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1984

Venice in Glorious Decline

 

Rembrandt's Amsterdam: Society and the Arts in the Golden Age

1985


Los Angeles in the 40's: The Pot of Gold


1986-87


Mozart: The Myth, the Music and the Man


 

Handel's London: Path to Messiah

 

Napoleon's Paris

1987-88


Jefferson: Architect of the American Vision


 

Versailles: Royal Patronage of the Arts

1988-89


Renaissance Florence


 

Paris in Japan, 1880-1930: Tokyo Encounters Impressionism

 

St. Petersburg: The Arts in Imperial Russia

1989-90


Americans in Paris: The Jazz Age


 

Spain: A Golden Century from El Greco to Velasquez

 

Wagner in His Century

1990-91


Bada Shanren: A Ming Prince in the Qing Dynasty


 

The Enchantment of Prague: 1600-1750

 

The Golden Age of Venice: Image and Illusion in the Renaissance

1991-92


Dickens's London: Heart of Victoria's Britain


 

Manet's Paris: The First Modern City

 

San Francisco 1906-1939: Recovering the Lost City

1992-93


Spain and the New World: A Collision of Cultures


 

Thomas Jefferson at 250: The Legacy of an American Genius

 

The Glory of the Ottoman Empire: Suleyman the Magnificent

 

Shakespeare's England

1993-94


Galileo's Universe: Science, Art and Music in the Renaissance


 

Siena: Art and Society in a Renaissance Republic

 

The Classical Ideal: The Enduring Light of Ancient Greece

1994-95


Venice and Amsterdam: World Powers at Sea


 

Imagining Ireland: Poet's Vision and Patriot's Dream

 

Age of Cathedrals: Soaring Stone and the Quest for Light

1995-96


The Light of Provence: Cezanne, Van Gogh and Matisse


 

Harlem Renaissance: New York in the Twenties

 

Renaissance Women: Courtly Power and Influence

1996-97


Vienna Fin-de-Siecle: Nostalgia and the Modern


 

A Taste of Humanities West

 

In the Scandinavian Spirit: Art and Culture in a Free Society

 

Towering Visions: Jerusalem Through the Ages

1997-98


Visions of Paradise: The Taj Mahal and Other Splendors of the Mughal Court


 

Darwin’s Menagerie: Victorians, Sociobiologists and other Endangered Species

 

California Gold: The Lure and the Legacy

1998-99


Leonardo da Vinci: The Original Renaissance Man


 

Berlin in the Twenties: That Brilliant, Dazzling, Daring, Extravagant Decade

 

A Spanish Paradise: The Moors in Andalusia

1999-00


Gloriana: Art & Intrigue in the Court of Elizabeth I


 

Postcards From Paris: Americans in the City of Light

 

Behind the Veil: The Islamic World in Western Art and Literature

2000-01


New Orleans 1900: The Birth of Jazz


 

Rome in the Year One  

 

Venice to Xanadu: Marco Polo’s Silk Road

2001-02


Michelangelo’s World


 

100 Years in Barcelona

 

Ancient Egypt

2002-03


The Pleasures of Versailles


 

Beethoven: Resonant Genius

 

The First Flowering of Byzantium
 
Circumpolar Culture: Ancient Peoples of the Arctic North

2003-04


St. Petersburg: A Three-Hundred-Year Legacy


 

Humanities West 20th Anniversary Celebration

 

France in the Postwar Era: From Liberation to the New Wave

 

Lens Culture: The Impact of Photography on Modern Life

 

Isfahan: Imperial Persia's Glittering Jewel

2004-05


Italian Gems--Mantua, Ferraro, and Urbino


 

Beauty and Treasures of Imperial Beijing

 

Mark Twain in the West

2005-06


Sicily: Crossroads of Mediterranean Civilization


 

Emperor Charles V: Conquest, Faith, and Splendor in the World of a Renaissance Prince

2006-07


Rembrandt and the Golden Age of The Netherlands


 

The Crusades: Myth and Reality

2007-08


Voltaire and the French Enlightenment


 

Empire on Horseback: Genghis Khan and the Mongols
 

Athens in its Golden Age: The Time of Pericles

2008-09


Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America

 

India Rising: Tradition Meets Modernity
 

Confronting Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads

2009-10


Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler: Redefining Our Place in the Universe

 

Alexander/Alexandria: The Flowering of Hellenistic Culture



The Florence of the Medici: Commerce, Power, and Art in Renaissance Italy
2010-11

Venice: Queen of the Adriatic
 
Toledo and the Multicultural Challenges of Medieval Spain
 
Minoan Crete: The Dawn of European Civilization
2011-12

Notre Dame: The Heart and Soul of Medieval Paris
 
The Power and Glory of China’s Ming Dynasty
 
Pompeii and Herculaneum: Rediscovering Roman Art and Culture
2012-13

Paris: American Expatriate Genius in the 20s and 30s
 
Charles II: Phoenix of Restoration London
 
Bernini’s Rome: Art and Architecture of the Baroque
2013-14

Verdi’s Masterwork: Opera and the Birth of Modern Italy
 
Constantinople and the Byzantine Millennium
 
Baghdad: Golden Sun at the Center of Islam
 
 



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