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Conferences and Courses of the Friends of the Henri-Martin Museum

Founded in 1997, the Friends of the Henri-Martin Museum association organizes art history courses and conferences each year on the visual arts and architecture from Antiquity to the present day.

Lasting 1h30 each, the conferences are illustrated with rich slideshows that illustrate the proposed themes. They are all held in the Congress Hall of the Maison des associations, place Bessières, at 18 p.m.

With the new director of the Henri-Martin museum, Rachel Amalric, the Friends of the museum association welcomes an agreement put in place this year: membership of the association will give free access to the Henri Martin museum during throughout the year 2024. This card is intended to encourage culture in the city of Cahors.

Program

2024 program:

THE FIVE ART HISTORY COURSES by Geneviève Furnemont:

Guide lecturer in Toulouse, Geneviève Furnemont knows perfectly 400 subjects devoted to the history of art, and prepares new ones every year. For 2023, Geneviève Furnemont is offering five art history courses grouped under the theme of “The 7 deadly sins in art”:

- Gluttony... - Wednesday January 10
...or rather gluttony, gula, excess in the face of food. The sin that has softened the most, and no longer appears like a gate to Hell.
Literary and pictorial journey, from Antiquity to the present day.
Brueghel, Veronese, Jordaens, De Troy, Haudebourt, Lescot, Magritte, Erro...

- Lust - Wednesday February 7
Perhaps the most obvious of deadly sins, but is it the worst? Dürer, master of the Upper Rhine, Jean Massys, Delacroix, Orlan...

- Laziness - Monday March 11
...or acedia, spiritual neglect. From moral laziness and distance from prayer, to sweet abandonment to the pleasure of doing nothing. Nicolas Maes, Greuze, Casa y Carbo, Georges Clairin.

- Greed and anger - Monday March 25
Greed, accumulation of wealth, violence and murder. Very modern sins in our global economy. Moissac and Vézelay, Quentin Metsys, Gustave Doré, Raphaël, El Greco, Le Brun, Bouguereau...

- Envy and Pride - Monday May 13
The desire to appropriate the possessions of others, and the desire to boast of the gifts of God. What if pride was the original sin? Giotto, Christmas

THE FIVE CONFERENCES

The architecture of Tadad Ando - Wednesday January 24.
Speaker: Maël Leroyer, lecturer in art history.

Around the "Master of the Porte des Comtes" of Saint Sernin de Toulouse - Monday February 12.
Speaker: Christophe Balagna, Professor of Art History at the Catholic University of Toulouse.

Gustave Caillebote - Wednesday April 10.
Speaker: Dominique Lobstein, art historian and documentalist at the Musée d’Orsay.

The invisible in Art: revealing the imperceptible - Monday May 27.
Speaker: Itzhak Goldberg - critic and author.

How the manifesto of surrealism is “heard”, one hundred years later - Monday September 16.
Speaker: Clément Gaesler, heritage curator, researcher in art history and anthropology.