Impressionism Tour at Denver Art Museum
Happy 150th Birthday, Impressionism!
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition with a visit to the Denver Art Museum’s “19th Century in European and American Art” galleries on April 23rd, from 5:30 to 6:45 pm. Learn how a loose-knit group of independent artists, including Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Morisot, and others banded together on April 15th, 1874, in a photographer’s studio in downtown Paris to show art that upended the rules governing art-making. Investigate what was so offensive about their paintings that made people mock and ridicule them. Join Giulia Bernardini, art historian and founder of art travel company Wonderfeast, to wish Impressionism a TRÈS JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE!
Space limited to 15 participants; entrance tickets $15 per person. Option to join Giulia and the Alliance Française Director, Rebecca Boyd for drinks and/or food afterward at the Denver Art Museum’s Ponti restaurant.
Giulia Bernardini - Biography
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition with a visit to the Denver Art Museum’s “19th Century in European and American Art” galleries on April 23rd, from 5:30 to 6:45 pm. Learn how a loose-knit group of independent artists, including Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Morisot, and others banded together on April 15th, 1874, in a photographer’s studio in downtown Paris to show art that upended the rules governing art-making. Investigate what was so offensive about their paintings that made people mock and ridicule them. Join Giulia Bernardini, art historian and founder of art travel company Wonderfeast, to wish Impressionism a TRÈS JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE!
Space limited to 15 participants; entrance tickets $15 per person. Option to join Giulia and the Alliance Française Director, Rebecca Boyd for drinks and/or food afterward at the Denver Art Museum’s Ponti restaurant.
Giulia Bernardini - Biography
Giulia Bernardini is the founder of Wonderfeast, a boutique art travel company. She holds master’s degrees in art history and museum studies and is a regular guest lecturer in the Boulder/Denver area on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and on the Parisian Belle Époque. Throughout the year she returns to Europe, where she grew up, to share her passion for the most celebrated cities of Italy and France with inquisitive art-, food-, and culture-loving Wonderfeast seminar participants.
Location: Denver Art Museum
Time: Tuesday, April 23rd from 5:30 pm-6:45 pm