5-Part Art History Mini Series with Preston Metcalf - 3rd Thursdays in Santa Clara

5-Part Art History Mini Series with Preston Metcalf - 3rd Thursdays

Date: 04/19 Thursday - 08/16 Thursday

Third Thurs of month: 7pm-8:30pm

April 19 The Amazing Adventures of La Gioconda

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous painting in the world. What is not so well known is her colorful history, from its creation to art theft and ransom, and its WWII exploits as it traveled from hiding place to hiding place, all the while staying one step ahead of the Nazis.

May 17 Jung vs. Freud: A Surrealist's Dilemma

In the early 20th Century, art of the mind--Surrealism--altered the way we look at art and ourselves, thanks to the ideas generated by Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Join us as we explore how these two men gave us two opposing paths that ultimately defined modern art.

June 21 Anonymous was a Woman

To read many of today's Art History texts, one would think that women were but bit players in the pre-20th Century history of art. Not so. We may not know their names, but join is as we introduce you to the creators of some of the world's great masterpieces...created by women.

July 19 Hamlet and David: The Renaissance Invention of the Human

Near contemporaries William Shakespeare and Michelangelo gave us what are considered to be the pinnacle of visual and literary portrayals of humanity. Join us as we explore these two works and others by these two giants of the Renaissance. They were, after all, telling the story of us.

August 16 Those Naughty, Naughty Artists!

From the Early Renaissance Fra Filipo Lippi, and his six simultaneous common-law wives (all nuns, the Pope was not pleased), to revelations of artists dallying with royalty (and each other), this whimsical lecture looks at the deliciously naughty underside of Art History. It is a wonder some of these artists even found time to paint!

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