W&C: PRÉCIEUX ÉDICULES: LES VESPASIENNES ET LA PAGODE BASTILLE
February 6, 2020W&C: PATRICK MODIANO AND THE PUZZLE OF IDENTITY
February 29, 2020W&C: MEMENTO MORI, SACRED AND PROFANE
MEMENTO MORI, SACRED AND PROFANE
Please REGISTER AT LEAST 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE by calling The French Class at (415) 362-3666
A conference in French presented by Renée Morel
$25
The same conference will be offered twice at The French Class:
Tuesday, March 17, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 21, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The Memento Mori (Remember that you will die) or “Vanity,” an artistic reminder of the inevitability of Death, is believed to have originated in ancient Rome, with the advent of Christianity. However, as a pictorial genre, it became popular during the Renaissance and even more so during the 17th C., with the spread of the Counter-Reformation. Look at amazing examples of this disturbing genre and its well-known symbols. See how this moralizing Christian theme turned existentialist when embraced by the Romantic movement and, more surprisingly still, by Modernists (Cézanne, Picasso) and successive waves of the iconoclastic avant-gardes (Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst).
