LECTURE SERIES

Joan Root has given art history slide- lectures for more than twenty years. In addition to teaching college-level courses of Art Survey and Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, she has been invited to speak at the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Kreeger Museum, the Art Seminar of Baltimore as well as for Silversea and Seabourn Cruise Lines. Her annual Fall Lecture Series in her home has become a sought after occasion providing an opportunity for in depth slide-presentations and discussions in a private and intimate setting.

Selected Lecture Series:
  1. Artists' Secrets: Looking at Painting with an Artist's Eye - eight lectures
  2. Art Tour of Italy Without Packing: Rome, Florence and Venice - six lectures
  3. Art Tour of the Baltics Without Packing: Oslo, Stockholm, St. Petersburg - three lectures
  4. The Masters of Impressionism: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Sisley, Caillebotte, Morisot, and Cassatt - six lectures
  5. Caribbean Inspiration: Rousseau, Pissarro and Gauguin - three lectures
  6. Vietnam: Fabulous Hanoi, Imperial History in Hue and Hoi An, Rural Vietnam from the Mekong Delta to Sapa - three lectures
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Selected Individual Lectures:
  1. Artists' Secrets: Looking at Painting with an Artist's Eye: one lecture summary of series
  2. Drink and Be Merry: Images of Wine in Classical Art
  3. The Glory of Classical Greek Art
  4. The Grandeur of Classical Roman Art
  5. Classical Greek Art in its colonies in Italy
  6. The Cradle of Renaissance Art: Florence and Siena
  7. The Venetian Renaissance: The Sacred and the Sensual
  8. The Genius of Michelangleo
  9. Exploring Their New Lands: 19th century American and Australian Landscape Painting
  10. Channel Cousins: Comparing Late 19th century British Painting with French Impressionism
  11. Expanding their Frontiers: Comparing Late 19th century American Painting with French Impressionism
  12. Cezanne: His Vision of Unifying the Past with the Future
  13. The Magic of Morocco for Matisse and Churchill
  14. Edvard Munch and His Contemporaries
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            


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