Lecture 4, Part 1: The Education of Artists: Becoming a Master from the 15th to 21st Centuries

A live recording over slides of a discussion by art historian Micah Christensen (PhD, University College London) on the history of educating artists. This is part one of two, recorded with an audience of artists and art enthusiasts at the Beaux-Arts Academy.

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  • Ernst van de Wetering. Rembrandt: The Painter Thinking. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2016.
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  • Rafael Cardoso Denis & Colin Trodd, eds. Art and the academy in the nineteenth century.  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
  • Albert Boime. The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1971.
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  • Juliette Aristides. Classical Painting Atelier: A contemporary guide to traditional studio practice. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2008.
  • John Milner. The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the late-Nineteenth Century. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998.
  • Harrison C. White & Cynthia A. White. Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
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