Adding to scheduled courses and speaking events often noted on this website in the Courses page, Patrick Hunt gives frequent lectures in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere across the U.S. These may occur as museum events or guided tours, such as an 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 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 Stanford lecture series include "Art of the Silk Road", Cantor Center for the Arts, March, 2004, "Renaissance Vision in 2008 and "The Aztecs" in 2008 and "Mesoamerica: Jaguars, Jade and Feathered Serpents" in 2009. 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" , some of these frequently given between 2004-2009, as well as "Castles: from Roman Forts and Motte and Bailey to 15th c. French Follies of the Duc de Berry" offered several times between 2004-2009.

Some lectures are paid, ticketed private events and others are free to the community. They will often be open to the public and without charge as posted here unless otherwise noted by the venue. For more information, please contact Dr. Patrick Hunt or the venues noted.


Dr. Patrick Hunt’s Selected Lectures – Fall to Spring, 2009-2010

October 2009

Oct. 4  Stonestreet Winery, Sonoma Valley, “History and Mythology of Wine”
Oct. 8  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, “Art of the Bible: Seeing the Miraculous through the Eyes of the Great Masters”
Oct. 27  Stanford University SLE Lecture: “Greek Art: Vase Narratives and Myth”

November 2009

Nov. 4  Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, “Medieval Spolia in the Swiss Valais”
Nov. 5   Los Angeles Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) – “Alpine Archaeology in the Grand-St-Bernard”
Nov. 19  Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford Museum – “Mesoamerica: Jaguars, Jade and Feathered Serpents”

December 2009

Dec. 14  Authors’ Luncheon : Orphan Compassion  – Hillsborough Polo & Racquet Club
Dec. 15  Fromm Institute, San Francisco – “History of Castles: Enchantment and Embattlement”

January 2010

Jan. 8-10  Congregation Beth Jacob, RWC -  Scholar in Residence, “Sacred Word and Art”
Jan. 11   Peninsula Round Table, Burlingame - “Tracking Hannibal: Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2009”
Jan. 24   Les Bons Vivants, Rigolo Café , San Francisco - “Caravaggio’s Realism”

February 2010

Feb. 9    Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto – “Archaeology Confronts the Bible”
Feb. 16  Pacific Union Club, San Francisco – “Caravaggio’s Provocative Genius”

March 2010

Mar. 3    Center for African Studies, Stanford University, Africa Table, “Lust for Africa: Economic Geography and Africa’s Riches, the Why and Where”

Mar. 11 "Judith and Holofernes and Susanna and the Elders: Art Themes from Botticelli and Cranach to Klimt and Thomas Hart Benton", Pacfic Heights Salon, San Francisco

April 2010

Apr. 8-10   Renaissance Society of America, Venice, Italy, “Caravaggio’s Penitent Magdalen”

Apr. 16 Charleston, South Carolina Society, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) College of Charleston, "Tracking Hannibal in the Alps"

Apr. 18 New York, Long Island Society Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), "Tracking Hannibal in the Alps" Hofstra University

Living Room Lectures 2009-10 “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”

San Francisco -  1/12/10, 3/9/10
Marin – 9/10, 10/8, 11/12, 1/7, 2/4, 3/4
Hillsborough –  10/30, 12/11, 2/5, 3/9

Previous 2008-2009 Selected Lectures by Dr. Patrick Hunt include:


October 6 AUTHORS' LUNCHEON Marriott Hotel Burlingame
"Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History"

November 6 CALIFORNIA PALACE LEGION OF HONOR Lincoln Park San Francisco
10-12 am Gould Theater - Docents Lecture
"Mythology Lives on in the House of the Muses" Part I

November 15 OSHER LIFETIME LEARNING INSTITUTE S.J.S.U. San Jose 10-12 am
"Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History"

November 23 ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY UC BERKELEY 3-5 PM
AIA SF-Berkeley Panel "Tracking Hannibal 2008"

December 11 CALIFORNIA PALACE LEGION OF HONOR Lincoln Park San Francisco
10-12 am Gould Theater - Docents Lecture
"Mythology Lives on in the House of the Muses" Part II

January 13, 2009 SARATOGA FOOTHILL CLUB 11:30 AM
"Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History" (Thera and Plato's Atlantis)

January 22 TO KALON Willow Glen San Jose (Pine Street) 1:45 pm
"Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History"

February 28 STANFORD UNIVERSITY PARENTS' WEEKEND Saturday morning 10-12
"Tracking Hannibal 2008"

March 5, 12, 19, CANTOR CENTER for VISUAL ARTS - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
(Stanford Museum) Docents Lectures 4-6 pm
"Renaissance Visions: Myth and Art (Mantegna, Botticelli, Leonardo, Titian, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, etc.)

March 31-April 2 LITERARY SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST - Phoenix/Tucson, Arizona
"Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History"

LIVING ROOM LECTURES 2008-2009

"Myth and Art" Series

Napa Valley 9/12, 10/10, 11/14, 1/9, 2/13, 3/20
Hillsborough 10/24, 1/16, 2/20, 5/15
Marin 10/16, 11/13, 1/29, 2/26

Venues provided on valid request

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.