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ArtScapades presents the following lectures:
The Italians: From Late Gothic to High Renaissance – ArtScapades explores the styles of the great Italian artists who worked in the 15th and 16th centuries, and laid the foundation for the development of western art. The lives and works of Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo Buonarroti will be discussed.
The Italian Renaissance: From Masculine Tradition to a Woman’s Perspective – ArtScapades continues to look at Renaissance art, and brings in women artists who were highly talented but under appreciated. This lecture looks at Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Sofonisba Anguissola, and Sister Plautilla Nelli.
The Northern Renaissance: From Big Picture to Minute Details –ArtScapades explains how as Renaissance art styles moved through northern Europe, they were adapted to local customs. This lecture details the lives and works of Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Great Women in Art: From Renaissance to Baroque – ArtScapades will look at the lives and works of four remarkable women, Sofonisba Anguissola, Sister Plautilla Nelli, Michaelina Wautier, and Artemisia Gentelleschi, who broke boundaries to achieve artistic acclaim, and paved the way for future generations of women artists.
Dutch and Flemish Baroque: From Posed Portraiture to Captured Moments – ArtScapades details how art moved forward led by the Dutch Realism School of the 17th century, leaving religious themes behind. This lecture explores Peter Paul Rubens, Michaelina Wautier, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jan Vermeer.
Italian Baroque: From Intense Drama to Dramatic Detail – ArtScapades continues to explore Baroque art, as major changes transformed the political and religious landscape in Italy. We will look at how artists injected theatrical realism into their paintings. Works by Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentelleschi and her father Orazio, are included.
Baroque Finale: From the Spanish to the French – ArtScapades will take a final look at Baroque art and discuss how the Spanish and French translated baroque themes in their cultures. This lecture discusses the lives and works of El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Georges de La Tour, and Charles Le Brun.
Three Titans of Spanish Art: El Greco, Velázquez and Goya – From the 16th century to today, Spaniards have made extraordinary contributions to the history of Western art. In this lecture, ArtScapades will look at three Spanish artists, the twin giants of 16th and 17th Spanish painting, El Greco and Diego Velázquez, and the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Francisco de Goya.
The Masters of Rococo: From Amorous Encounters to Swagger Portraits – ArtScapades looks at the lighter side of 18th century art. This lecture covers Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard , François Boucher, William Hogarth, Thomas Gainesborough, and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Neoclassicism: From Excessive to Classical – ArtScapades gives the history of factors which brought the movement into favor including the rise of scientific thinking, the Age of Enlightenment, and the establishment of Art Academies. This lecture chronicles the life of five artists and their works, Joseph-Marie Vien, Anton Raphael Mengs, Angelica Kauffman, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Romanticism: From Rational to Emotional – ArtScapades explores how the movement championed spiritualism over science, instinct over deliberation, and nature over industry. This lecture presents Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Caspar David Friedrich, Eugene Delacroix, John Constable, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, and looks at works by each of them.
Realism: From Dramatic to Ordinary – ArtScapades shows the move away from historical and literary themes towards common, ordinary subjects. This lecture will look at the the lives of, and works by, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, Jean-François Millet, Gustave Courbet and Rosa Bonheur.