Autumn 2013 - Spring 2014

Impressionist Paintings from Private Collections

Cartier Bresson

Conde Nast

Josephine - Napoleon's Wife and Empress 

I Augustus, Emperor of Rome 

The Archive of Dreams 

Vincent van Gogh and Antonin Artaud 

Carl Larsson  

Les Fetes Galantes: Watteau to Fragonard 

Paris 1900: The City of Spectacles 

Robert Maplethorp 

Love and Courtship in the Intellectual Salons of the 18th C 

l'Hotel  de Soubise

The Story of the Portrait in European Art

The German, French and Flemish Portrait: Durer, Holbein, Cranach, Gossaert, Van Cleve 

Part I: High Renaissance Portrait in Rome and Venice: Raphael, Bellini, Giorgione and Early Titian

Part 2: 1500 - 1580 Renaissance II: From Raphael to Titian

Italian High Renaissance Portraits

Autumn 2012 - Spring 2013 

• Islamic Art at the Louvre
• The Michael Werner Collection
• Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens: Flemish Baroque painting from the Belgian Royal Art Museum collections
• Fashioning Fashion: European fashions from 1700 to 1915. 
•  Musée Cognacq-Jay

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Kings, Queens and Royal Mistresses of France

Course Schedule Sep - Oct 2012

KQ&M:Renaissance   

KQ&M: Baroque 

Val de Grace   

Love and Courtship and the Intellectual Salon in French Art of the 18th C 

• Watteau and the Birth of the Fete Gallante -- Paris under the Regency 
  
• Love, Courtship and the Intellectual Salon 
• Hotel de Soubise 

• Special Exhibits Autumn 2012

Gerhardt Richter - Panorama Retrospetive at the Pompidou

Canaletto - Guardi The Two Masters of Venice at the  Jaquemart André 

Hiroshige

Van Gogh

Dali Retrospective

Marc Chagall between Peace and War

Raphael 

Hopper 

Autumn 2011- Spring 2012

History of Paris

• The History of Paris with Chris Boïcos - Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 8:
  Paris under the Second Empire II (1860-1870), the Commune and the beginning of the Third Republic (1871-1880)
• Opera Garnier (1861 - 1875) 
  
• The Commune and the Beginning of the 3rd Republic
• The History of Paris with Chris Boïcos - Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 9:
  
    Paris of the Belle Epoque (1880-1900)
• The History of Paris with Chris Boïcos and Dimitri Papalexis for fashion Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 10: Paris at the turn of the century (1900-1920)
• Paris 1900- 1916 
  
• Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 11: Paris of the “années folles” (1918-1929)
• Paris 1919 - 1929 Art Deco
• Paris 1919 - 1929 Left Bank
• Cité d'Architecture 
  

Special Exhibitions

Spring 2012

• Misia Sert
• Artemisia Gentileschi
• Cima da Conegliano
• Berenice Abbott
• Jews in Orientalist Art
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) – A Finnish passion 
  
• The New Impressionist Galleries at the Musée d’Orsay
• Henri Matisse – Pairs and series
• Degas and the Nude
• Saint Anne – Leonardo da Vinci’s ultimate masterpiece

Winter 2012 

• Beauty, Morality and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde
• Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso... the Stein Collection 
• Berlin-Munich 1905-1920 : Der Blaue Reiter versus Die Brücke 
• Cézanne and Paris  
• The Dutch Golden Age: The Kremer Collection   
• Diane Arbus at the Jeu de Paume  
• Henri Cross andNeo-Impressionism from Seurat to Matisse
• Alexander the Great 
  
• Fra Angelico andthe Masters of Light 
  
• The New Impressionist Galleries at the Musée d'Orsay

Paris Walks 

• Historic Marais
• Paris of Louis XIV Royal Squares
• Paris of Louis XV Pantheon to Odeon 

Spring 2011

History of Paris

• Paris 1814 - 1830 Bourbons, Louis XVIII, Charles X 
• French Revolution and Napoleonic France 1789 -1814
• Josephine and Malmaison 

Special Exhibits

• Cranach the Elder
• Romanov Treasures
• Caillebotte 
• Manet

Winter 2011

•  Paris under the Bourbons: The Age of Enlightenment: The Reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI, 1724-1789
• Marie-Antoinette

Special Exhibits

• Gerome
• Nussbaum
• Marmottan
• Mondrian
• Matisse 

Late Autumn 2010

History of Paris

• The End of Louis XIV and the Regence, 1680-1723 
• The End of Louis XIV and the Regence, 1680-1723, 2 

 Special Exhibits

• Basquiat 
• Nittis
• Mondrian and der Stijl
• Gerome

Autumn 2010

History of Paris

• Paris: 1643-1690

Special Exhibits

• Monet I 
• Monet II 
• Ideal History of Fashion: 1970s and 1980s
• Arman
• André Kurtész
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• France 1500 at the Grand Palais 

Late Spring 2010

History of Paris:

• Paris: 1547-1589
• Paris 1589-1643
• Paris: 1589-1610 
• Paris 1610-1643
• Hotels particuliers of the Marais

Paris Walks: Spring 2010

• Parc Monceau 

Spring 2010

• Crime & Punishment
• Vanities
• Munch
• Yves Saint Laurent
• Sainte Russie
• Greco to Dali
• Turner
• Lucien Freud

History of Fashion

• 18thc Costume 

Winter 2010 

 Special Exhibits 

• Louis XIV  
• Vionnet
• Isadora Duncan
• Robert Doisneau

• Ingres
• Delacroix
• Corot

Autumn 2009 

Special Exhibits 

• Fauves and Expressionists
• James Ensor
• Byzantium
• Golden Age of Dutch Art
•  Renoir
•  Brukenthal Collection
•  Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Venetian Rivals
•  Toulouse-Lautrec Posters
•  Cartier-Bresson
• Women at the Pompidou
• Children: Renoir to Arditti

Great Masters of European Art 2009 - 2010 

     Part 7: Art in the Age of Revolution 

• JL David
• Vigée Lebrun
• Goya

• Watteau
• Boucher
• Chardin 

Paris Walks Autumn 2009 

• Montmartre
• Montparnasse
• Passy Auteuil

Great Masters of European Art 2008 - 2009 

• Champaigne
• Velasquez
• Rembrandt
• Rubens
• Van Dyck
• Caravaggio
• Italian Baroque Masters
• Mannerism
• Titian
• Tintoretto
• Veronese
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Bellini
• Mantegna

Special Exhibits

Late Spring 2009

• Mansart
• Phillipo Lippi  
• Kandinsky
• Utrillo Valadon

Spring 2009

• Robert Frank
• de Chirico
• Italian Primitives
• Calder in Paris
• Warhol Portraits
• William Blake

• Albert Marquet
• Kostakis Collection
• Jackson Pollock
• Pastels of the Musée d'Orsay
• Lee Miller
• Germany - The Dark Years

• Picasso and the Masters
• Villeglé
• Emil Nolde
• Futurism
• Raoul Dufy
• Bonaparte and Egypt
• Avedon
• Mantaegna
• van Dyck

Autumn 2007 Spring 2008

• Varian Fry and the Surrealists
• Lovis Corinth
• Shoji Ueda
• Vlaminck