French Nineteenth-Century Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art

In his return to the Fine Arts Society, Dr. Denker will take us on a visual tour of the National Gallery's holdings in French art, beginning with David and Ingres, then on to such impressionist painters as Monet and Cassatt, and ending with Van Gogh and his contemporaries.

Dr. Denker is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Adult Education Department at the National Gallery of Art. He alo serves as Adjunct Professor at The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, and at Georgetown University and Cornell University in Washington.

In 2011 Dr. Denker is the Curator for three exhibitions of artists who have created views of Venice.

When and where to hear this lecture: Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 10:00 A.M. at the Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, Illinois.

Other programs in the Fine Arts Society's 2011-2012 Lecture series: "Doubly Blessed: Women Artists In The Midwest, 1840-1890" with Susan Weininger, "Printing On Stone Surfaces in Late Renaissance Italy: Indestructible Art or Asthetic Innovation" with Judith Mann, "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble--Design for Shakespeare's Works" with Virgil Johnson, "Renaissance Art" with Dr. Sarah Glover, "Enchanted Isles of The Renaissance" with Jeffrey A. Nigro, "Niagara Falls, Icon of the Sublime" with Dr. Elizabeth McKinsey, and "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Still Relevant Today?" with Dr. Martin Abegg, Jr..

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