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Information Meeting: DSU 2012 Summer Study

September 2, 2011 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Vienna is one of the world’s foremost centers of art, architecture and music, home to some of the greatest museum collections in the world. Now a bustling modern city, Vienna was once the capital of the Habsburg empire, the relics of its glorious past – Gothic cathedrals, Baroque palaces and churches, majestic boulevards, a range of historicist buildings, and Art Nouveau architecture – endow the city with a rich historical dimension and offer the opportunity to study several centuries of art history in one place.
 Over the course of 2 weeks, we will visit many of Vienna’s great museums including the Kunsthistorische Museum, whose holding include numerous examples familiar to students from their art history survey classes, the Belevedere’s collection of Sezession artists Klimt, Schiele, and Kokoschka, the new Museumsquartier, home to several museums dedicated to modern and contemporary art, take a field trip to the Roman legionary city of Carnuntum, immerse ourselves in the Middle Ages with a visit to a fully furnished medieval fortress, see various Baroque churches, tour a Rococo palace that rivals Versailles in France, compare the historicist buildings along the Ringstrasse, and explore the complexity of fin-de-siècle Vienna as exemplified by its Art Nouveau architecture and the work of the Sezession artists.
 Of course, a visit to Vienna is not complete without also partaking in the local culture, thus we will attend the opera one evening, sample the local cuisine, sip coffee at real Viennese Kaffeehaus, tour a wine cellar and sample some of its offerings.
 Participants can earn up to 6 academic credit hours for this trip by registering for a variety of art and art history courses.

 To learn more about this program, attend a first informational meeting on Friday, September 2 at 12:00 pm in 151 HNA

or contact Michaela Merryday at 662-846-4722 or via mmerryday@deltastate.edu

Dates for a second meeting will be announced.

Details

Date:
September 2, 2011
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Organizer

Michaela Merryday
Email:
mmerryday@deltastate.edu