Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Shirley graduated from the University of East Anglia with a First Class Honours in the History of Art and winner of the Dissertation Prize, specialising in the Italian and Northern Renaissance. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she has lectured part-time lecturer at the University of East Anglia and with the Institute of Continuing Education of the University of Cambridge, for whom she runs Residential Weekend courses and Day Schools.
A great advocate of interdisciplinary learning, Shirley has co-ordinated with lecturers in Music and Literature in her Renaissance courses. She also lectures to various Arts Societies,
Her essay on ‘The Fresco Decoration in the Sistine Chapel: Biblical Authority and the Church of Rome’ appears in The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts published by Edinburgh University Press in 2014.
Images of Boccaccio’s *Decameron* from the Middle Ages to the present in preparation for a joint study of the text with Dr. Anna Bristow for a weekend course at Madingley Hall.
The works of Leonardo da Vinci at the court of Milan in conjunction with a forthcoming exhibition of the same to be held at the National Gallery in London and also for a joint course with Mr. Craig Gershater on the military, engineering, art and architectural works of Leonardo during his time at the court of Milan, to be held at Madingley Hall in 2012.
The Italian Renaissance: New Prespectives of Man and his World. Investigation into the ways in which Italian Renaissance Artists innitiated and responded to the new awareness inthis period of man and his world. and how this was reflected in their representations of themselves and their environment.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Higher Education Academy
