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So many Modernist breakthroughs involved the visual dismantling of a woman--Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) on the second floor of MoMA, de Kooning's Woman, I (1950-51) on the third--that it should come as no surprise that Léger began the same way, with his systematically fragmented Woman in Blue (1912), the first piece in the exhibition.
From 1309 to 1377, Avignon was the papal seat.
•1309–1377Papacy exiled to Avignon, France from Rome
July: Avignon, international theater, music, opera, dance, and cinema; Aix-en-Provence, opera; Arles, photography seminars, exhibitions, and audiovisual shows in amphitheater; Montpellier, music, opera, and dance (starts last week in June); Orange, opera in the amphitheater; Nice jazz; Bayonne, folklore; Paris, Festival Estival (music and theater; till September); La Rochelle, Francopholies (music festival); Prades Festival Pablo Casals (chamber music; until mid-August)
With the papacy in comfortable exile in Avignon since 1309, the brutal rule of the Orsini and Colonna families reduced Rome to a half-urban, half-rural backwater village.