Audioguide
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
28 November 2008 to 8 March 2009
Audioguide to the exhibition. Cost: $6.
Theatre
Bernini was famous for his comedies. Only one now survives: The Impresario, written about 1644. It tells the story of Gratiano, a brilliant stage designer struggling with a daughter in love with a young man, and beset by scheming servants and rivals out to steal his ideas. Will love and art triumph?
Thursday 22 January at 6:30 pm & Saturday 24 January at 2 pm
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Impresario, c. 1644.
Performed by A Company of Fools. In the Rideau Chapel.
Cost: $10, Members $8.
Lectures
Cost: Adults: $5; seniors and full-time students: $4, Members: $3. Gallery admission not included. In the Auditorium. In English or French with simultaneous interpretation.
Saturday 29 November at 2 pm
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture by Catherine Hess, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the J. Paul Getty Museum and guest curator of the exhibition.
Sunday 30 November at 2 pm
Another Dimension: Baroque Sculpture and the Printed Image by Malcolm Baker, Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside. The annual Kathleen Fenwick Memorial Lecture.
Sunday 7 December at 2 pm
Parler de ressemblance. Portraits de Bernini selon ses premiers biographies, by Maarten Delbeke, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Ghent and Leiden. In French with simultaneous interpretation.
Saturday 17 January at 1:30 pm
Stone Carving Demonstration. RJW Stonemasons carver Danny Barber will demonstrate his stone carving technique, using his traditional sculpting tools. In the Studio. Free.
Saturday 31 January from 1:30 to 3 pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture. RJW Stonemasons carver Jean-Philippe Smith will demonstrate his stone carving technique, using his traditional sculpting tools. In French with a bilingual question period. In the Studio. Free.
Sunday 8 February at 2 pm
The Patronage of Genius: Pope Urban VIII and Gian Lorenzo Bernini by Sebastian Schütze, Professor of Art History, Queen's University, Kingston.
Films
In the Lecture Hall. Included with Gallery Admission
Sunday 14 December at 1 pm
The Power of Art: A History of the Creative Moment: Bernini. 2006, 50 min. Presenter: Simon Schama. In English.
Sunday 14 December at 2:30 pm
Hommes de Marbre (Men of Marble). 1993, 26 min Directors: Laurent Lutaud and Jean-Michel Ogier. In French.