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The Architects Who Made London with Maxwell Hutchinson

10 Mar 2008
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Cenotaph
Cenotaph by Edwin Lutyens
Edwin Lutyens’s London projects range from the great barn-like churches of Hampstead Garden Suburb to commercial buildings, such as the ‘Wrenaissance’ headquarters for Country Life in Covent Garden, or the Baroque grandeur of Britannic House on Finsbury Circus. After World War I he was involved in the creation of monuments to commemorate the fallen, including the powerful and moving Cenotaph in Whitehall and the Tower Hill memorial. Margaret Richardson, Honorary Curator of Architecture at the Royal Academy, discusses how Lutyens’s work imaginatively adapted traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his time.

Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Piccadilly, W1; 6.30–7.30pm

 

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Joan Miró, The Birth of Day 1 (Naissance du jour 1), 1964. Oil on canvas, 146 x 113.5 cm. Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul. Photo © Galerie Maeght.
© Succession Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008.

 

The Antioch Chalice, Byzantine, from Syria, possibly Kaper Koraon or Antioch, first half of the sixth century. Silver cup set in footed silver-gilt shell, Height 19. 7 cm. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1950 (50.4). Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art