Andrei Rublev & the Hesychastic Mysteries of Byzantium

The Edgar Wind Society for the History of Art will be hosting a discussion with Sir Richard Temple, founder of The Temple Gallery in London. The gallery was founded in 1959, and has sold icons to a huge range of public and private collectors, including to the British Museum and the Louvre. Richard Temple himself has been referred to as one of the 'foremost' icon dealers in Europe by no less a luminary than Kurt Weitzmann. The talk will be wide-ranging, touching on Andrei Rublev, hesychasm, and some of Richard's personal history collecting and selling icons. It is completely free, and will be held at the House of St Gregory and St Macrina, not too far from St. Anthony's College and the Maison Française. The discussion will commence at 6pm, followed by refreshments afterwards.