manities Humanities
“I very much appreciated the instructor’s style, [Elizabeth Merrick’s] obvious extensive knowledge of the subject matter, and her enthusiasm for the topics she covered. As a non-historian myself, I don’t always find it easy to engage with this type of material, but in this case that was no problem at all!” —LYNNE K., BOSTON BY CENTURY: HOW HISTORIC PLACES TELL THE TALE
ART HISTORY SOME ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW FROM ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE 17TH CENTURY
MORE THAN IMPRESSIONISM: ART FROM 1860-1900 Susan Glassman | Ph.D., English, University of Rhode Island
The years 1860 to 1900 are often called the Age of Impressionism, a time when artists such as Monet, This course explores Italian and Dutch artists whose Pissaro, Renoir, and Degas showcased a new way of paintings are represented in museums in the United depicting the world, with eeting impressions of their surround States. The artists will include Guercino, Caravaggio, These works, which we now revere, were considered dismissively Hendrick Goltzius, Pieter Lastman, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerbrand radical. But during this period there were also many artists who did not van den Eeckhout, Aert de Gelder and others. Famous and successful work in this new mode. They included Bouguereau, Daumier, Henri in their lifetime, their names may be less familiar but their paintings are Rousseau, Munch and many others. Join us for an exploration of both fascinating. Where possible, examples of their work in nearby Impressionist and non-Impressionist artists working during th museums will be discussed in depth. challenging time. At each session, we will view works by three or four COURSE CODE: ITNE of these artists, learn interesting facts about their lives, the characterSec. 01: 3 Wednesdays, 3-5pm. Begins Nov. 9 | $110 istics of their art, and their contributions to art history. Amy Golahny | Professor of Art History Emerita, Lycoming College
C O U R S E C O D E : M I TA Sec. 01: 7 Fridays, 2-3:30pm. Begins Sep. 23 | $240
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