Lecture 7: Vermeer & Music – Art of Love & Leisure

About
About a third of 17th century Dutch paintings feature musical instruments or scenes of music-making. Music was celebrated as a means of social or familial bonding and as an expression of love, while also feared for its seductive, immoral connotations. A strict etiquette surrounded the act of performing music by men and women and the middle and lower classes. This talk includes musical excerpts played on original period instruments, illustrating particular instruments shown in paintings.Lydia Bauman was born in Poland. She received a BA in Fine Art at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She paints and exhibits as well as lecturing widely to adult audiences. She has taught at London’s National Gallery for more than 35 years, and intermittently at London’s Tate Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Hermitage and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Date
Friday 29 August 2025 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+10)Location
Cudgegong Valley Public School
Mudgee NSW 2850