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The striking plaster casts at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum were once copied by drawing students to improve their understanding of the human form, the interaction of light and shadow, and other essential aspects of draftsmanship. Many of those students also copied the prints of historic sculptures illustrated in the French artist Charles Bargue’s Drawing Course (1868-71), which became a worldwide bestseller. This talk explores Bargue’s success back then and also why his curriculum has become popular again since its republication in 2003.
Presented by Peter Trippi, Art Historian and Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
Peter Trippi has edited Fine Art Connoisseur since 2006. Previously, he directed New York’s Dahesh Museum of Art, which specialized in 19th-century European academic painting and sculpture. He has also held senior posts at the Brooklyn Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art. Trippi has co-curated major touring exhibitions devoted to the Victorian painters J. W. Waterhouse and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and is currently co-curating (with Nancy Carlisle) the exhibition Artful Stories: Paintings from Historic New England
