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The Arts Society Nerja

Seville in 16th Century
Romanov empire .
The lecturer Tony Faber sits on the Board of the publishing company Faber and Faber and is also a director of Liverpool University Press . Sponsor : Studio 17 .
Members free . Guests € 10 .
Coronation Egg
The Arts Society Nerja has the pleasure to invite you to two ’ live on-line ’ lectures by ZOOM directly to your living room !
The first lecture will be on Tuesday , 9th March , at 6pm , and is about the famous Faberge eggs , “ The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Faberge - After the Revolution .”
The second lecture will be on Tuesday , 23rd March at 6pm , and is about Seville , ” Seville , Great Babylon of Spain ”.
Seville became Spain ’ s colonial capital in the 16th Century . Spain ’ s colonial
Rafael Anderson success , the complexities and contradictions of its culture are better expressed here than anywhere else .
Between 1885 and 1916 , Carl Faberge made fifty jewelled eggs as Easter presents from Russia ’ s last two emperors to their wifes . The eggs are examples of the ingenuity and creativity of their time but have also become symbols of the decadent
Tony Faber
The lecturer Rafael Anderson is an architect , writer and historian . He runs a multidisciplinary architectural practice in Granada entitled “ Future Ancient Technologies .”
Members free . Guests € 10 .
For more information about either lecture go to : www . theartssocietynerja . com
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