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If you’re looking for an excuse to get out of the house and expand your horizons once a week during September, UCC art historian Dr Matthew Whyte from Sample-Studios is hosting just the thing.

Áine Andrews’s popular series on Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories returns to Triskel on South Main Street in October, but for those of us needing some art history before then, Dr Whyte’s new series, Art History Reframed, runs from Tuesday, September 17th  for six weeks with lectures on Tuesdays from 11am to 1pm.

The lecturer, who completed his PhD in the art and culture of Renaissance Italy, will take audiences on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

This first lecture of his series begins in the Golden Age of Classical Greece. Interestingly, the famous nudity that is omnipresent in Greek sculpture reflects the real practice of holding sporting events in the nude. This was a way of celebrating the beauty and power of the human form, but unfortunately meant that sporting events were off-limits for married women in case their thoughts might stray from their husbands.

The series continues tracing our past forward through the triumphalism of Imperial Rome, the tumultuous ‘Dark Ages’, and finishing with the splendours of the Italian Renaissance.

Each lecture is €25 or you can get 20 per cent off when you purchase all six lectures in a series. Tickets are on sale now from triskelartscentre.ie.