Spring 2015

Special Exhibits 

Diego Velazquez 

The new 18th century furniture galleries at the Louvre 

The Tudors 

Baroque Rome - City of Vice and Misery 

Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession 

Lanvin 

Bonnard 

Friday series  

The Story of the Portrait in European Art

Part 7: Realism and Impressionism: The Bourgeois Portrait in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 

Realist and Impressionist portraiture: Courbet, Manet, Degas, Fantin-Latour, Tissot, Monet, Morisot, Renoir 

Part 6: The Romantic Period - European portraits 1800 - 1848

Napoleonic and Romantic portraits: David, Ingres, Gros, Prud'hon, Géricault, DelacroixWinter 2015

Winter 2015

Special Exhibits

Fashion Mix: French Fashion, Foreign Designers

Re-opening of the Musée Picasso

Viollet-le-Duc

The Spirit of Montmartre

Musée Cognac-Jay: A Christian Lacroix Selection

1944: Liberation of Paris - Paris Freed, Paris Photographed

Friday Series

The Story of the Portrait in European Art

Part V: the 18th Century

Roccoco and Neo-Classical Portraiture

The Age of Revolution: Guiard, David and Ingres

Francisco Goya and Enlightenment Portraiture in Spain

The Portrait in the Age of Enlightenment: Quenten Delatour, Perroneau, Vigée LeBrun, David

The Roccoco Portrait: Nattier, Boucher, Drouais, the Van Loos brothers

Autumn 2014

Jeff Koons 

Impression-Sunrise - The True Story of Monet's Masterpiece 

"Seen from the Front - Representing the Great War"

Paul Durand-Ruel and the Impressionists (Manet, Monet, Renoir) 

 Rhodes, a Greek Island at the Gates of the Orient 

The Story of the Portrait in European Art

Part 4: The 17th century - The Baroque Portrait in Spain, France and Italy. Velazquez, Bernini, Rigaud.

Part 3: 1540-1660 - The Late Renaissance and Baroque Portrait - from Titian to Rembrandt. 

Rubens biography 

Special Exhibits

Carpeaux - A Sculptor for the Empire

Perugino, Master of Raphael

Niki de Saint-Phalle

Leonardo to Michaelangelo -- The Borgias and Their Times

Emile Bernard Painting in Anger

Duchamp

Sonia Delaunay   

All the listings below will be moved to Handout Archives soon

Autumn 2013 - Spring 2014

Autumn 2012 - Spring 2013

• Islamic Art at the Louvre
• The Michael Werner Collection
• Rubens, Van Dyck, Lordaens: Flemish Baroque painting from the Belgian Royal Art Museum collections
• Fashioning Fashion: European fashions from 1700 to 1915.
• Musée Cognacq-Jay

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Kings, Queens and Royal Mistresses of France

Course Schedule Sep - Oct 2012

KQ&M:Renaissance  

KQ&M: Baroque

Val de Grace 

 

 Love and Courtship and the Intellectual Salon in French Art of the 18th C

• Watteau and the Birth of the Fete Gallante -- Paris under the Regency
  
• Love, Courtship and the Intellectual Salon 
• Hotel de Soubise
  

• Special Exhibits Autumn 2012

Gerhardt Richter - Panorama Retrospetive at the Pompidou

Canaletto - Guardi The Two Masters of Venice at the  Jaquemart André

Hiroshige

Van Gogh

Dali Retrospective

Marc Chagall between Peace and War

Raphael

Hopper

 

Autumn 2011- Spring 2012

History of Paris

• The History of Paris with Chris Boïcos - Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 8:
  Paris under the Second Empire II (1860-1870), the Commune and the beginning of the Third Republic (1871-1880)
• Opera Garnier (1861 - 1875)
  
• The Commune and the Beginning of the 3rd Republic
• The History of Paris with Chris Boïcos - Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 9:
  
    Paris of the Belle Epoque (1880-1900)
• The History of Paris with Chris Boïcos and Dimitri Papalexis for fashion Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 10: Paris at the turn of the century (1900-1920)
• Paris 1900- 1916
  
• Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 11: Paris of the “années folles” (1918-1929)
• Paris 1919 - 1929 Art Deco
• Paris 1919 - 1929 Left Bank
• Cité d'Architecture
  

Special Exhibitions

Spring 2012

• Misia Sert
• Artemisia Gentileschi
• Cima da Conegliano
• Berenice Abbott
• Jews in Orientalist Art
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) – A Finnish passion
  
• The New Impressionist Galleries at the Musée d’Orsay
• Henri Matisse – Pairs and series
• Degas and the Nude
• Saint Anne – Leonardo da Vinci’s ultimate masterpiece

Winter 2012

• Beauty, Morality and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde
• Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso... the Stein Collection 
• Berlin-Munich 1905-1920 : Der Blaue Reiter versus Die Brücke 
• Cézanne and Paris  
• The Dutch Golden Age: The Kremer Collection  
• Diane Arbus at the Jeu de Paume 
• Henri Cross andNeo-Impressionism from Seurat to Matisse
• Alexander the Great
  
• Fra Angelico andthe Masters of Light
  
• The New Impressionist Galleries at the Musée d'Orsay

Paris Walks

• Historic Marais
• Paris of Louis XIV Royal Squares
• Paris of Louis XV Pantheon to Odeon

Spring 2011

History of Paris

• Paris 1814 - 1830 Bourbons, Louis XVIII, Charles X
• French Revolution and Napoleonic France 1789 -1814
• Josephine and Malmaison

Special Exhibits

• Cranach the Elder
• Romanov Treasures
• Caillebotte
• Manet

Winter 2011

•  Paris under the Bourbons: The Age of Enlightenment: The Reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI, 1724-1789
• Marie-Antoinette

Special Exhibits

• Gerome
• Nussbaum
• Marmottan
• Mondrian
• Matisse

Late Autumn 2010

History of Paris

• The End of Louis XIV and the Regence, 1680-1723 
• The End of Louis XIV and the Regence, 1680-1723, 2

Special Exhibits

• Basquiat
• Nittis
• Mondrian and der Stijl
• Gerome

Autumn 2010

History of Paris

• Paris: 1643-1690

Special Exhibits

• Monet I
• Monet II
• Ideal History of Fashion: 1970s and 1980s
• Arman
• André Kurtész
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• France 1500 at the Grand Palais

Late Spring 2010

History of Paris:

• Paris: 1547-1589
• Paris 1589-1643
• Paris: 1589-1610
• Paris 1610-1643
• Hotels particuliers of the Marais

Paris Walks: Spring 2010

• Parc Monceau

Spring 2010

• Crime & Punishment
• Vanities
• Munch
• Yves Saint Laurent
• Sainte Russie
• Greco to Dali
• Turner
• Lucien Freud

History of Fashion

• 18thc Costume

Winter 2010

 Special Exhibits

• Louis XIV 
• Vionnet
• Isadora Duncan
• Robert Doisneau

• Ingres
• Delacroix
• Corot

Autumn 2009

Special Exhibits

• Fauves and Expressionists
• James Ensor
• Byzantium
• Golden Age of Dutch Art
•  Renoir
•  Brukenthal Collection
•  Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Venetian Rivals
•  Toulouse-Lautrec Posters
•  Cartier-Bresson
• Women at the Pompidou
• Children: Renoir to Arditti

Great Masters of European Art 2009 - 2010

     Part 7: Art in the Age of Revolution

• JL David
• Vigée Lebrun
• Goya

• Watteau
• Boucher
• Chardin 

Paris Walks Autumn 2009

• Montmartre
• Montparnasse
• Passy Auteuil

Great Masters of European Art 2008 - 2009

• Champaigne
• Velasquez
• Rembrandt
• Rubens
• Van Dyck
• Caravaggio
• Italian Baroque Masters
• Mannerism
• Titian
• Tintoretto
• Veronese
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Bellini
• Mantegna

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