Dante Salon – Inspiration and Obsession: Dante, Rodin and Rossetti – Sunday, September 13, 2020
This course was live and is closed. If you purchased the course, it will remain in your “My Courses” list in your student profile so you will continue to have access to the recording.
Dates Recorded: Sunday, September 13, 2020 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon PST
Format: One live webinar on Zoom
Faculty: Kayleen Asbo, PhD
Academic Credit: None unless purchased as the four salon package mentioned above.
Description:
Rodin’s life-long obsession with Dante and the Divine Comedy was the source of many of his most magnificent creations. In this riveting ninety-minute art and culture salon we will explore the fascinating story of how Dante’s genius leaped across the centuries to inspire Rodin as he created his most the iconic masterpieces, including “The Thinker” — a work originally titled “The Poet” that was his portrait in bronze of Dante in the act of dreaming up the Divine Comedy. We will discover the dramatic story of how the tumultuous relationship between Rodin and his muse and collaborator Camille Claudel bore an uncanny parallel with the characters they were carving that depicted the doomed lovers of Dante’s circle of Lust.
Recommended viewing in preparation: the film. “Camille Claudel”
Faculty
Described by Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress as “A true Renaissance woman,” Kayleen Asbo is a scholar, composer, musician, poet, cultural historian and spiritual director who holds three advanced degrees in the fields of Mythology, Music and Psychology. Kayleen is the Artistic Director for the Mythica Foundation for the Arts and she has been on the faculties of the Pacifica Graduate Institute, UC Berkeley and Dominican University, where she has taught courses on subjects ranging from the History of Christian Mystics to Jung and the Red Book, from Dante to Beethoven and the Hero’s Journey. She has been a keynote lecturer on Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine for the Assisi Institute of Depth Psychology in Italy, at Chartres Cathedral in France, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and throughout the world for spiritual centers, churches and psychological organizations and has been a featured speaker at the conference on Women and History at Oxford University in England. Dr. Asbo will be offering a virtual pilgrimage in the footsteps of Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine this summer for Ubiquity University and the Wisdom School.
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