Denis Lavalle, honorary chief curator of heritage, was a project officer at the Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine for national palaces and the monitoring of major patronage. After studying art history at Paris IV University, he was a resident at the Académie de France in Rome. He is a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century painting and in grand decorative schemes, which he teaches at IESA arts&culture.

In addition to his courses at IESA, each year he offers a themed lecture cycle on a major subject in art history:

Titian’s influence from the 17th to the 19th century, from Caravaggio to Delacroix

  • November 4, 2019 - The return to Titian in the Rome of the Barberini
  • November 25, 2019 - Vouet, Blanchard, and Le Brun listening to Titian
  • December 2, 2019 - From Watteau to David, the lingering shadow of Titian
  • December 9, 2019 - Meditation on Titian in French Romantic painting

In search of a unity of conception: the work of the Le Nain brothers

  • December 16, 2019 - The Le Nain brothers' attachment to their native soil
  • January 8, 2020 - The unity of the Le Nain brothers in the Paris of Louis XIII and Richelieu
  • January 15, 2020 - The Le Nain brothers, painters of inner life
  • January 29, 2020 - A disturbing painting: the Le Nain work offered to the Royal Academy
  • February 4, 2020 - How to see the work of the Le Nain brothers: the example of Jacques Thuillier

A time of great and genuine creation in the 20th century: The School of Paris 1945-1965

  • February 12, 2020 - Paris, capital of painting after the ordeal of World War II
  • March 11, 2020 - Choosing a side: figuration and non-figuration in the School of Paris
  • March 18, 2020 - The sense of the monumental among the masters of the School of Paris
  • April 8, 2020 - The "Young Painting" group
  • May 6, 2020 - The circle of "Poetic Reality": Marcel Brianchon and André Planson
  • May 13, 2020 - The lessons of the School of Paris for today’s painting

Lecture from 16h00 to 17h30
IESA Auditorium, 1 Cité Griset, Paris 11th
€15 per lecture - €180 for the cycle

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