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Discover Art History - Taster Lecture
Online course
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Thinking about an online course? Join V&A Academy course director Dr Jacqueline Cockburn for a free, live online lecture to discover more about art history, its art movements, styles and periods of artistic development. Have you ever wondered how to unravel these periods and feel confident about the context and history of the art produced? This introduction lecture lets you explore the joys of art history and discover together how philosophy, materials and techniques, social and historical contexts, science and technology all collide when we unravel art.
Get to know the V&A Academy learning platform when you join the taster lecture. You will receive your link 24 hours before the event, as well as a link to the recording afterwards, so that you can enjoy watching the lecture on demand.
Ready to learn more? Join Dr Jacqueline Cockburn and host of popular V&A course tutors on our new 10-weeklong online Introductory to Art History course to learn about the changing periods of artistic developments and styles from Classical to Contemporary art in the Western world.
With live lectures, Q&A and yours-to-keep course resources starting Tuesday 23 September, available on-demand till November 2025.
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Ready to learn more? Join Dr Jacqueline Cockburn and host of popular V&A course tutors on our new 10-weeklong online Introductory to Art History course to learn about the changing periods of artistic developments and styles from Classical to Contemporary art in the Western world.
With live lectures, Q&A and yours-to-keep course resources starting Tuesday 23 September, available on-demand till November 2025.
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Dr Jacqueline Cockburn
Dr Jacqueline Cockburn is an art historian and linguist. After a career in academic teaching at Birkbeck college, University of London and Westminster School, she is now a freelance lecturer. Jacqueline is Managing Director of Art and Culture Andalucía running residential courses in Andalucía, Southern Spain in the art and culture of the region.
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Online course: Discover Art History - Taster Lecture
24 July 2025
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Header image: Front cloth painted by Prince Alexander Schervachidze for the ballet Le Train Bleu, 1924, from a gouache by Pablo Picasso. Inscribed and signed by Picasso. Gouache on canvas. Museum Nr S.316-1978 / on-display at V&A East Storehouse ; further images: Ivory casket, Spain 10th century Museum Nr. A.580-1910 and oil painting by Auguste Delacroix, `Tanger' 1850, Musuem Nr. SD.307