Comprises different sections (presumably different lectures) on the following topics: The re-birth of art in Tuscany, 52pp.; The Coming of Cimabue & Duccio, 50pp.; Giotto 1266-1336, 52pp.; The School of Siena, 51pp.; Tuscan Sculpture I, 50pp.; Tuscan Sculpture II, 48pp.; The Effect of Scholasticism upon Medieval Art, 51pp.; Masolino and Fra Angelico, 47pp.; Masaccio, 45pp.; Tuscan Sculpture at the beginning of the Fifteenth Century, 47pp.
Also includes sixteen handwritten letters, all addressed to Conway, relating to his lectures and work in art history (some asking him to give guest lectures at various institutions).
And includes six letterpress flyers, booklets, pamphlets and one leaflet with examination questions, relating to different lectures and courses delivered by Conway. Interestingly, one of these booklets lists the names of students following Conway’s “Course of Twelve Lectures on the History of Painting” at Croydon University - all of the students being women.
William Martin Conway, First Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937) was an English art historian, politician, cartographer and mountaineer. He was a lecturer at, among other institutions, University College, Liverpool as well as Cambridge University. In 1902, he published a work entitled Early Tuscan Art; some of the notes in the present manuscript might have well been used for this work, as the published book also contains sections on Giotto, the Sienese School, the effect of the Dominicans on art in the fourteenth century and Fra Angelico.
