Linking China With Europe

Blue And White In The Middle East

Granny may have had a blue-and-white tea-pot but where did the idea come from, and the technology?  It began in the 9th Century in Basra in Iraq, and was adopted by the Mongols, in the 14th Century, and the Dutch in the 17th century where it was found in the Delft factories.

Mad Men and Artists

How the Advertising Industry Exploited Fine Art

Fine art has provided advertisers and their agencies with a great deal of material to use in their creative campaigns.    This lecture describes some of the processes by which these advertisements have been created and why the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo have been a particularly rich source.