[photo credit: Pasadena Senior Center]
The Pasadena Senior Center runs the Masters Series as a lifelong learning program for adults 50 and older. The series examines house museums as cultural institutions and explores how private collectors assembled art and object collections later opened to the public in their original or adapted domestic settings.
Zoraster, who specializes in Western art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, teaches at multiple Southern California colleges and extension programs. The December 16 lecture focuses on three distinguished Parisian institutions: the Musée Cognacq-Jay, which houses 18th-century art assembled by Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jay; the Musée Marmottan Monet, home to the world’s largest Monet collection; and the Musée de la Vie Romantique, representing the romantic era of collecting.
Wonderful Curiosities: Exploring House Museums will run on Tuesday, December 16 at 2 p.m.–4 p.m. Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. Holly St., Pasadena, California. For more information, call (626) 685-6702 or visit www.pasadenaseniorcenter.org/lectures-classes/masters-series-lifelong-learning. Ticket prices: $18 for members, $20 for nonmembers; series tickets $45 for members, $54 for nonmembers.
