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Saturday Seminar: Inspired by Antiquity: Napoleon, Josephine and the Empire Style
Saturday, April 19, 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., (9 a.m. check-in)
Hill Auditorium
$15 members; $20 non-members. Pre-registration is required for this program Tickets to the Museum are sold separately.
Christopher Johns will explore Napoleon and Josephine's interest in Neoclassical art, their collaborations with the designers Percier and Fontaine, and the impact of important archaeological discoveries such as Herculaneum and Pompeii on the taste of their time. Following Dr. John's talk, Jeffrey Collins will discuss the popularity of the French Empire style, its importance in the Western world and influence on American furniture design as evidenced by works of art in the High's own decorative arts collection. Conversation, coffee, and croissants provided.
Featured presenters include Christopher M.S. Johns, the Norman L. and Roslea G. Goldberg Chair of Art History, Vanderbilt University; Jeffrey Collins, Professor of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Art and Visual Culture for the Bard Graduate Center
Generous support for this program is provided in memory of Virginia Campbell Courts and Nancy Fraser Parker, longtime patrons of the High Museum of Art. |