Curator's talk - '‘Giver of Delight’: Euterpe, the Muse of Music, in Visual Art'

Discover how Euterpe was depicted in visual art, drawing on two remarkable British collections, Upton House, and The Courtauld Gallery. Together, these two collections offer a rich starting point for examining how the muse of music was imagined, idealised, and reinvented across time — and what her enduring presence tells us about art's relationship with inspiration itself.

Dr Charlotte de Mille curates the Courtauld Gallery’s music programme. With the Gallery she co-authored Animating Art History, a joint initiative with Central St. Martin’s and the University for the Creative Arts, which was long-listed for a Clore Award in Museum Learning. She was Visiting Scholar at Lingnan University, Hong Kong in 2018, and Mid-Career Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art 2019-20. She is Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld teaching the MA Music and the Visual Arts. She edited Music and Modernism (2011) and is co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Music and Art (2023). Her book Bergson in Britain: Modern Art and Philosophy was published by EUP in the autumn of 2023. She is co-director of the project Intersections of Music and Art in Europe 1950-2000, with the Fondazione Cini, Venice.

The evening starts with us welcoming you with a glass of Prosecco or non-alcoholic sparkling alternative.