Alternate Thursdays • 1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. • Shapiro Wing CD
Coordinators: Art Martinez and Mitzi Herman
No era of artistic achievement is as renowned as the Renaissance, and no country holds a higher place in that period than Italy. The supreme works created in Florence, Rome, Venice, and other Italian cities by such masters as Leonardo Da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian have never been equaled and have established a canon of beauty that pervades Western culture to this day.
To view these works is to enter a world that is incomparably rich, filled with emotion and drama that is palpable, though sometimes mysterious to our modern sensibility. To study these works with an expert is to penetrate that mystery and gain a new appreciation for how these masterpieces were created and what they meant to the artists and people of the time. Professor William Kloss is your expert guide through this visual feast in an artist-centered survey that explores hundreds of different paintings and sculptures by scores of different artists. Two lectures (on a DVD by The Teaching Company) will be presented at each meeting, with discussion after each lecture.
Piero della Francesca - Legend of the True Cross
Pageant of Life in Renaissance Florence
September 24
The Heroic Nude
Sculpture Small and Large
October 8
Botticelli - Spirituality and Sensuality
Botticelli and the Trouble in Italy
Filippino Lippi
Leonardo da Vinci - Portraits and Altarpieces
Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper
Michelangelo - Florentine Works
November 19
Michelangelo - Roman Projects
Michelangelo - The Sistine Chapel Ceilings
December 10