Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - Landscapes Pt. 3 - Inside and Out

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This week we would like to present you with the final lecture of our three-part series given by Tom Richards, Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art, focusing on various dualisms within the broad genre of “landscape.” 

The first lecture Symbols vs. Facts introduced us to the series and began with an invitation to consider how people have created art that reflects the world around them throughout time, as well as the symbolic and very real threats and inspirations that the natural world presents. 

The second lecture Real vs. Ideal expanded on these concepts by exploring the imagined and more psychological ability of landscapes to mirror a chosen mood in a composition as well as touching on the idea of a “portrait of a place” as the reason for including a landscape, and how the artist’s connection to a certain place influences how they depict it in their work. 

In this week’s lecture Tom Richards expertly guides us through several paintings, drawings, and preparatory studies by artists such as Claude Lorrain, John Constable, and Isaac Levitan, focusing, in a more practical sense, how the artists made the artworks they did. Discussing the differences between work made in the studio vs in the field, Richards touches on the difficulties these artists went through as well as a gives us insight into the working practice that created the variety of works you see in this lecture.

We hope you thoroughly enjoy this video!

If you missed the first two lectures they are available to view here:

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - Landscape Pt. 1 - Symbols vs Facts 

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - Landscape Pt. 2 - Real vs Ideal 

Tom Richards is Assistant Director of the Florence Academy of Art, Principal Instructor at the academy, and a working artist based in the UK and Italy.

To learn more about Tom and his work please visit:

Instagram: @tominflorence 

Website: www.tawrichards.com

FAA Gallery: www.florenceacademyofart.com/alumni-gallery/tom-richards 

If you would like to further research the works from the lecture we have selected details on artists mentioned in the order of their first appearance below:

• Sandro Botticelli (1477–1482)
• Tiziano Vecelli “Titian” (1490–1576)
• Jan van Eyck (before 1390 or 1395–1441)
• Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470–1528)
• Claude Lorrain (1600–1682)
• Claude Monet (1840–1926)
• Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878)
• Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
• John Constable (1776–1837)
• Isaac Levitan (1860–1900)
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875)
• Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923)
• Telemaco Signorini (1835–1901)
• George Inness (1825–1894)