Day 1: In Search of Inspiration - Writers, Artists and Explorers through the Ages | Melbourne Lecture Series 2018

This afternoon we offer two fully illustrated lectures:Lecture 1 | 1.00 - 1.50pm Art, Patronage and Travel in Renaissance Art by Em. Prof. Bernard Hoffert [http://www.asatours.com.au/people/tour-leader-bernard-hoffert/] Lecture 2 | 2.20 - 3.10pm ARTISTS IN SEARCH OF ART by Em. Prof. Bernard Hoffert [http://www.asatours.com.au/people/tour-leader-bernard-hoffert/] ___________________________________________________ _Explore how religion, art, and literature have interacted with travel over two millennia. _ _Meet Homer and Herodotus, Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, the Muscovite Afanasil Nikitin and English Grand Tourists, explorer Peter Fleming and American art collectors on intellectual, commercial, spiritual and aesthetic journeys everywhere. Follow saints’ bones through the Adriatic, Italian artists in quests for motifs and styles, foreigners reacting to the 17th-century Dutch and intrepid sea voyagers like Alfred Russel Wallace. Learn how travel has enriched our culture, showing us who we are and are not, in this exciting journey through the history of travel, its meaning and its outcomes._ – Christopher Wood, Director, Australians Studying Abroad. Please note bookings are essential.  Each afternoon offers 2 lectures, allowing time for a Q&A session at the conclusion of each lecture. A minimal fee of $12.00 per day will apply.