The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
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Love in the Italian Theater
- When
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Sunday Oct 25, 2009 (2–4pm)
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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Come enjoy a Sunday at the Met! The afternoon explores the place of music and theater in Watteau's art. It also assesses the tension between an imagery of power, associated with the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and a more optimistic and mildly subversive imagery of pleasure, developed in opera-ballet and theater in the first years of the 18th century. A talk by Georgia Cowart of Case Western Reserve University is followed by a musical demonstration by Robert Mealy and Friends. This event accompanies the special exhibition Watteau, Music, and Theater, on view now through November 29.
Image: Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721). Love in the Italian Theater. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
