The Friends of Dartmouth Libraries will host its 30th Annual Winter Art Film Series starting on Tuesday, January 21 at 11 a.m. at the Southworth Library, 732 Dartmouth Street in the Elsie Haskell auditorium.

This year’s series features Part I of Art Across the Ages. It is produced by The Great Courses and presented by Professor Ori Z. Soltes of Georgetown University.

The six week series includes two half-hour lectures each week and runs every Tuesday through February 25. Two dates in March are reserved in case of snow days.

This yearly film series has been one of the Friends of Dartmouth Libraries’ most popular programs.

The film lectures are free and open to the public.

The schedule is as follows:

January 21 — Continuity and Transformation: What is Art? / Pre-classical Greek Art

January 28 — The Birth of the New: Hellenistic Art / Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Early Roman Art

February 4 — Early Christian Art and its progeny / The Beginning of Jewish Art

February 11 — Christian Medieval Art and Architecture / The Language of Romanesque and Gothic Art

February 18 — Islamic Art from Abstract to Figurative / Jewish Medieval Art and Architecture

February 25 — Renaissance Painting Beyond the Alps / Renaissance Sculpture: Toward Florence

Snow days are on March 10 and March 17.