Society (for 'Artvent'), 'Shadows in Western Painting: 'Standing between Darkness and Light'

 
2021
November, Arts Society, Brussels, 'Giotto and the Early Italian Renaissance'

 
2021
November, U3A, Hermanus Cape Town, South Africa, 'Anne Boleyn: Harlot or Heroine?'

 
2021
September, St Albans Civic Society, 'Anne Boleyn: Harlot or Heroine?'; Anne Boleyn and Hever Castle'

 
2021
September, U3A, Hermanus Cape Town, South Africa, 'The Last Judgment Decoded: Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel'

 
2021
August, U3A Hermanus Cape Town, South Africa, 'Giotto and the Early Italian Renaissance'

 
2021
July, International Congress on the History of Science, Prague, Presentation on Michelangelo (online)

 
2020
September, presentation, Arts Society, 'The Early Italian Renaissance: The Sienese School'

 
2020
February, The Last Judgment Decoded: Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel', London Art and More Society, Richmond

 
2019
February, 'Sir Thomas Gresham and the Tudors', Arundel Sussex, Swallow Club

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