Caravaggio is an artist who is so well known both through his dramatic paintings and through his equally dramatic life. In this lecture, art historian Gayna Pelham will look at the immediate impact his work had on the artists around him and how it is still influencing artists and other art forms today. From painting to film, opera to TV, Caravaggio's effect reverberates across the centuries and infiltrates our culture in more ways than we realise.

Speaker profiles

Gayna Pelham

Gayna Pelham is an art historian and artist living and working in London. Gayna has built her combined practice as a lecturer and practising artist at the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Courtauld, the Wallace Collection and Tate Britain amongst others. She also works in other fields such as the corporate sector with companies such as Apple and PWC as well as working with charities and other public organisations. Her background in classical music has often lead her to work in a cross arts capacity with orchestras such as the LCO and the RPO and she specialises in teaching adults to draw, especially those who feel they have never been able to do so.