Syllabus & Itinerary
Art &
Society in France
Paris-Burgundy
/ June, 2009
June
14
Morning: Paris arrival
& check-in
at Hotel
Opéra St. Lazare.
Late afternoon: Walking tour & Group Dinner
Michelin/Paris
- Read introductory material, and henceforth
the material on places we will visit, before we visit them.
Embassy of the United States - Paris, France
Morning
- class: Overview
of France & Paris,
More France
History, Geography,
France-USA, Guardian-France
France: An Illustrated History / 1-9
Afternoon: Notre Dame de
Paris,
Musée national du Moyen Age, walking
tour of
Ancient
& Medieval
Paris .
Evening: Group Dinner in the Latin Quarter.
June 16
Morning
- class: Neolithic Culture,
Dawn of the Arts,
Lascaux
Roman
Gaul, The Celts,
Greek Art
& Architecture
Roman Art & Architecture, Roman
Architecture in France
France and Ancient Gaul, The
Romanesque
France: An Illustrated History / 11-33
Michelin/Burgundy
- Read introductory material, and henceforth
the material on places we will visit, before we visit them.
Afternoon:
departure from hotel, bus trip to
Burgundy; check-in
Hôtel
de la Gare, walking tour of Montbard.
Evening: Group Dinner at Hôtel de l'Ecu.
June 17
Morning
- class: The Middle Ages, Castles,
A Medieval Town, Medieval Art,
Aesthetics,
Medieval
Life
The Middle
Ages, Monasteries,
Manuscripts,
Gothic Cathedrals
The
Middle Ages, Monasticism,
Notre Dame de Paris
France: An Illustrated History
/ 35-71
Afternoon:
Vézelay and Semur-en-Auxois,
return
to Montbard.
June 18
Day
Trip to Dijon, Musée
Archéologique,
Group Lunch at Bistrot
des Halles, walking tour, return to Montbard.
June 19
Morning
- class: The
Renaissance: Castles,
Books,
Furniture, &
French Renaissance Renaissance
Art: Castles,
Books, Furniture, & Painting.
France: Illustrated History / 73-102
Late
morning: Marché de Montbard & Group Picnic.
Afternoon: Château
de Bussy-Rabutin,
Musée
Gorsline,
Flavigny-sur-Ozerain,
return to Montbard.
June 20
Morning - class: Versailles & Louis XIV &
Louis
XIV
Art
of the Seventeenth Century & The
Absolute Monarch
France: An Illustrated History
/ 103-120
Afternoon:
L'Abbaye
de Fontenay &
Alésia,
return to Montbard - Parc Buffon.
Group Dinner at Restaurant de l'Aubespin.
June 21
Morning free.
Day
Trip to Côte
d'or, Beaune,
Hospices
de Beaune,
Patriarche Père
et fils, return
to Montbard.
June 22
Morning
- class: The
Arts During the Enlightenment, French Revolution,
Art of the Enlightenment & the French Revolution
France: An Illustrated History / 121-137
Departure and return to Paris; check in at hotel.
Afternoon: Sainte Chapelle, Conciergerie.
Evening: Group Dinner at Au Pied de Cochon.
June 23
Morning
- class: Nineteenth Century
Painting, Sculpture,
Cinema,
Photography,
Doisneau
France: An Illustrated History / 137-152
Late
morning/afternoon: Musée
d'Orsay,
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, La
Tour Eiffel.
June 24
Morning
- class: Paris & Art in the Twentieth
Century, Arts
Today
France: An Illustrated History
/ 152-164
Late morning/Afternoon: Le
Louvre, Jardins
de Tuilerie,
Place
de la Concorde, Champs
Elysée, Arc
de Triomphe.
June 25
Morning
- class: French
Cuisine & Art of the Everyday
The
Aesthetics of
Food & Fashion
France: An Illustrated History / 165-188
Late
morning/ afternoon:
Palais
Royal, Arcades,
Grands
Boulevards,
Opéra-Garnier,
Montmartre, Sacré-Coeur.
Evening: Group Dinner in Montmartre.
June 26
Morning
- class: Paris-Match & French
Grafitti
Mass Media,
Comic Books, & France
Today
France: An Illustrated History / 188-205
Late
morning/afternoon Le
Marais, Place
des Vosges,
Musée Carnavalet,
Forum
des Halles, FNAC.
June
27
Free
day!
Optional visits - Le
Marché aux puces, Centre
Pompidou.
June 28
Submit
journals and final exam.
Departure
Jean
Fragonard
The Reader - 1772