Arts Society Cardiff: Virtual Lecture

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Arts Society Cardiff: Virtual Lecture

Mon 1 January 0001 - Thu 14 October 2021

Please note that if you are an Arts Society Cardiff member this virtual lecture is FREE and no need to book. You will be sent a link to join the event via your membership mailing list.

About October's lecture
‘THE MOST DISSOLUTE MAN IN LONDON’: THE 1ST DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE AND THE BUILDING OF CHATSWORTH
Aristocrat, politician, rake and revolutionary. William Cavendish, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Devonshire, is certainly one of the most colourful of seventeenth century noblemen. So wicked was he that an Italian visitor to Restoration England described him as ’the most dissolute man in London’. Yet Cavendish is also remembered as one of the great saviours of English civil liberties, part of a small group of aristocrats who overthrew James II and brought William of Orange and constitutional monarchy to the throne. In addition, he remodelled his Elizabethan family seat and transformed it into one of our greatest country houses and a monument to his success, Chatsworth in Derbyshire. This is a lecture on depravity, politics and fine architecture, as we look at Cavendish’s morals, his political redemption and his wonderful house and gardens.

About the lecturer
Dr Gillian White specialises in the history and visual arts of late medieval and sixteenth-century England. After beginning her career at the Warwickshire Museum, she then worked for the National Trust as Curator/Collections Manager at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, about which she wrote her PhD at Warwick University. Since that she taught part-time at Leicester University in the Centre for the Study of the Country House and continues to teach History of Art in the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University and elsewhere.

About Arts Society Cardiff
Arts Society Cardiff has been meeting regularly at Chapter for many years via their popular illustrated lectures series with knowledgeable and entertaining speakers. Alongside these, they also offer study day events, educational visits and cultural holidays that aim to bring people together through a shared curiosity for the arts. You can find out more and join the society here.

Prices:

Free for members, £5 for non-members

Please note that if you are an Arts Society Cardiff member this lecture is FREE and no need to book. You'll be sent a link to join the event via your membership mailing list.

For non-members, tickets cost £5. You'll be emailed details on how to join the Zoom call on the day of the event. Please make sure to check your junk/spam folder. For queries, please email ticketing@chapter.org

Tickets on sale until 1hr prior to event start time