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Watteau's music
The exhibition \"Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) : la lecon de musique\" at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, France, on February 8-May 12, 2013, is reviewed, as is the exhibition catalogue edited by Florence Raymond (BOZAR Books/Skira Flammarion/Hannibal, 2013). They feature his prints, drawings, and paintings of musical instruments and themes.
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Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and the Subversive Utopia of the Opera-Ballet
This essay traces the ideology and imagery of Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera to sources in the contemporary opera-ballet. Focusing on two ballets (Le triomphe des arts and Les amours déguisez) and related works produced at the Paris Opéra between 1696 and 1713, it examines their protest of Louis XIV's absolutism through the satiric reversals of eponymous court ballets of his early reign. Relating these works to Watteau's Pilgrimage, it explores the locus amoenus of Cythera as the site of political subversion and traces the ways in which Cytherean imagery is used to undermine the iconology of royal propaganda.
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Carnival in Venice or Protest in Paris? Louis XIV and the Politics of Subversion at the Paris Opéra
After Louis XTVs banishment of the Comédie-Italienne in 1697, its costumes and masks became increasingly fashionable among a public disenchanted with absolutist politics. This article reveals the manner in which the plots, characters, and subversive satire of the Comédie-Italienne inform two ballets of André Campra,Le Carnaval de Venise(1699) andLes Fêtes vénitiennes(1710). Following the satiric strategies used by the Comédie-Italienne, Campra and his librettists employ an exotic Venetian setting as a mask for the libertine entertainments of a French public sphere. Reversing the ideology of Louis XIVs courtly fêtes, they deconstruct his official image in three ways: through a literary web of allusion, satire, and parody; through an Italianate musical style that serves to undermine the French language of absolutism; and through the thematic celebration of a new public audience as the subversive heir to the royal prerogative of pleasure.
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Watteau's \Pilgrimage to Cythera\ and the Subversive Utopia of the Opera-Ballet
This essay traces the ideology and imagery of Watteau's \"Pilgrimage to Cythera\" to sources in the contemporary opera-ballet. Focusing on two ballets (\"Le triomphe des arts\" and \"Les amours déguisez\") and related works produced at the Paris Opéra between 1696 and 1713, it examines their protest of Louis XIV's absolutism through the satiric reversals of eponymous court ballets of his early reign. Relating these works to Watteau's \"Pilgrimage\", it explores the locus amoenus of Cythera as the site of political subversion and traces the ways in which Cytherean imagery is used to undermine the iconology of royal propaganda.
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Of women, sex and folly: Opera under the Old Regime
Conservative writers in seventeenth-century France tended to agree that the morals of women were degenerating, though they disagreed as to whether the cause was the excessive strictness or the leniency of husbands. We would perhaps characterise the change more as a newly found sense of freedom and self-confidence that allowed women, however tentatively, to contest the double standard of the age. The new morality was seen in fashions that bared progressively more of the neck, shoulders, breasts, ankles and legs, revealing new erotic frontiers; in a relaxation of the taboo against female swearing and coarse language; in an epidemic of female gambling; and in scandalous reports of women's over-indulgences in the sensual pleasures of food, drink, nicotine and sex.
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