ART STUDY CLASSES: SERIES
Steen Art Study III: ORANGE COUNTY

FALL 2008
Celebrating 19th Anniversary

THE AGE OF BERNINI
Giovanni Guercino Painter, Pietro da Cortona, Architect/Painter,
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Sculptor/Architect, &
Francesco Borromini, Architect & Rival of Bernini
INCLUDS: Tour of the Exhibition
”Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture”
at the Getty Center Museum

CONDUCTED BY
PROF. RONALD E. STEEN
Independent Art Historian & Art Educator
       

  

Illustrations (all are details)
Guercino, “Aurora”, 1621-1623, ceiling fresco, Casino Ludovisi, Rome
Pietro da Cortona, “Triumph of Divine Providence, 1633-1639, ceiling fresco, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Bernini, “Cardinal Scipione Borghese”, 1632, marble, Galleria Borghese, Rome
Bernini, “Baldacchino” & “Cathedra Petre”, 1624-1633, marble, bronze, St. Peter’s Rome

 SOLD OUT, as of April 16th, 
A waiting list is available.  
Please send registration form and full payment to be place on the waiting list.
Ten Sessions: 
Wednesdays, October 1 through December 10, 2008 , 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. , 
Tour date, Oct. 22nd.
(Excluding Thanksgiving week, Wednesday, November 26th)

St. Joseph Center
Conference Center: Second Floor Library Room
480 S. Batavia
Orange, CA 92868
Parking: Free Lot at S. Batavia & La Veta Ave.
(Thomas Brothers 2000 Guide page 799 F5)

REGISTRATION FEE THRU WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2008....$195.00

REGISTRATION FEE AFTER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2008....$215.00

Includes: Free Refreshments & Bernini Tour, 
Excludes: Tour transportation and parking.
Bus transportation to the "Bernini" Exhibition at the Getty Center $20.00
Minimum 50, maximum 65 registrants
DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008
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 and is currently a guest lecturer. 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.  

ABOUT THE BAROQUE AND THE SERIES: Chronologically, the term “Baroque” applies to the art of the 17th century.  Traditionally applied to the Catholic art of the Counter Reformation, the baroque actually embraces all the countries, Catholic and Protestant, of Western Europe .  Compared with the immediately preceding Renaissance and Mannerist styles, the Baroque is far more varied in its manifestations.  A naturalistic current coexists with a classicist or decorative one.  Clear differences separate the Italian tradition of the period from that of the Netherlands and the French tradition from the Spanish, Austrian and English.   Part I covered the work of the painters, Vicenzo Campi, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Annibale, Lodovico & Agostino Carracci, Guido Reni and the Architect Carlo Maderno.  Please note that this first series included the work of two women artists Sofonisba Anguisola and Lavina Fontana.  Part II covered the work of the Italian painter Caravaggio who influenced the development of Catholic Baroque art in Italy as well as art in all European countries.  While Part II covered the work of father and daughter artists Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi as well as Domenichino.  Part IV will cover the dynamic age of Bernini, sculptor/architect, including his contemporary architect Pietro da Cortona, the painter Giovanni Guercino and Bernini’s rival architect, Borromini.  A tour of the “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture” at the Getty Museum is included.  This exhibition will showcase the dazzling sculpture virtuosity of the Baroque portrait bust. .
            Subsequent series will cover the work in Italy of Orazio and Artemesia Gentileschi, Domenichinio, Giovanni Guercino, Pietro da Cortona, Bernini, Luca Giordano, Giovan Battista Gaulli, Andrea Pozz and the architect Borromini.  The Baroque in Holland will include Hals, Rembrandt, Sanredam and Vermeer, the genre painters. Bouwer, Leyster, Ter Borch, Metsu, De Hooch and Jan Steen as well as marine, landscape and still-life painting.  In France the Baroque will include Geroges de La Tour, Poussin, Claude Lorrain and the Architect Charles Le Brun.  Baroque in Austria will include Johann van Erlach, Lucas von Hildebrandt and Balthazar Neumann.  Baroque in Spain will include El Greco, Jusepe De Ribera, Velasquez and Cotan and in Flanders the work of Brughel, Rubens and in England Anthony van Dyck.

ABOUT 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 Baroque art country by country.  Further information about characteristics 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 in Southern California will be highlighted.

NOTE: This series is complete unto itself and not having been part of prior series on the art of the Italian Baroque including the work of the Carracci or Maderno will not cause participants any disadvantages

TOUR PROGRAM: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 , 2008

10 to 10:15 a.m.                 Arrive, park and check-in:
                                        PLEASE CAR POOL TO
                                        THIS SITE AS PARKING
                                         COULD BE LIMITED
                                          Main Place Shopping Center
                                                       N. Main Place Drive 
                                                      (on the East and Town & Country Dr.
                                                       on the west) and S. Maine St .
                                                       Orange , CA 92869
                                        (Thomas Brothers 2000 Map
                                         page 799-E6)
 10:30 a.m.                       Prompt departure via bus
 noon to 1:15 p.m.            Lunch on your own: Café 
                                         (buffet format) 
                                         or Restaurant 
                                                       (reservations required (310) 440-6810)
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.            Tour of The Bernini
                                         Exhibition with Prof. Steen
 3:30 to 5 p.m.                 Return to original destination

 

GUIDELINES:  
-         Membership is not extended beyond registered members and membership is not transferable.
-         Cancellation made prior to September 1, 2008 will be in full less a small handling charge.
-         No full or partial refund will be paid after September 1, 20078 , unless there is a waiting list.
-         A member may bring one guest free to any one lecture during the course of the series.

  
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND HOW TO REGISTER, SEE
ART STUDY CLASSES: SERIES INDEX,
STEEN ART STUDY III: ORANGE COUNTY,
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