
The 2023 series of OASA lectures
Date | Speaker | Title |
20 February | Mia Jackson | Alice de Rothschild (1847-1922) and Waddesdon Manor: reassessing a collector’s legacy |
20 March | Philip Pullman | “No good place, and ryghtly fear’d …” Inigo Jones, proportional dividers, and an anomaly in Palladio’s Quattro Libri dell’Architettura |
15 May 4.45pm | OASA AGM followed by a lecture from Jevon Thistlewood | The Secret Lives of Paintings: what they hide from view |
5 June | Emma Ridway | Making Art Histories: curating the British Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2022 |
9 October | Colin Harrison | ‘The Afterlife of Edgar Wind: a scholar and his collection’ (in person/no Zoom) |
6 November | Catherine Whistler | ‘Hidden Images: portraits and their covers in Renaissance Italy’ |
We are looking forward to welcoming you to our 2023 series of lectures and hope to see you there.
OASA Lectures Archive
2022
Date | Speaker | Title |
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9 May 4.45pm | Jacqueline Thalmann | When art came to Oxford: Christ Church Picture Gallery, Britain’s first public art museum |
6 June | Jeremy Warren | Medieval and Renaissance bronzes of the Ashmolean |
3 October | Francesca Leoni | ‘Enchanting yet treacherous’: lustreware in global perspective |
7 November | Kate Heard | ‘Scurrilous caricatures & infamous things’: the British monarchy and satirical prints, 1780–1830 |
OASA Lecture – Jacqueline Thalmann
‘When Art came to Oxford, Christ Church Picture gallery, Britain’s first public Art Museum’

Monday 9 May, 5.30 The Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean, and online via Eventbrite
Zoom : When meetings are also on Zoom, click HERE to find out how to download and use Zoom