LOVE , MARRIAGE AND DESIRE IN ART

This series of 15 lectures looks across the centuries at how artists have explored the enduring
themes of Romantic Love, Marriage and Desire in their works.

MARRIAGE : HERE COMES THE BRIDE

The figure of the bride which still captures the contemporary imagination is explored in her various guises (the virgin bride, bride of Christ, the jilted bride and so on) in works such as: Millais 'Speak! Speak!,' Vladimir Makovsky, 'Goodbye Papa', Thomas Hovenden 'Bringing Home the Bride', and Duchamp, 'The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors'.