Different eras experience art in different ways--often dramatically so. Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France, the catalog to an exhibition at the
An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This act of listening was con
Excerpt from France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1890 Before the Revolution, Louis XVIII. Had been known sometimes as the Comte de Provence, and sometimes as