In this five-session course, popular Roundtable instructor Francis Morrone — architectural historian and professor at New York University — will survey the art, architecture, and decorative arts of the late nineteenth century, a time of quickly shifting aesthetics and prolific creativity.

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Travel from the British Isles and France to the United States with Francis Morrone as he explores the remarkable explosion of creativity that resulted from artists, writers, and audiences seeking to preserve handicrafts and the prerogatives of untrammeled imagination in a new era of breathtaking — and frightening — change brought on by industrialization, routinization, and urbanization. In these lavishly illustrated lectures, Morrone will start in the late nineteenth century as critic and artist John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood espoused artistic renewal in the face of industrialization. He will then highlight William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement, as well as Britain’s Aesthetic Movement and France’s Symbolists and Decadents, and finish with a survey of the American Arcadian Revival.

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Please note, there is no class on Wednesday, October 2, in observance of the first day of Rosh Hashanah.

This is a live, virtual course hosted by Roundtable, which includes interactive opportunities and post-course recordings available for all course participants.

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