Artful Conversation is just what the title promises: an hour of art works and conversation with a Gallery Guide each month, in a selected AGO gallery, around a specific theme.
- 2nd Friday each month
- meet in Walker Court at 1:30 p.m.
Friday, March 14: Baroque Drama
The baroque is like action unfolding before our eyes — pure theatre, with manipulations of light and architectural spaces.
Initially used as a propaganda device by the Catholic Church, we can associate this art movement’s theatrical grandeur with cinematic forms, such as immersive Hollywood epics.
The focus of the discussion, led by Gallery Guide Anita Wisner, will be the Italian baroque. Featured works will include paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (whose Massacre of the Innocents is shown above), Luca Giordano and Gaspar de Crayer, and bronzes by Foggini.