C??zanne and Antiquity

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Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art. Paul C??zanne (1839-1906) was perhaps more knowledgeable about the ancient world?its art, history, languages, and literature?than any other late nineteenth-century painter was. His understanding of the antiquity of Provence, where he lived most of his life in contact with its storied places and their layered histories, was particularly deep, encompassing its geological formation and millennia of inhabitation from the Paleolithic to the Roman period. In this lecture recorded on August 2, 2015, at the National Gallery of Art, Faya Causey traces C??zanne?s involvement with this world, from his own experiences in Aix and its environs to his decades-long study of classical art, architecture, and literature at Coll??ge Bourbon; at the free drawing school attached to the Mus??e d’Aix (now the Mus??e Granet), and at the Mus??e du Louvre.