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Autumn Salon: Raphael’s Platonic Vision for the Vatican

| 3pm Saturday 31 May 2025 | in Brunswick | Speakers: Martin Leckey & John Bigelow | Bookings Essential [BOOKED OUT] | Donations Accepted | Raphael represented ancient Greek cosmology in one of the most famous paintings of the High Renaissance at the Vatican in Rome. We show how Raphael uses “the School of Athens” Read more…

By Bernie Lewin, 3 weeks13 May 2025 ago
Excursion

Study Tour of Egypt: October 2025

Small Group Study Tour | 15- 27 October 2025 | + St Catherines & Mt Sinai 27 – 29 Oct | Flyer | This tour has been carefully designed to meet the interests of the Platonic Academy. While the highlights remain with the Pharaoh’s monumental ruins, we will also give Read more…

By Bernie Lewin, 6 months26 November 2024 ago
Excursion

The Sacred Geometry of Newman College

| 2.30pm, Saturday 30 November | Newman College, University of Melbourne | Bookings essential | Donations accepted | The heritage architect Arthur Andronas takes us on a tour of the Newman College halls of residence at the University of Melbourne where Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin expressed themes Read more…

By Bernie Lewin, 7 months18 November 2024 ago

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