through a sponsorship from
the Friends of the New Canaan Library,
announces the first ArtScapades lecture
of a six-part series on European Art.
On Monday, September 30th, the series begins with a look at Neoclassicism. Moving beyond the excesses of Rococo art, this lecture gives the history of factors that brought Neoclassicism into favor including the rise of scientific thinking and the social changes brought about by the French Revolution. This lecture covers Vien, Mengs, Kauffman, David and Ingres.
The series continues on Monday, October 28th with Romanticism: From Rational to Emotional as ArtScapades looks at the subsequent move away from reason and towards emotion. Included in the lecture on Romanticism are works by Goya, Friedrich, Constable, Turner and Delacroix.
To register, and for more information, visit http://newcanaanlibrary.org/events/artscapades-fall-2013-neoclassicism.
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Portrait of Antoine- Lauren Lavoisier and His Wife, Jacques-Louis David, 1788
