ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK

Coordinators: Linda Downs, Lynnel Garabedian, Bob Reiss, Ellen Shapiro

How does European art relate to contemporary concerns like family, relationships, class and identity?

Over the past year the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curators have re-installed the European collection after a new skylight was constructed. Each gallery is installed and labeled with topics that relate to life in the 21st century. Seven presentations will take us from the 14th to the 17th century with 20th century paintings interspersed throughout.

Topics range from personal spiritual practice; love and power in Venice; idealized figures and geometric space of the Italian Renaissance; politics versus religion in Henry V’s court; the artist’s home and studio; peasants versus the Spanish in the Netherlands; and Rembrandt’s humanity.

B WEEK / TUESDAY / 10:30 AM – NOON

Artists And Their Works Metropolitan Museum European Art Collection
Date	Presenter	Title
Sep 10	Marian Friedmann	Look Again: European Paintings 1300 – 1800
Sep 24	Lynnel Garabedian	Rembrandt, Vermeer, And Artists of the 17th Century Dutch Golden Age
Oct 08	Tamara Weinberg	Art of Everyday Life in The Dutch Golden Age
Oct 22	Ann Goerdt	The Development of European Landscape Painting
Nov 05	Susan Diehl	The Flowering of Italian Art Through the Impact of Music, Literature, And Politics
Nov 19	Ellen Shapiro	The Art of Venice: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese
Dec 10	Sandy Gordon	Spanish Masters: Murillo, De Ribera, And Zurbaran

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