Learning from Home
We are delighted to introduce our
brand-new range of online resources and activities to support
parents teaching from home, teachers teaching remotely and all our
adult visitors.
Discover more about Frederic Leighton,
his magical house and Victorian art and culture. Explore arts and
crafts, stories, film content, tours, quizzes and games, tutorials,
and opportunities to find out more direct with our museum team with
our Ask a Question days.
Create and Make
Our Create and Make activity
sheets explore famous artworks in Leighton
House and encourage everyone to get
creative.
You will need art materials and
ideally access to the internet for research and a printer if you
want to keep the booklet.
CREATE AND MAKE 1: Clytie,
c.1895
Download the activity sheet (Clytie)
Watch the Story of
Clytie by storyteller Vanessa Woolf
CREATE AND MAKE 2: Orpheus
and Eurydice, 1864
Download the activity sheet (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Watch the Story of
Orpheus and Eurydice by storyteller Vanessa Woolf
CREATE AND MAKE 3: Echo and
Narcissus
Download the activity sheet (Echo and Narcissus)
Watch the
Story of Echo and Narcissus by storyteller Vanessa Woolf
CREATE AND MAKE 4: Icarus and
Daedalus, 1869
Download the activity sheet (Icarus and
Daedalus)
Watch the Story
of Icarus and Daedalus by storyteller Vanessa
Woolf
CREATE AND MAKE 5:
Clytemnestra, c.1874
Download the activity
sheet (Clytemnestra)
Watch the Story of
Clytemnestra by storyteller Vanessa Woolf on
YouTube
On the Road
With this programme of films and travelogues,
we share beautiful performances by exceptional musicians and
armchair travel with Leighton to some of the countries he
loved.
Be inspired by the artworks Leighton collected
and the sketches and paintings he made whilst abroad to get
creative at home.
1. ON THE ROAD TO...TURKEY
Leighton went on an long trip across Greece, Austria and Turkey
in 1867.
LISTEN
TO the French – Tunisian Harkan Duo as they perform
a Sirto, a vibrant and uplifting dance which grew extremely popular
in the 19th century.
2. ON THE ROAD TO...SPAIN
Leighton's visited Spain at least four times, between 1865 and
1869. His attraction for the Peninsula, although fascinating, is
little-researched and it is only known through half a dozen
landscape studies, often unidentified, and a lecture given to the
students of the Royal Academy in 1889.
Enjoy THIS
VIDEO by the super talented Harkan Duo performing
'Asturias', a beautiful piece by renown Spanish composer Isaac
Albeniz (1860-1909). Despite the name, the music is not
considered suggestive of the folk music of the northern Spanish
region of Asturias, but rather
of Andalusian traditions, a region that
Leighton depicted in many of his delicate
colour sketches.
3. ON THE ROAD
TO...ITALY
Leighton made a point of visiting his beloved Italy every year,
and found the country a constant source of inspiration. It was also
in Italy that he made two of the most significant friendships of
his life, with the Italian artist Giovanni Costa and the singer
Adelaide Sartoris.
Enjoy THE PERFORMANCE
of the brilliant classical guitarist Santy Masciarò, featuring two
pieces by Italian composers - Sonata K.380 by Giuseppe Domenico
Scarlatti (1685 – 1757) and Adagio in G Minor by Tomaso Giovanni
Albinoni (1671 – 1751).
Meet Lord
Leighton
Have fun colouring in and dressing Lord
Leighton’s figure with a variety of detachable outfits and
accessories to suit his role of Victorian artist, traveller and
socialite.
You will need A3 paper (ideally paperboard),
colouring pencils or paints, scissors and access to a printer.
Download the activity sheet here (Lord Leighton)
Further resources are available on
the Meet
Lord Leighton resources page.
Explore our Collections
THE ARAB HALL
INSCRIPTIONS
This new research sheds new light
into the inscriptions found in Leighton's Arab Hall and
present fascinating insights into the meaning
of the poems and Quran quotations featured
in his stunning collection of tiles. Findings also
suggest Leighton's aesthetic aspirations when designing the
arrangement of the tiles on the walls, dismissing some of the
rules of Arabic calligraphy to favour elements like symmetry
or harmony in the colour scheme.
The research has been conducted by
Souad Mohamad from the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre
with the help from the Al Manaar Women’s group. The group visited
the museum as part of our Community Access Scheme, and became
interested in deciphering the Arabic writings and make the
translations available to others visiting the Arab Hall.
Download the Arab Hall
Inscriptions booklet
THE FIVE SENSES
Leighton’s paintings often portray and
evoke sensory experiences- sounds, smells, tactile or textured
objects, movement, rich visual environments and even different
temperatures.
In this series of information sheets,
we will look at some of Leighton’s paintings through the five
senses lenses.
1. MOTHER AND CHILD
(CHERRIES) 1864-65 Blackburn Museum and Art
Gallery
Get inspiration from Leighton's
painting to create a dish with cherries or to design
a space for yourself as comfortable as the one in the painting.
DOWNLOAD
THE ACTIVITY SHEET (Mother and Child)
2. THE MUSIC
LESSON, 1877 Guildhall Art Gallery, City of
London
Get inspiration from Leighton's
painting to make or listen to music, visit a park or
garden to look for plants you like or rearrange objects in your
environment to suite your mood.
DOWNLOAD THE ACTIVITY SHEET (The Music Lesson)
3. LA NANNA (PAVONIA),
1859 Leighton House Museum
Perhaps you could be inspired by La
Nanna to dress differently today? Is there a combination
of colours, textures or materials which make you feel good? Are
there objects in your home which give you pleasure to look at or
touch?
DOWNLOAD THE ACTIVITY SHEET (La Nanna)
Our programme of online resources is supported by the National
Lottery Heritage Fund
