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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. With over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High's Media Arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema.

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  • Castiglione: Art of Being a Renaissance Man

    Thu, Jan 11, 2007
    Baldassare Castiglione, a literary genius, astute diplomat, and military captain defined the term 'Renaissance Man'. Through his best selling *Book of the Courtier*, he taught countless generations of European aristocrats how to be cool, calm, and collected. Syracuse University Professor and Italian art expert Gary Radke discusses Castiglione, his masterful portrait by Raphael, and the world in which they both lived.
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  • Raphael and the Art of Portraiture

    Thu, Jan 25, 2007
    David Brenneman, chief curator of the High Museum of Art, discusses one of the Renaissance's most important portraits, Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione.
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  • Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

    Thu, Aug 2, 2007
    Akela Reason explores Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, or Edith Minturn.
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  • Franklin Sirmans: Driskell Prize Lecture

    Sun, Jul 22, 2007
    Franklin Sirmans accepts the 2007 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize. Named after the renowned African American artist and art scholar, the Driskell Prize recognizes a scholar or artist in the beginning or middle of his or her career whose work makes an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history.
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  • Sensational Scandals on the Eve of the French Revolution

    Sat, Sep 1, 2007
    Judith Miller discusses a series of scandals that linked French politics to the arts in the 1770's and 1780's. As the monarchy weakened, audiences at theater, opera, and painting exhibitions seized on each innuendo. One of the Louvre's paintings on display at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia was involved.
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  • Looking Back on Impressionism

    Sat, Oct 13, 2007
    Ann Dumas, a leading independent scholar on Impressionism, talks about the Impressionists dialogue with the art of the past. The popular view of Impressionism is that it broke completely from the artistic traditions of previous centuries. In truth, the Impressionists copied the Old Masters and transformed their motifs and compositions into something completely new.
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  • Claude Monet and the Landscape Tradition

    Thu, Jan 10, 2008
    David Brenneman, director of collections and exhibitions at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, draws comparisons between Monet's work and the masters of the Dutch landscape tradition, as well as other Old Master traditions. Monet claimed that he was never influenced by the Old Masters; instead, his inspiration came from his own experiences. However, it is clear that he was inspired by the atmospheric expanses of sky and reflections in the surfaces of water depicted in 17th century Dutch landscapes.
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  • The Maidservant by Camille Pissarro

    Thu, Jan 3, 2008
    Jenna Madison gives an in-depth view on the background of French Impressionist Camille Pissarro's painting, *The Maidservant*.
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  • Visit to the Museum by Edgar Degas

    Thu, Dec 6, 2007
    Julia Forbes lends her expertise to a close-up look at Edgar Degas' *Visit to the Museum*.
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  • The Tiber

    Thu, Nov 1, 2007
    Philip Verre discusses *The Tiber*, on loan to Atlanta's High Museum of Art from the Louvre in Paris. The colossal, 10-foot-long sculpture by an unknown artist is one of the largest in the Louvre's collections.
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