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A collection of interviews and features on topics related to the Norton Simon Museum's exhibitions and collections.
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Vigée-LeBrun's Portrait of Theresia, Countess Kinsky
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Part of a series celebrating the lives and careers of women artists, this short video looks at the French artist Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun (1755–1842), whose portrait of Theresia, Countess Kinsky, is one of the most striking paintings in our collection.Produced as part of the Museum's Encounters with the Collection video series.…
Educator Michelle Antonisse looks at Dutch art with Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (c. 1636–38) and Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier) (1888).Produced as part of the Museum's Videos for Schools series.By Norton Simon Museum
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French Art of the Late-18th and 19th Centuries
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Educator Nicolas Fyhrie discusses French art from the late-18th and 19th centuries through Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun's Portrait of Theresia, Countess Kinsky (1793), Édouard Manet's The Ragpicker (c. 1865–1870) and Claude Monet's The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil (1881). Produced as part of the Museum's Videos for Schools series.…
Educator and Teaching Artist Beatriz Jaramillo discusses the elements of art in Francisco de Zurbarán's Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633) and Jacopo Bassano's Flight into Egypt (c. 1544-45).Produced as part of the Museum's Videos for Schools series.By Norton Simon Museum
Educator Hanna Meshell explores the elements of art in Vincent van Gogh's The Mulberry Tree (1889) and Pablo Picasso's Woman with a Book (1932).Produced as part of the Museum's Videos for Schools series.By Norton Simon Museum
Part of a series celebrating the lives and careers of women artists, this short video looks at the Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch (1664/5–1750), a master of the still-life genre whose Nosegay on a Marble Plinth is among the treasures of the Norton Simon’s Northern European art collection.Produced as part of the Museum's Encounters with the Collection v…
Part of a series celebrating the lives and careers of women artists, this short video features the French artist Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), whose daringly sketchlike In a Villa at the Seaside is a highlight of the Museum’s Impressionist galleries.Produced as part of the Museum's Encounters with the Collection video series.…
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Lecture: Raphael: The Making of a Master
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Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings and Chair, Curatorial Affairs, The J. Paul Getty MuseumJuly 2020Over the course of his short but unprecedented career, Raphael painted the image of the Virgin and Child many times and in different iterations, including the masterpiece today at the Norton Simon Museum. In this lecture Davide Gasparotto …
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Zurbarán's Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose
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In this short video, Curator Gloria Williams Sander looks at Francisco de Zurbarán’s exquisite Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose from 1633. While the artist depicts the objects in rigorous balance and without extraneous detail, upon closer examination the painting evokes religious motifs and meaning.Produced as part of the Museum's Encount…
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Lecture: Raphael 2020: A Conversation on the Artist
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Tracy Cosgriff, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, College of Wooster, and Lisa Pon, Professor of Art History, University of Southern CaliforniaJune 2020To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, art historians Tracy Cosgriff and Lisa Pon discuss the artist’s life, practice and paintings with Assistant Curator Maggie Bell. Ex…
In this short video focused on Jacopo Bassano's The Flight into Egypt, (c. 1544–45), Assistant Curator Maggie Bell recounts the painting’s recent history, the messages it conveys, and the artist’s interests in rural scenes.Produced as part of the Museum's Encounters with the Collection video series.By Norton Simon Museum
In this short video focused on Édouard Manet's The Ragpicker (c. 1865–1870), Chief Curator Emily Talbot shares some insight into the world of ragpickers, or chiffonniers, in 19th-century Paris, as well as Manet’s influences and related paintings. This large-scale painting was and remains a powerful depiction of those typically overlooked or underre…
Take a closer look at Dancers in the Rotunda, a picture that Edgar Degas revisited and repainted years after he began it. The narration was created in conjunction with the 2017 exhibition Taking Shape: Degas as Sculptor, which examined the impulsive and instinctual nature of Edgar Degas’s artistic practice.…
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Degas as Sculptor: Materials and Mixed Media Modeling
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See how Edgar Degas incorporated an unusual variety of materials and media to create his sculptures Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen and The Tub. The narration was created in conjunction with the 2017 exhibition Taking Shape: Degas as Sculptor, which examined the impulsive and instinctual nature of Edgar Degas’s artistic practice.…
Examine how Edgar Degas returned to a simple pose over and over again, in drawing, sculpture and the breathtaking pastel Dancers in the Wings.The narration was created in conjunction with the 2017 exhibition Taking Shape: Degas as Sculptor, which examined the impulsive and instinctual nature of Edgar Degas’s artistic practice.…
Explore Edgar Degas's life-sized copy of Nicolas Poussin’s The Rape of the Sabine Women, a painting that forecasts his lifelong commitment to depicting dramatic movement and expressive forms.The narration was created in conjunction with the 2017 exhibition Taking Shape: Degas as Sculptor, which examined the impulsive and instinctual nature of Edgar…
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Raphael 2020: Madonna and Child with Book (c. 1502–3)
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Exhibition Trailer: By Day & by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque
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Exhibition Trailer: By Day & by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque, on view October 4, 2019–March 2, 2020.By Norton Simon Museum
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Lecture: Not Your Parents’ Norton Simon Museum—or is It?
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Suzanne Muchnic, art writerSaturday, September 21, 2019Norton Simon was always a subject of speculation. In the art world, he became such a high-powered but unpredictable collector that observers couldn’t help wondering what he would buy—or sell—next. His courtships with museums and educational institutions led to pointed questions about what would…
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Lecture: Fashioning the Feminine in 18th-Century France: Dress, Desire and Domesticity in Three Works from The Frick Collection
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, fashion historianSaturday, August 24, 2019Fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell examines how the sumptuous fashions of the mid-18th century inform our interpretations of three exquisite French paintings on loan to the Norton Simon from The Frick Collection.Presented in conjunction with The Sweetness of Life: Three…
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Lecture: Female Models in the “Century of Women”: From Fiction to Reality in Chardin, Boucher and Greuze
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David Pullins, Assistant Curator, The Frick CollectionSaturday, June 15, 2019Focusing on three important paintings from The Frick Collection lent to the Museum, this lecture explores the status of female models in 18th-century France, especially how they were torn between their identification as faithful wives, professional models and disreputable …
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Lecture: Conservation of the Dido Tapestry: A New Chapter
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Hannah Riley, Principal Conservator, Riley Textile ConservationSaturday, April 13, 2019In 2017, conservator Hannah Riley studied and repaired the Flemish tapestry The Death of Dido, currently on view in Once Upon a Tapestry: Woven Tales of Helen and Dido. This lecture explores the twists and turns Riley and her conservation companions encountered a…
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Lecture: Titian’s “Lady in White”: A Mistress of the Artist’s Soul
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Stephan Koja, Director, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen DresdenSaturday, March 23, 2019Art historians continue to debate the youthful subject portrayed in Lady in White. Is she a courtesan? Or is she Titian’s daughter Lavinia? Is she an illegitimate child, or just an ideal portrayal of beauty? At one and the same time, the p…
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Performance: Fate and the Heroine: Dido, Queen of Carthage
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Nancy Evans Dance TheatreSaturday, March 16, 2019Nancy Evans Dance Theatre explores through dance, music, art and text the tragic love story between Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Prince Aeneas of Troy from Virgil’s epic poem the Aeneid. Branching off from Virgil’s tale, this powerful performance tells the tale of Dido from her perspective. Following…
Emily Talbot, Acting Chief Curator, Norton Simon MuseumSaturday, March 2, 2019Working from a live model was a vital aspect of Henri Matisse’s artistic practice. He depended on the women who posed for him for creative inspiration, and several of them became trusted studio assistants and surrogate family members. This lecture focuses on three importa…
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Exhibition Trailer: The Sweetness of Life: Three 18th-Century French Paintings from The Frick Collection
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Exhibition Trailer: The Sweetness of Life: Three 18th-Century French Paintings from The Frick Collection, on view June 14–September 9, 2019.By Norton Simon Museum
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Exhibition Trailer: Titian’s 'Portrait of a Lady in White,' c. 1561, on loan from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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Exhibition Trailer: Titian’s Portrait of a Lady in White, c. 1561, on loan from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.By Norton Simon Museum
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Lecture: From Carpaccio’s “Sant Ursula” to Titian’s “Lady in White”: The Feminine Mystique in Renaissance Venice
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Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology, Princeton UniversitySaturday, February 9, 2019Wives, virgins or courtesans? The feminine mystique of Renaissance Venice sanctioned two desirable roles for honorable women: as a wife and mother managing the family palace or as a virginal bride of Christ confined to a convent. Carpaccio’…
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Lecture: Love at First Sight: Romanelli’s Dido and Aeneas Tapestry Suite
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Gloria Williams Sander, Curator, Norton Simon MuseumSat, January 12, 2019Virgil’s tale of Dido and Aeneas, from books 1 and 4 of the Aeneid, tells of the Queen of Carthage, a complex figure noted for her strength and character. She meets the shipwrecked Aeneas and the two fall in love, a union that could not survive Aeneas’s destiny to leave Cartha…
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Lecture: Robber Baron Collectors of the Gilded Age: Morgan, Frick, De Young
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Colin B. Bailey, Director, Morgan Library & MuseumSat, May 5, 2018In his comic novel The Outcry, published in 1911, Henry James characterizes the American robber baron collectors as the "conquering horde . . . only armed now with huge chequebooks instead of spears and battle-axes." The creation of outstanding private collections of European art in …
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Lecture: Beyond the Pale: The Radical Realism of Degas’s “Little Dancer”
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Emily Talbot, Assistant Curator, Norton Simon MuseumSat, March 10, 2018Beloved by museum visitors today, Degas’s Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen was deeply divisive when it was first exhibited at the sixth Impressionist Exhibition in 1881. Although some viewers welcomed the tinted wax figurine as an exciting new direction in realist art, many others w…
Encounters with the CollectionAssistant Curator Stephanie Rozman provides a closer look at two pillars from the Bharhut Stupa Railing, Female Deity (Yakshi) and an Amorous Couple (Mithuna) and The Great Departure of Siddhartha from the Norton Simon collection.By Norton Simon Museum
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Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Cirque Fernando, Rider on a White Horse
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Encounters with the CollectionAssistant Curator Emily Talbot shares with viewers one of her favorite works in the Norton Simon collection: Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Cirque Fernando, Rider on a White Horse from 1887–1888.By Norton Simon Museum
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Lecture: Ellsworth Kelly: From New York to Paris and Back Again, Thrice
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Yve-Alain Bois, Professor of Art History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton UniversitySat, October 13, 2018As a young enlisted soldier in World War II, Ellsworth Kelly spent a brief spell in Paris. After the war, following two frustrating years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he returned to the French capital for a longer …
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Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly
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Curatorial Associate Tom Norris discusses the exhibition, Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly, on view through October 29, 2018.By Norton Simon Museum
Encounters with the CollectionChief Curator Carol Togneri shares with viewers one of her favorite paintings in the Norton Simon collection: Guercino’s beloved Aldrovandi Dog from c. 1625.By Norton Simon Museum
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Lecture: Understanding Rembrandt at the National Gallery: A Conservator’s View
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Larry Keith, ?Head of Conservation and Keeper at The National Gallery, LondonSat, February 24, 2018The way in which Rembrandt handled his paint—whether the immaculate finish of his early works, or the so-called rough manner of his later paintings—has been important to an appreciation of his works. His technical mastery always was valued as a vehicl…
Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of LACMA,Saturday, May 18, 2013Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of LACMA, first became acquainted with Dan Flavin both personally and professionally while working on the interior installation illuminating the reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1992. In this lecture, to c…
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Lecture: Degas, Drawing and the Question of Dimension
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George Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimbell Art MuseumSat, January 20, 2018George Shackelford discusses Degas’s lifelong preoccupation with the human body—particularly the female nude—and the means he employed to understand and render the body in works of art, both two- and three-dimensional.Presented in conjunction with Taking Shape: Degas as Scu…
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Lecture: Rembrandt and the Lure of the Renaissance
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Anne T. Woollett, Curator, J. Paul Getty MuseumSat, December 9, 2017By 1640, after nearly a decade of extraordinary achievement as a portrait and history painter in Amsterdam, Rembrandt rose to fame and prosperity. Self Portrait at the Age of 34 (London, National Gallery), in which Rembrandt portrays himself in the rich accoutrements of fur and vel…
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Lecture: Being Born into the Next World: Egyptian Mummies and their Coffins
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Kea Johnston, PhD Student, UC BerkeleyOctober 28, 2017To a modern museum patron, accustomed to viewing the elaborate objects that they prepared for their tombs, the Ancient Egyptians can appear obsessed with death. It is more accurate to say that they loved living, and were committed to ensuring that their lives and those of their loved ones contin…
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Examining Giovanni di Paolo's Branchini Madonna
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In 2016, Giovanni di Paolo's masterpiece, "Branchini Madonna,” from 1427, underwent conservation work and technical analysis at the J. Paul Getty Museum. In this video, Norton Simon Curator Gloria Williams Sander interviews Yvonne Szafran, Senior Conservator and Head of Paintings Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, about this study and its fi…
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Lecture: Galka Scheyer: Patron Saint of Modernism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1925–1933
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Susan Landauer, Independent Art Historian and CuratorSeptember 16, 2017In early 20th-century San Francisco, the introduction and assimilation of European modernist art sparked widespread excitement and controversy. When Galka Scheyer arrived in 1925, she was immediately embraced by San Francisco’s fledgling avant-garde. Through her energetic lectur…
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Lecture: Dear Little Tornado: Galka Scheyer in Hollywood
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Victoria Dailey, Writer and Independent CuratorMay 13, 2017Although Los Angeles had a small group of modern artists in the 1920s, modernism was little known and often disparaged by most of the city’s art world. When Galka Scheyer organized the first Blue Four exhibition in Los Angeles in 1926, one artist remarked: "It reminded me of crawling things…
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Lecture: Galka Scheyer: Enterprising Prophetess of the Blue Four
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Gloria Williams Sander, Curator, Norton Simon MuseumSaturday, April 22, 2017Alexei Jawlensky nicknamed Emmy Scheyer "Galka," the Russian name for a small crow, known to be exceptionally intelligent, energetic and gregarious. These characteristics served Scheyer in her mission to introduce the American public to the avant-garde art of European moder…
Curator Gloria Williams Sander discusses the life of Galka Scheyer, the enterprising dealer responsible for the art phenomenon the “Blue Four”—Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky, Paul Klee and Vassily Kandinsky, and how her art collection and archives entered the Pasadena Institute of Art, now the Norton Simon Museum.…
Assistant Curator Emily Talbot examines the improvisational nature of Edgar Degas’s work in three-dimensional form, and the importance of the Norton Simon’s collection of Degas’s modèle bronzes.By Norton Simon Museum
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Audio: Van Gogh’s ‘Bedroom’ on Loan From the Art Institute of Chicago
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In this audio podcast, Chief Curator Carol Togneri talks to Gloria Groom, Chair of European Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, about Van Gogh’s iconic Bedroom. Produced in conjunction with the installation of that painting at the Museum from December 9, 2016 through March 6, 2017.By Norton Simon Museum
Associate Curator Emily A. Beeny gives a brief overview of Norton Simon’s collection of works by Picasso and explores their role in the broader story of his collections.By Norton Simon Museum
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Rembrandt Portraits in the Norton Simon Museum
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Curator Gloria Williams Sander gives a brief overview of the Norton Simon Museum’s collection of portraits by the great Dutch painter-printmaker of the Golden Age, Rembrandt van Rijn.By Norton Simon Museum
