Adding to scheduled speaking events noted on this website in the Courses page, Patrick Hunt gives frequent lectures in the San Francisco Bay Area. These may occur as museum events or guided tours, such as a recent illustrated lecture in April, 2005 titled "Persian Art: Safavid Miniature Paintings 1500-1700" in the Cantor Center for the Arts (Stanford University Museum) and two recent lecture tours in the Cantor Center for the Arts "Precolumbian Art and Archaeology" in that gallery in early June, 2005 as well as a lecture tour at the Berkeley Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley on "Rubens: The Master's Painted Sketches" in May, 2005.

Other recent Stanford lecture series include "Art of the Silk Road", Cantor Center for the Arts, March, 2004. Prior art lectures include topics like "Caravaggio Mocks the Prohibition of Scandalous Models", "Rembrandt and the Bible", "Samson and Delilah in Art from Mantegna to Rubens", "Rembrandt and Mythology", Gustav Klimt and Mythology", "Judith and Holofernes in Art", "Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne", "Abbe Suger's Theory of Light", "Susannah and the Elders in Art from Botticelli to Thomas Hart Benton". Prior archaeology lectures include "Egyptian Stoneworking Genius", "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World", "Excavations at the Grand-St-Bernard Pass 2000-03", "Alpine Clouds With Silver Linings: A Roman Silver Coin Hoard", "Tracking Hannibal" Archaeology in 2004", "Castles: from Roman Forts and Motte and Bailey to 15th c. French Follies of the Duc de Berry".

Some lectures are paid, ticketed private events and others are free to the community. They will be open and without charge as posted here unless otherwise noted.



Upcoming 2007 Patrick Hunt lectures include:


Check back soon for additional lectures. Thank you.


Previously Offered Living Room Lectures



- Living Room Lectures (LRL) Atherton-Los Altos Hills
-new series on ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE for Winter and Spring 2007 (email Patrick for details)

- Living Room Lectures (LRL) Marin County on the new series "Great Lives from History" (Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, Nero, Constantine the Great, Charlemagne and more)

- Living Room Lectures (LRL) Marin County
"Constantine the Great" and "Charlemagne" for Jan/Feb lectures

- Living Room Lectures (LRL) Atherton-Los Altos Hills on the new series "Archaeology and Ancient Technology"

- Living Room Lectures - (LRL) Napa Valley
-"Erasmus and the Renaissance" for Jan. 5 lecture

-A Panel Discussion on Provenance and Ownership at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, November 16

- LRL in Hillsborough and San Francisco to be announced


November 2006
- Living Room Lectures - (LRL) Napa Valley
--November 17
-- "The Genius of Rembrandt"

- Living Room Lectures - (LRL) - Marin County
--November 30
-- "Great Persons in History: Nero the Not-So-Great"

-Living Room Lectures, San Francisco, CA
--April 2006
--“Charlemagne and His Legacy”

-Living Room Lectures, Hillsborough, CA
--April 2006
-- “Charlemagne and His Legacy”

October 2006
- Living Room Lectures - (LRL) Napa Valley
--October 13
--"What Started the Renaissance?

- Living Room Lectures - (LRL) - Marin County
--October 26
--"Great Persons in History: Alexander the Great"

- Docent Lecture in the Ancient Art Gallery
--October 19
--Stanford Museum, Cantor Center for the Arts

-Pacific Union Club, San Francisco
--October 30
--"Carthage and Rome: Why were they Eternal Enemies?"

-Living Room Lectures, Los Altos Hills-Atherton
-- April 2006
-- two lectures on “Classical Turkey and Byzantium”

-"Bacchus and Wine Mythology" in March at Pacific Union Club in San Francisco

-"Caravaggio" in February 2006 at Christie's in Beverly Hills

-Living Room Lectures San Francisco, CA
-Fall 2005 : October 18th to October 20
---October 18, De Young Museum Tour, Hatshepsut exhibition.
---Details on request.

-Living Room Lectures Hillsborough, CA
-Fall 2005. Times and Locations provided on request.
---September 27th "Greek Mythology Through Palindromes"
---October 25th "Thera, The Aegean Paradise"
---November 29th "The Tomb of The 10,000 Warriors"

-Living Room Lectures Los Altos Hills, Atherton, CA
---November 16th 7:30 pm "Rembrandt's Mythological and Biblical Art" (location provided on request)

-Living Room Lectures Napa Valley, CA
-Fall 2005. Time and Location to be announced.