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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.
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.
•1309–1377Papacy exiled to Avignon, France from Rome
From 1309 to 1377, Avignon was the papal seat.