Tutor information
Keith Hasted
Keith's initial research focus was Italian Renaissance palace architecture, and he has since developed a special interest in the architecture of cathedrals, not only in England but also in mainland Europe. He has taught courses over a number of years in the OUDCE weekly programme and Summer School and for the WEA.
Courses
Italy's adoption of its distinctive Gothic styles was remarkable. We will go on to examine the equally dramatic transition in both church and secular building to Renaissance architecture in the major cities including Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice.
2025 marks 400 years since Charles I took the throne. His Surveyor of the King’s Works, Inigo Jones, toured Italy extensively and brought the Renaissance to English architecture. We will explore the emergence of Renaissance building in Italy and England.
Design of stained glass was intertwined with the developing forms of windows and the stone tracery they contained - seen in Canterbury's twelfth century miracles of St Thomas, York's great east window, work by Edward Burne-Jones and Marc Chagall.