Past groups

An archive of past Looking Groups. Explore the schedule, readings, and syllabi from our previous groups.

Participants discussing a gold-ground Madonna and Child in the Met’s European painting galleries.

Looking Group 1 · Completed

European Painting, 1300–1800

June–September 2025 · 14 sessions

A Looking Group tracing the birth and development of post-Medieval European Painting from International Gothic through the eighteenth century.

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Participants looking together at nineteenth-century paintings in a red-walled gallery at the Met.

Looking Group 2 · Completed

European Painting in the Long Nineteenth Century

April–August 2026 · 18 sessions

A Looking Group moving chronologically through the history of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century painting, from Neoclassicism and Romanticism through Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and early Modernism.

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