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SPIRITUAL EDUCATION
PROGRAM
First in a Series of Adult Spiritual Continuing Education Programs
Sponsored by The Women's Retreat
Ministry
Spirituality
and Art:
Gian Lorenzo BERNINI,
Sculptor
to 9 Cardinals, 8 Popes & 2 Kings
INCLUDS: Tour of the Exhibition
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
at the
Getty
Center
PROF. RONALD E. STEEN
Art Historian & Art Educator
Seven
Sessions: Tuesdays, October 14, through
December
2, 2008
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
(Excluding, Tuesday, November 25th of Thanksgiving week.)
Tour date: Oct. 21st.
10:00
a.m.
to
noon
Illustrations:
Detail, Bernini, “Cardinal Scipione Borghese”, 1632, marble,
Galleria Borghese,
Rome
Detail, Bernini, “Baldacchino” & “Cathedra Petre”,
1624-1633, marble, bronze, St. Peter’s
Rome
Classes
held at: St. Philip's
151 So. Hills Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106
Parish
Ministry
Center,
Room 2, Parking: Free
Lot
(Thomas Brothers 2006 Guide, page 566-B5)
Tour
conducted at: The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
,
Los Angeles
,
California
90049
(Thomas Brothers Guide 2006, page 631-G1)
REGISTRATION
FEE.........................................
..$150.00
Includes:
All Lecturers & tour of Bernini Exhibition.
Excludes: Tour transportation and parking fee.
Advance registration is required.
Minimum 30, Maximum 45 Registrants.
This program is open to all
Adult Parishioners and Friends.
DEADLINE:
Tuesday
October 7, 2008
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ABOUT THE SERIES: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) is widely considered the
greatest Baroque sculptor. In
St. Peters
, in
Rome
he alone created the
main altar The Cathedra Petri,
over the high altar the Baldachino,
and the statue of St. Longinus
at the crossing. He
created on commission works for 9 Cardinals, 8 Popes and 2 Kings.
Moving in chronological order Prof. Steen will put the 17th
Century Baroque sculptor into historical context by addressing the
artist's work, techniques, influences, style, life, historical
significance and importantly the idea of spirituality in art.
Students will have a rare opportunity to
examine his work in person because the class coincides with
North America
's first major
Bernini exhibition, which will be at the
Getty
Museum
. In addition
to the class room lectures, Professor Steen will provide insightful
commentary as he leads the class through the exhibit.
With major loans from Italian museums, it is also the
first-ever comprehensive exhibit of Bernini's portrait busts.
Bernini was an extraordinary portrait artist who captured the
essence of his subjects with passion, dazzling virtuosity and
psychological insight. He had the unprecedented ability to
breathe life into the marble, shaping it in a dynamic way that
expressed both a physical likeness and also the living presence of
each individual. One of the show's most anticipated works is the bust
of Constanza Bonarelli, Bernini's mistress and the historical incident
where the face of Bernini’s brother is said to have been slashed in
a jealous rage over Constanza, causing the Pope to intervene.
The Getty exhibit goes on to include Bernini's portrait drawings, as
well as portrait busts by other sculptors from 17th-century
Rome
.Learn
about your Catholic spiritual heritage by discovering how it existed
in art in the 17th century!
THE SERIES FORMAT:
The
series will present the works of the artists in chronological order
and will include information about their work, techniques, influences,
style, and life and their significance for the history of Venetian
Art. Further information
about characteristic of the period as well as a cast of characters
will be included. This
series will include the state of the research on this topic at this
time in history. The
current facts as known not how the facts were acquired will be the
focus. Works in local
public collections will be highlighted.
NOTE: This
series is complete unto itself and not having been part of prior
series on the art of the Italian Renaissance including Mannerism
will not cause participants any disadvantages
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ABOUT PROF. RONALD E. STEEN: Prof.
Steen is a multi-degreed art historian working on the paintings of the
Seventeenth Century Dutch master and ancestor, Jan Steen.
He is also an art and museum educator, critic, curator, former
museum director, and former instructor of art history at
California
State
University
at
Fullerton
,
U.C.L.A. Extension, and has been an adjunct lecturer for the J. Paul
Getty Museum Education Department.
In 1982, Prof. Steen received the "Outstanding
Achievement in Museum Education Award", from the Museum
Educators of Southern California organization and in 1997 he received
the "Founding President
1979-1982 Award" from the same education organization.
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