ART HISTORY ALIVE: France’s Fascinating Art
October 9th – October 30th
ART HISTORY ALIVE: France’s Fascinating Art
October 9th, 11:00am | October 16th, 11:00am | October 23rd, 11:00am | October 30th, 11:00am
FRANCE’S FASCINATING ART: FROM THE GREAT MEDIEVAL CATHEDRALS TO POST-IMPRESSIONISM
A LECTURE SERIES WITH DR. JANETTA REBOLD BENTON, PH.D.
All Tickets $25 or each of the Series for $80
Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton
France is unequaled for her range of artistic styles and accomplishment–always with unparalleled French elegance and sophistication. Travel vicariously through the ages as these richly illustrated lectures examine the high points of architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts in France, from the late Middle Ages through Post-Impressionism, approximately 1000-1900.
October 9 – Middle Ages: Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals, sculpture, and stained glass: Romanesque, monsters, morals, and building methods from Autun to Vezelay. Gothic soaring cathedrals–Notre-Dame-de-
October 16 – Renaissance and Baroque: Chateaux of the Loire Valley; Poussin, Louis XIV at Versailles: Join Renaissance and Baroque French royalty and enjoy life in the splendid chateaux and gardens of Chambord, Chenonceau, Versailles, and elsewhere.
October 23 – Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism: Boucher, David, Gericault, Manet: The pendulum swings from light Rococo pastel fluff, to austere severe Neoclassicism, to Romantic escapes, and finally to the everyday genre scenes of Realism.
October 30 – Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Monet, Renoir, Degas, van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists depicted subjects from daily life, but while the Impressionists painted in terms of light and atmospheric conditions, the Post-Impressionists used color to express emotion and to analyze pictorial structure.
The Conversation Continues: Lunch with the Lecturer $25 – Limited space available.
To purchase a series or lunch with the Lecturer, please call the box office at (212) 346-1715.
Lecturer’s Website: http://
Learn more about this series and Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton at this Huffington Post blog post! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-blackmore-Dobbyn/janetta-rebold-benton-med_b_4077418.html
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