List of Art Appreciation and History lectures September 2014-December 2016

Brian Nicholls and Cheda Panajotovic have published the list of lectures for their groups Art Appreciation and History.
Lecture No. | Date | Org | Speaker | Subject Title | ||
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1 | Thu, 17 Sep 2009 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Art Appreciation | |
2 | Mon, 28 Sep 2009 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Mary Seacole | |
3 | Thu, 22 Oct 2009 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | The life and work of Toulouse-Lautrec | |
4 | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | From year dot to Man’s First Settlements (1/6) | |
5 | Thu, 19 Nov 2009 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Lynn Haigh | Matisse – a cornucopia of colour | |
6 | Mon, 30 Nov 2009 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Greece, Phoenicia, Rome and Persia (2/6) | |
7 | Thu, 21 Jan 2010 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Van Gough – a soul in torment | |
8 | Mon, 25 Jan 2010 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | The Dark Ages (3/6) | |
9 | Mon, 22 Feb 2010 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Medieval Transitions (4/6) | |
10 | Mon, 29 Mar 2010 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | From the Renaissance to the Great Fire of 1666 (5/6) | |
11 | Mon, 26 Apr 2010 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | From the Great Fire to the Age of Steam (6/6) | |
12 | Mon, 13 Sep 2010 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Lynn Haigh | Women in Art | |
13 | Mon, 27 Sep 2010 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Britain in the Swinging 60's | |
14 | Mon, 11 Oct 2010 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Art Deco and the Bauhaus | |
15 | Mon, 25 Oct 2010 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | What the Romans did for Spain | |
16 | Mon, 8 Nov 2010 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | The Image of Woman | |
17 | Mon, 29 Nov 2010 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Alan Oliver | The Peninsular War, 1808-1814. | |
18 | Mon, 13 Dec 2010 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | The GOLDEN Art Triangle of Madrid | |
19 | Mon, 10 Jan 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | My Top 10 SPANISH ARTISTS | |
20 | Mon, 31 Jan 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | The Spice Wars that created the British Empire | |
21 | Mon, 14 Feb 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | The Spanish artist; Bartolomé Estaban Murillo | |
22 | Mon, 28 Feb 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Indian Mutiny 1857 - Pt.1 | |
23 | Mon, 14 Mar 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Van Gough – a soul in torment | |
24 | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | The Spanish Inquisition | |
25 | Mon, 11 Apr 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Lynn Haigh | Artists & Interiors | |
26 | Mon, 9 May 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | Gaudí and his Contemporaries: Art Nouveau in Barcelona | |
27 | Mon, 30 May 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Dee Craig | The Founding of Cape Town. | |
28 | Mon, 13 Jun 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Animals in Art | |
29 | Mon, 27 Jun 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Indian Mutiny 1857 - Pt.2 | |
30 | Mon, 12 Sep 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Introduction to Modern Art | |
31 | Mon, 26 Sep 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Fabio Bezoari | The Anasazi or the Ancient Foreigners of the USA Four Corners region. | |
32 | Mon, 10 Oct 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Was Impressionism Made in England? | |
33 | Mon, 31 Oct 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Ramon Llull – the Spanish Shakespeare | |
34 | Mon, 14 Nov 2011 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Your Manet or Your Monet? | |
35 | Mon, 28 Nov 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | Life in 18C England | |
36 | Mon, 12 Dec 2011 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | The NICE Bloody Mary | |
37 | Mon, 9 Jan 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Stanley Spencer | |
38 | Mon, 30 Jan 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Fabio Bezoari | I’ve seen Auswitz…. | |
39 | Mon, 13 Feb 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | History’s forgotten female artists | |
40 | Mon, 27 Feb 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Dee Craig | The Infanta, The Prince and the Two Thrones | |
41 | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian & Cheda | Sorolla the painter of summer’s light & Jacob Epstein, ‘sculptor extraordinaire’ | |
42 | Mon, 26 Mar 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Andrew Johnson | The Grand Tour | |
43 | Tue, 10 Apr 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Causes of WW1 TUESDAY | |
44 | Mon, 30 Apr 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | Ancient Greece to London 2012 | |
45 | Mon, 14 May 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | 18C Paper Craft | |
46 | Mon, 28 May 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Danny Coburn | The History of the Masonic Order - 45 minute talk without illustration | |
47 | Mon, 11 Jun 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | History’s forgotten female artists: Artemisia Gentileschi | |
48 | Mon, 25 Jun 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | The 7 Wonders of the World | |
49 | Mon, 10 Sep 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Was Picasso the greatest artist ever? | |
50 | Mon, 24 Sep 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | The Borgias | |
51 | Mon, 8 Oct 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | History’s forgotten female artists: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647- 1717) | |
52 | Mon, 29 Oct 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | History of Texas – part 1 (From pre Columbian to the Civil War – 1861) | |
53 | Mon, 12 Nov 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | 18th C: Birth of the R.A. Reynolds, Blake, Turner etc. | |
54 | Mon, 26 Nov 2012 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | History of Texas – part 2 (From Civil War to Apollo XI) | |
55 | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Fabio Bezoari | Sicilian Pilgrimage – 3000 years of history | |
56 | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | ‘Der Blaue Reiter’ (The Blue Rider) group of artists | |
57 | Mon, 28 Jan 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Dee Craig | British Kings and Queens in 54 minutes | |
58 | Mon, 11 Feb 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Artists in pain! | |
59 | Mon, 25 Feb 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Danny Coburn | 1920’s to 1948 and the creation of Israel. | |
60 | Mon, 11 Mar 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Maureen Stanley | Gustav Klimt | |
61 | Mon, 25 Mar 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? Pt 1: The White Queen, Elizabeth Woodville | |
62 | Mon, 15 Apr 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Frieda Kahlo | |
63 | Mon, 29 Apr 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? Pt 2: The Red Queen, Margaret Beaufort. | |
64 | Mon, 13 May 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Mary Connatty | The Best of Royal Portraits | |
65 | Mon, 27 May 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Bravery and Treachery: The Young Women Operatives of the SOE | |
66 | Mon, 10 Jun 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | ART and I | |
67 | Mon, 24 Jun 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | London Entertainment: The Top Twenty Tourist Attractions 225 years ago | |
68 | Mon, 9 Sep 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Artists as Illustrators | |
69 | Mon, 30 Sep 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Andrew Johnson | Dividing the World - Spanish to the left, Portuguese to the right. | |
70 | Mon, 14 Oct 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | FAUVISM – A Splash of Colour | |
71 | Mon, 28 Oct 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Amelia Earhart, aviator and pioneer | |
72 | Mon, 11 Nov 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | Golden Age of Satire | |
73 | Mon, 25 Nov 2013 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Yugoslavia – a country that almost was! | |
74 | Mon, 9 Dec 2013 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Dee Craig | Victoria’s Children | |
75 | Mon, 13 Jan 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | The creative mind of Leonardo da Vinci | |
76 | Mon, 27 Jan 2014 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | The Birth of a Nation: the American War of Independence - its Causes and Effects. | |
77 | Mon, 10 Feb 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Maureen Stanley | A Short Stroll Through Egyptian Art | |
78 | Mon, 24 Feb 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | Guernica: the Atrocity and the Painting | |
79 | Mon, 10 Mar 2014 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Fabio Bezoari | ‘Alpi at War’ the shortest "war" between Italy and France – W. Alps - 1940. | |
80 | Mon, 31 Mar 2014 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Larry Sherrington | The British East India Company | |
81 | Mon, 14 Apr 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Dee Craig | Queen Victoria’s Children | |
82 | Mon, 5 May 2014 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | "Slavery and the Abolition movement" | |
83 | Mon, 12 May 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | The Pitmen Painters | |
84 | Mon, 8 Sep 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian & Cheda | Our 10 favourite art works – each. | |
85 | Mon, 29 Sep 2014 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | “Whilst London sleeps - Samuel Pepys” | |
86 | Mon, 13 Oct 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | The artistic talents of Hitler and Churchill | |
87 | Mon, 27 Oct 2014 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | History of the Circus | |
88 | Mon, 10 Nov 2014 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Eladio Calleja (1931-1985) Born in Javea. Artist, Sculptor and Poet | |
89 | Mon, 24 Nov 2014 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | The little-known Alfred Stevens and the Romantic Movement | |
90 | Mon, 12 Jan 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Art of Conflict | |
91 | Mon, 26 Jan 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | A History of Andalucia | |
92 | Mon, 9 Feb 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Dee Craig | Cecil Rhodes | |
93 | Mon, 23 Feb 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | David Rohl | Exodus-Myth or History | |
94 | Mon, 9 Mar 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Maureen Stanley | Goya and the Duchess of Alba | |
95 | Mon, 30 Mar 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Animals in Warfare | |
96 | Mon, 20 Apr 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | The Life and Work of Ansel Adams, Landscape Photographer | |
97 | Mon, 27 Apr 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Eva Perón (1919 –1952): Her Life, Her Legacy and the Legend | |
98 | Mon, 11 May 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Tamara Lempicka; the Art Deco Painter’ | |
99 | Mon, 25 May 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Dee Craig | Lady Jane Grey | |
100 | Mon, 8 Jun 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian & Cheda | Yet another ART double act | |
101 | Mon, 29 Jun 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | The turbulent years of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell | |
102 | Mon, 14 Sep 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian & Cheda | Another Double Act | |
103 | Mon, 28 Sep 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Lady Elizabeth Butler (Mimi Thompson) | |
104 | Mon, 26 Oct 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Turner’s watercolours | |
105 | Mon, 9 Nov 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Alan Oliver | Spanish Civil War | |
106 | Mon, 30 Nov 2015 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | A cycle trip to Santiago, Art, Architecture etc. | |
107 | Mon, 14 Dec 2015 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | Valencia: a history of a city. | |
108 | Mon, 11 Jan 2016 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Mike Granville | Alternative History | |
109 | Mon, 25 Jan 2016 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Alan Oliver | Portuguese explorers | |
110 | Mon, 25 Jan 2016 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Charles II – The Wilderness Years! | |
111 | Mon, 8 Feb 2016 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Maureen Stanley | Picasso’s Muse | |
112 | Mon, 29 Feb 2016 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | David Rohl | Exodus: part two | |
113 | Mon, 14 Mar 2016 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Grandma Moses | |
114 | Mon, 11 Apr 2016 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Peter Atkinson | The Parallel Lives of L.S. Lowry and Norman Rockwell.’ | |
115 | Mon, 25 Apr 2016 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | The story of Mata Hari | |
116 | Mon, 9 May 2016 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Celebrity ‘Artists’ | |
117 | Mon, 30 May 2016 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Dee Craig | Sarah Churchill | |
118 | Mon, 13 Jun 2016 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | Dance through the ages as portrayed by artists such as Rubens, Botticelli, Brueghel through to Rosenquist and Jaspar Johns. | |
119 | Mon, 27 Jun 2016 | Moraira HIST | 10.30 | Cheda Panajotovic | Plunder of Ancient Egypt | |
120 | Mon, 12 Sep 2016 | Moraira ART | 10.30 | Brian & Cheda | Double Act - Strange London Histories and Iconic Photographs of the 20th century | |
121 | Mon, 26 Sep 2016 | Moraira A & H | 10.30 | Angela Chantry | Rossetti and his muses | |
122 | Mon, 10 Oct 2016 | Moraira A & H | 10.30 | David Rohl | ‘Sangreal-The Romano-Spanish legend of the Holy Grail’ | |
123 | Mon, 31 Oct 2016 | Moraira A & H | 10.30 | Mike Rendell | Some Famous and Infamous Courtesans of the 18th Century | |
124 | Mon, 14 Nov 2016 | Moraira A & H | 10.30 | Brian Nicholls | ‘The Man Who Was’ | |
125 | Mon, 28 Nov 2016 | Moraira A & H | 10.30 | Mike Granville | ‘Magna Carta’ | |
126 | Mon, 12 Dec 2016 | Moraira A & H | 10.30 | Graciela Kaplan | A (ballerina’s) life in four acts |
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- The U3A Teulada-Moraira lectures are given in the splendid comfort of the main auditorium of La Senieta, the modern building on the corner of the free public car park in Moraira.
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- All U3A members are welcome to these FREE lectures.