Tue, Jul 27
|Online Zoom Presentation
Art of the Blue Danube
A Summer Art Vacation, exploring the greatest artworks in Vienna and Budapest. Beauty, elegance, rich history and adventure await you. Join us for this five part online presentation with your guide, John Paul Thornton.
Time & Location
Jul 27, 2021, 10:30 AM – Aug 24, 2021, 12:00 PM
Online Zoom Presentation
About the event
Join presenter John Paul Thornton for an online "Summer art vacation" to Vienna and Budapest, as exquisite museums, soaring architecture and elegant gardens come to life. Artists featured from Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum include Rubens, Caravaggio, Vermeer and Rembrandt, While the palacial Belvedere Gallery showcases Klimt, Schiele, and Broncia Koller-Pinell. We will stroll the Ringstrasse and visit the opera. On to Budapest! We will venture within the palatial parliament building and meet many remarkable Hungarian artists, lighting your romantic imagination. The Doheny Synagogue and Tree of Life memorial will connect us to a thriving Hungarian-Jewish community. The grand histories of the Danube’s rich culture provide a backdrop to breathtaking artistic discovery.
Five online Zoom Meetings, 10:30am Pacific Time . Tuesdays, July 27, August 3, August 10, August 17, August 24