Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance. Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about artists, their friends, their socie... more »ty and their work.Now your chair at home can become the seat you couldn?t buy in New York. These DVD?s are the actual performances filmed as they were given "Live At The Met."As co-founder of L?Oeil, the influential vanguard art magazine published in Paris, Bernier became friendly with Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Léger, Braque, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Duchamp and many other modern masters. These lectures have a depth that only a firsthand acquaintance would allow.FRANCOIS I OF FRANCEFrancois I of France lived for art. In painting, sculpture, in architecture and in decoration, only the best would do. Gaiety and an unprecedented elegance were the mark of the new France that he brought into being.CHARLES I OF ENGLANDCharles I of England amassed the greatest and most poetical collection of art for his day. Complementing this collection were masterpieces of Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Mantegna and Tintoretto.« less