Lecture Series: Art & Music, from Prehistory to the Present

Schedule

Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Triton Museum of Art | Santa Clara, CA

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This September, the Triton Museum will present a special lecture series: “Art and Music, from Prehistory to the Present.”
About this Event

Please join Executive Director and Art Historian Preston Metcalf as he takes you on a journey of sight and sound. Over four weeks, Preston will share examples of music from different eras, alongside the art of those times, illustrating how both musicians and visual artists were expressing the same evolving ideas and understandings of their world, using two different vocabularies.


Art and Music, from Prehistory to the Present:

Week 1: September 25th, 2025

Touching the Transcendent: From the Paleolithic to the sights and sounds of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome

Week 2: October 2nd, 2025

The Voice of God: Medieval Mysteries, Troubadours of Love, and the Renaissance Glories of God

Week 3: October 9th, 2025

A Change of Perspective: From a Baroque Reformation to Metaphors of Royalty

Week 4: October 16th, 2025

Into the Modern: Art and Music Gets Personal

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Triton Museum of Art, 1505 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara, United States

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Tickets

USD 25.00 to USD 80.00

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