THE MISTRESS OF ANIMALS. From the “Old Europe” and Neolithic Middle East into modern mythology and fairy, this goddess has been a powerful symbol of an earth spirituality.

THE DOVE has become the embodiment of the soft image of peace as comfort and warm feelings. But it has a far more venerable history. We’ll see how the image has evolved over the millennia.

THE OLIVE BRANCH. Closely associated with the Dove, it was the olive branch that God sent to Noah as a sign of peace and reconciliation. Is that what it’s supposed to be doing on the Great Seal of the USA too?

PEACE THE GODDESS. We’ll trace the development of imagery of the Greco-Roman goddess into modern allegory and symbol.

PEACE LIVES. Medieval lives of saints — legendary, fictional and historical — have offered inspiration to many visual artists. What do these images and their traditions tell us about our views of peacemaking?

RECONCILIATION and Kiss of Peace have long embodied peacemaking, not so much as a creative, as a restorative, process. We’ll look at visual examples for some consistent forms and symbols.

TRIUMPHS OF PEACE. Treaties, conquests, hegemonies were all celebrated in the arts of the Renaissance and Baroque in Europe. How much do they really have to tell us about peace, and of what type?

PEACEABLE KINGDOMS. The Prophets and the Vision of Peace of the Apocalypse have offered us new ages of peace and justice. We’ll examine how these traditions have evolved and shaped our own images of peace.

GOYA, TURNER and the 19th Century saw a new kind of art, one that broke with the triumphalist image of Peace and focused on victims and disasters. Can we trace the tradition any earlier than the Romantics?

THE 20th CENTURY. Picasso’s Guernica, Max Beckman’s and George Grosz’s disturbing images of post-war Germany offer us startling scenarios of the destruction of war on communities and individuals.

A NEW ART OF PEACE? Eric Gill, Duncan Grant and others began to combine their nonviolence with their art first in isolated communities and then in more formal associations. How strong was their influence?

PHOTOGRAPHY has had the greatest impact in the modern world in documenting the disasters of war. How well has it done in documenting peace?

THE ARTS OF THE ‘60s picked up on the new art of peace pioneered in the years after World War I and turned it into a counter-cultural manifesto. What’s happened to the art of the 60s under the impact of Sex, Drugs, Rock-n-Roll, and Marketing?