"Your enthusiasm for the arts and for life as a whole will be an inspiration to me for the rest of my life. AHA has helped me to realize where I want to go. You have given me a future I could have never conceived on my own. It changes lives for the better."

Tom Sutcliffe, Spring 2006

Where do we go and What do we see

London - 4 days

Monarchy, Church & State in Britain at Westminster and Buckingham Palace. The Classical Tradition and Grand Tour at the Victoria & Albert and John Soane's Museums. Greek, Roman and Non-European Art at the British Museum and 14th - 16th century Western Art at the National Gallery.

Sicily - 4 days

Greek temples at Segesta, Roman and Norman mosaics in Palermo, Classical poetry and Sicilian Baroque in Syracuse and the first of many Caravaggios.

Amalfi - 1 day

Swimming, drawing, boating and rest.

Naples - 4 days

Greek marbles and bronze sculpture at the Archaeological Museum, several fine examples of 16th and 17th century painting at the Capodimonte Museum, a day trip to Pompei to study Roman daily life and a journey up dormant Vesuvius.

Rome - 5 days

Classical Rome, Early Christian Church, Vatican and a special visit of the Sistine Chapel, when it is closed to the general public. Michelangelo, Raphael and the High Renaissance. Reformation and the rise of the Catholic Church. Bernini, Borromini and the extravagant Baroque. A free morning.

Florence - 5 days

Renaissance painting at the Uffizi. The Brancacci Chapel and sculpture at the Bargello. Ghiberti, Masaccio, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo & Michelangelo and Brunelleschi's dome. Patronage of the Medici family. A free afternoon.

Venice - 5 days

Giotto at Padua en-route to ‘La Serenissima' Venice. A private visit to the Basilica of St Mark's.  Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Palladio, the Peggy Guggenheim Museum and we'll include a well earned day off.

Paris - 3 days

Revolution and Napoleon, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism & Cubism. David, Gericault, Delacroix, Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso & Braque.

London - 3 days

Age of an Empire with Turner at the Tate Britain. The Young British Artists in the Saatchi Collection. International Modernism at the Tate Modern and the cutting edge contemporary scene with artists' studio visits.


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