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Art History: City of Art
Call (408) 247-9340 or email education@tritonmuseum.org for information and registration.
What happens when you take a little bit of Rick Steves, mix in a touch of Sister Wendy, and add a whole bunch of Chief Curator Preston Metcalf’s excitement and scope of Art History? You get the Triton Museum of Art’s next series of Art History lectures: City of Art.
Beginning September 15, and continuing through November 3, Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m., the Triton Museum will present City of Art, a series of 8 lectures on cities whose art, history, politics, commerce, and culture have created destinations where the city itself has become a work of art. Join Preston as he takes you on armchair guided tours of the art and architecture of these remarkable locations.
Fee: TMA members $110, non-members $120, $20 drop-ins
Florence: A Family Like No Other
In the 15th and 16th Centuries, one Tuscan family rose to such power that they defined the role of patron from that time forward: the Medici. Dominating politics, banking, commerce, and civic life they personally cultivated and supported the leading artists of the day including Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Brunelleschi, many others and under the guiding hand of the Medici the Renaissance was born.
Athens: Man is the Measure of All Things
Following the Peloponnesian War, Athens emerged as the world’s first democracy. Led by the dynamic Pericles, this new society gave us some of the greatest thinkers and artists the world has ever known. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, and the creators of such masterworks as the Acropolis and the Doryphoros (Michelangelo’s model for the David) gave us the standards by which all of Western civilization would be measured.
Kyoto: Imperial Glory in the Era of Shoguns
For centuries feudal Japan evolved into a highly structured and layered society. At the top of the social classes were two powers: the imperial court headed by the Emperor, and the military class, dominated by the real supreme power, the Shogun. The dominance of the Shogunate resulted in a leisure class of the imperial court and the flourishing of the arts, architecture, and letters. Militarism, leisure excesses, and the introduction of a spiritual self-reliance through Zen Buddhism gave us a culture and city like no other: Kyoto.
Rome: Bernini's Baroque Explosion
There are many Romes: the remnants of the great Roman Empire, Rome of the High Renaissance of Michelangelo and Pope Julius II, the contemporary art center of modern day Italy, and, of course, the dramatic and theatrical Rome of the Baroque era, dominated by the prolific and gifted Bernini. Everywhere one looks in this great metropolis Bernini has made his mark. But his is a story that is not all fame and glory, especially when affected by love, greed, betrayal, and revenge.
Madrid: Surviving Napoleon
He was the artist of the Royal Court, and was forced to serve the usurping King Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother), but the artist Goya secreted another side to his art. Highly critical to the abuses of power, Goya’s art helped restore Spanish pride in the wake of foreign occupation.
Paris: Soaring in Gothic Spendor
It was an age of darkness and ignorance. Plaque, famine, incessant warfare, and the iron fist of the Medieval Church cast long shadows of uncertainty, but amidst it all came a shining ray of hope: the soaring light of the Gothic, and through its art the human spirit rose as high as the towering cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris.
Venice: A Lover's City
For the renowned and legendary lover Casanova, there was no other city like Venice. And he experienced it all, from the decaying splendors of a Renaissance past to the ornate opulence of the Baroque; from the elegance of Palladian villas to the fearful crossing of the Bridge of Sighs and incarceration in the prisons beneath the Doge’s Palace. But Casanova danced through it all. After all, as Casanova would have said, in Venice, what’s not to love?
Washington DC: A Neoclassical Birth
The United States was a new nation, an experiment in the making. But what would this new nation look like? Thomas Jefferson, the great polymath of Virginia had the answer. This newly formed republic required a visual identity, and what better image to project than the former glories of Republican Rome and Democratic Greece. A distinctly American form of Neoclassicism was born and under Jefferson’s guidance Washington D.C. gained the classical contours it maintains to this day.
ArtExcursion: Masters of Venice at the de Young Museum
Call (408) 247-9340 or email education@tritonmuseum.org for information and registration.
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Fees: $50 for de Young members; $66 for non de Young member
Join us for an exciting trip to Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna at the de Young Museum. Please meet in the parking lot adjacent to the Triton Museum at 8:50a.m.. The bus will depart at exactly 9:00a.m. with an estimated arrival at the de Young Museum at 10:30a.m. Purchase your lunch at the de Young Cafe and join the staff at 12:30p.m. for some lively conversation. We will depart the de Young Museum at 2:30p.m., with an estimated arrival time of 4:00p.m. at the Triton Museum.
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