Art History Lecture Series

Fall 2026 & Spring 2027 AHS

Friday Mornings:

Coffee and Conversation – 10:30 am | Lecturer Presentation – 11:00 am

Arts History Lectures will be held at the Helen DeVitt Jones Sculpture Court – (Enter Through the West Doors).

DUES

Semester Dues:

MaTTUA Member Price: $50.00

Non-Member Price: $60.00

Individual Sessions:

MaTTUA Member Price: $7.00

Non-Member Price: $10.00

Students with ID’s are FREE

Semester dues can also be paid at the door upon arrival to AHS

*Friday, Sept. 11th, 2026: Limbourg Brothers (1385-1416): The Foundation of the Northern Renaissance
*Friday, Sept. 18th, 2026: Jan Van Eyck (c. 1390-1441): The Beginning of Oil Painting
Friday, Sept. 25th, 2026: Rogier van der Weyden (1400-1464) and Robert Campin (1375-1444): Art in the Flemish Style
Friday, Oct. 2nd, 2026: Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516): Scenes of Paradise and Damnation
Friday, Oct. 9th, 2026: Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528): The Leonardo Da Vinci of the North
Friday, Oct. 16th, 2026: Matthias Grunewald (c. 1470-1528) and others: Renaissance Art from Germany
Friday, Oct. 23rd, 2026: Hans Holbein (1497-1543): Art in the Court of Henry the VIII
Friday, Oct. 30th, 2026: Pieter Bruegel (1530-1569): Grandeur and Wit in the Dutch Golden Age
Friday, Nov. 6th, 2026: El Greco (1541-1614): The Spanish Renaissance and the Beginnings of Non-Representational Art
Friday, Nov. 13th, 2026: Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) and Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669): Italian Art after Vasari
Friday, Nov. 20th, 2026: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680): The Changing Dynamic od Italian Sculpture
Friday, Nov. 27th, 2026: NO LECTURE- Thanksgiving Week
Friday, Dec. 4th, 2026: Diego Velázquez (1599-1660): The Spanish Baroque Painter Who Changed Art

* Free/Guest Days

*Friday, Jan. 8th, 2027: Michelangelo de Caravaggio (1571-1612): Light and Darkness in the Italian Baroque
*Friday, Jan. 15th, 2027: Georges de La Tour (1593-1652): The Baroque Period Outside of Italy
Friday, Jan. 22nd, 2027: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Part 1, Master Artist of the Dutch Golden Age
Friday, Jan. 29th, 2027: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Part 2, Master Artist of the Dutch Golden Age
Friday, Feb. 5th, 2027: Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641): An International from the Age of Court Painters
Friday, Feb. 12th, 2027: Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665): The Return to Order in Painting
Friday, Feb. 19th, 2027: Women in Art: A survey of women artists from the Baroque Rococo and Beyond
Friday, Feb. 26th, 2027: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Art of Movement and Color
Friday, Mar. 5th, 2027: Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675): The Mysterious Master of the Dutch Interior
Friday, Mar. 12th, 2027: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): Whimsical Art from the Rococo Period
Friday, March 19th, 2027: NO LECTURE- Spring Break
Friday, Mar. 26th, 2027: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1820): Revolution and Structure in French Neoclassicalism
**Friday, Apr. 2nd, 2027: Early American Art: In celebration of America’s 250th Anniversary, a look at the early art of our country- Spring Luncheon Immediately Following The Lecture

* Free/Guest Days

**Spring Luncheon