Goncourt Brothers and the Taste for the Eighteenth Century
Olivier Berggruen and Yuriko Jackall examine the life and enduring influence of brothers Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, nineteenth-century connoisseurs and ...
The Frick Collection
For the Love of It: Collecting Drawings in the Nineteenth Century
For the Love of It: Collecting Drawings in the Nineteenth Century Petra ten-Doesschate Chu Lecture Minneapolis Institute of Arts Sunday, February 15, 2009 ...
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Viewing 18th-Century Venice with Canaletto and Casanova
Viewing 18th-Century Venice with Canaletto and Casanova Frederick Ilchman, Chair, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Although well past its peak ...
Dartmouth
Innovative Prints by Mary Cassatt and British Modernists | Insider Insights
Learn about Mary Cassatt's groundbreaking color aquatints and a dynamic series of linocuts produced by early-20th-century British artists in this discussion with ...
The Met
Printmaking in Piranesi's Time
Dr Colin Holden, Exhibition curator of Rome: Piranesi's vision, outlines the extraordinary skill and artistry 18th-century master printmaker Giovanni Battista ...
State Library Victoria
Drawing with Charcoal: Historical Techniques of 19th Century France
Charcoal drawing techniques were perfected in France in the 19th century and taken to new expressive heights by artists such as Georges Seurat and Odilon ...
Getty Museum
A New Look at Impressionism: Millet and the Painters of Barbizon
From Jean-François Millet's representations of peasant life to the depiction of the solitudes of the forest of Fontainebleau by Théodore Rousseau and others ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rustic or Refined: The Arts of Renaissance France
Ian Wardropper Thursday, May 19, 2016, 5:30 pm King Francis I and his successors lured sophisticated artists to the château of Fontainebleau, transforming a ...
Yale University Art Gallery
Lequeu, exceptional draftsman?
Basile C. Baudez If it were not for his drawings at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Jean-Jacques Lequeu would be a simple footnote in the history of late ...
The Morgan Library & Museum
Brave Tars and Glorious Commanders: Painting and Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
In this exhibition opening lecture, Eleanor Hughes, Deputy Director for Art & Program at the Walters Art Museum speaks about the special display "Spreading ...
YaleBritishArt
Aimee Ng: "A Portrait and Its Mysteries: Parmigianino's Schiava Turca"
Parmigianino's exquisite Schiava Turca (Turkish slave) is shrouded in mystery. Who is this woman whose elaborate, almost theatrical, costume inspired an early ...
The Frick Collection
Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris
Join Helen Burnham, curator of the exhibition, for a closer look at Lautrec's life and key themes of the show, including the rise of celebrity culture and the poster ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Alan Wintermute: "Recently Rediscovered Paintings by Antoine Watteau"
Soon after Watteau's premature death in 1721, nearly three hundred of his paintings were engraved and published. Until recently, only about eighty of these ...
The Frick Collection
A look at extant 18th century shirts
Surviving 18th century shirts are very rare and what portraits and prints show is only one avenue of research. Here we will get a look into Mark Wallis's private ...
Neal Hurst
Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
This year marks the 300th birthday of the printmaker, architect, and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), and in celebration, exhibitions were ...
The Morgan Library & Museum
Introduction to the Exhibition—Degas at the Opéra
Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art Edgar Degas (1834–1917) is celebrated as the painter of dancers, a subject ...
National Gallery of Art
An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The extraordinary legacy of Philippe de Montebello, who served for 31 years as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During his tenure, Mr. de Montebello ...
Great Museums
In Our Time: The Museum of Modern Art
What do the superstars of modern art have in common with the Vincent Black Shadow motorcyle? They share the stage at New York City's Museum of Modern ...
Great Museums
LECTURE: Armin Kunz - December 02, 2018
Lecture: Collecting Old Master Prints in the 21st Century Armin Kunz, Owner, C.G. Boerner LLC, New York and Düsseldorf The introduction of printmaking in the ...
Portland Art Museum
Bronzino at the Court of Cosimo I de'Medici
Learn more about this exhibition: The Drawings of Bronzino on view at the Met January 20, 2010 - April 18, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/metbronzino A lecture by ...
The Met
Goya: The Most Spanish of Artists
Francisco Goya's paintings, drawings, and prints reveal a universal human experience as well as that which is uniquely Spanish. Gain an insider's knowledge of ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Fruits of Prosperity and Global Trade: Dutch Decorative Arts of the 17th Century
Thomas Michie, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe From everyday furnishings depicted ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exposición "El maestro de papel. Cartillas para aprender a dibujar de los siglos XVII al XIX"
Conversación entre José Manuel Matilla, jefe de Conservación de Dibujos y Estampas y María Luisa Cuenca, jefa de Área de Archivo, Documentación y ...
Museo Nacional del Prado
Kristel Smentek: Chinoseries for Beijing: An Eighteenth-Century French Gift to the Emperor of China
Kristel Smentek, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks about how in 1766 a set of chinoiserie tapestries designed by François ...
The Frick Collection
George Stubbs: portrait of the horse Whistlejacket | National Gallery
National Gallery Adult Learning Programmer Matthew Morgan gives an in-depth talk on George Stubbs's magnificent painting of the race horse Whistlejacket.
The National Gallery
Hokusai: The End of an Era
Hokusai died in 1849, just four years before the opening of Japanese ports to the West dramatically altered Japanese culture. See how Hokusai's art ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pontormo from Drawing to Painting
Join Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum, for a discussion on works by Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1557), executed between ...
The Morgan Library & Museum
Mary Cassatt's Pastels: The Sense of Touch
The pastel stick is the artistic medium most like the human finger. The stick disappears as it strokes the paper, symbolically leaving the “hand” of the artist lodged ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sublime and Grotesque: Ribera and the Art of Drawing
Speaker: Edward Payne, Senior Curator of Spanish Art, Auckland Castle A prolific draftsman, outstanding painter, and influential printmaker, Jusepe de Ribera ...
Meadows Museum Dallas
Collecting Drawings in the Twentieth Century: An Insider's Diary
Noël Annesley, Honorary Chairman, Christie's Fine Art, London, began his career at Christie's auction house in London in 1964 and has followed the market in ...
The Morgan Library & Museum
Yuriko Jackall: "The French Connection: Joseph Bonaparte, Point Breeze, and Old Masters..."
Yuriko Jackall, Assistant Curator of Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. This symposium is organized in conjunction with the Philadelphia ...
The Frick Collection
Chatsworth and Waddesdon: Collecting Then and Now
Sir David Cannadine speaks with Lord Rothschild (Jacob) and the Duke of Devonshire (Stoker) at The Frick Collection on November 5, 2014. This event was ...
The Frick Collection
Amsterdam's best art museum, the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is a huge world-famous collection presented in 80 galleries, exhibiting 8000 objects that tell the story of 800 ...
denniscallan
Canaletto's London Legacy - Dr Pat Hardy
This lecture will explore the extent to which Canaletto built upon the existing visual landscape of London and how much he adapted and innovated works by ...
Gresham College
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop
This autumn, the playful and powerful Pop art of Corita Kent fills the Copeland Gallery. Kent, a nun widely known as Sister Corita, was an important artist, teacher ...
Portland Art Museum
Poussin's 'Golden Calf' | Talks for All | National Gallery
This is part of our 'Talks for All' series. Dr. Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, the Myojin-Nadar Associate Curator of Paintings 1600-1800, discusses Poussin's 'The ...
The National Gallery
The History of Satirical Prints: Lecture by Emily Shinn
Lecture by Emily Shinn, JSMA Daura Foundation/Margo Grant Walsh Curatorial Extern in American and European Art In conjunction with her exhibition The ...
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Watercolor Rediscovered: Whistler in the Nineteenth Century
Recorded on Sunday, May 19, 2019, 2 pm Meyer Auditorium Freer Gallery of Art In conjunction with the opening of Whistler in Watercolor, explore the ...
Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Casanova's Europe: Venice
Venice in the 18th century was perhaps the most alluring city in Europe—the jewel of Italy. This glittering metropolis was the birthplace and most constant ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Russia - Erotic Art Exhibition In Moscow
T/I: 11:08:10 Muscovites are flocking to an exhibition of erotic art, the biggest ever to go on display in Russia, where it was banned until recently. More than 4000 ...
AP Archive
Re-thinking German Art
Magnificent German art on display in London's great galleries spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the modern era and provides plenty of surprises: the ...
Financial Times
American Landscape Painting: Albert Bierstadt and the American Land
Karen Quinn, Kristin and Roger Servison Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas Bierstadt became one of the most popular American landscape painters in the ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
