OLLI at Duke         Fall 2023
Art from the Dutch Golden Age, Trade and Colonialism

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Most are familiar with the beautiful tulips, pearl earrings, atmospheric landscapes, and penetrating portraits of 17th-century Dutch painting, produced by artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Frans Hals. These works sparked the Dutch Golden Age when the Netherlands became an independent Republic (1648) and emerged as the most prosperous nation in Europe. This course will use works from the NCMA Dutch collection and works from the NCMA special fall 2023 exhibition, Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to explore how paintings from this remarkable time and place represent the fruits of commercial global trade, a burgeoning middle class, and, also, the darker side of colonialism. ​

                                        Lectures, Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30​
October.    4      Lecture: Birth of the Golden Age; 1600-1630
October    11     Lecture: The Glory Days; 1630-1660
October    18 &19   Gallery Session in NCMA Dutch Galleries
October    25     Lecture: Late Works; 1660-1700
                                         Coffee Social, Education Lobby, 10:15-11:00
November  1 &  2   Gallery Session in NCMA Dutch Galleries
November  8 &  9   Gallery Session in NCMA exhibition Dutch Art in a Global Age:
​                                         Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Please note:  
​Students may register for one of 6 sections: lecture in-person, lecture Zoom only, or lecture in-person + a gallery section (4 sections of 15 people). 
Recordings of the Zoom lectures will be available through the student portal for ZOOM section ONLY. Links for the in-person recorded lectures will be available only by request of the instructor. Gallery sessions are not recorded.
All in-person classes will be held at the North Carolina Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh.  ​