Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette "Marie Antoinette" for their prog rock band Curved Air. Wayne Shorter wrote a jazz tune of the same name; it was recorded by Freddie Hubbard. Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay wrote a musical play called "Marie Antoinette" about the parallel lives of Antoinette and a fictional Margrid Arnaud. The play was written in English but premiered in Tokyo. The portrait of Marie Antoinette entitled "Marie Antoinette à la Rose" features as the front cover of the US alternative rock group Hole's 2010 album "Nobody's Daughter". The Charlie Sexton song "Impressed" references Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Madonna dressed as Marie
Marie Antoinette the revolution. Furthermore, her execution was seen as a sign that the revolution had done its work. Long after her death, Marie Antoinette remains a major historical figure linked with conservatism, the Catholic Church, wealth, and fashion. She has been the subject of a number of books, films and other media. Politically engaged authors have deemed her the quintessential representative of class conflict, western aristocracy and absolutism. Some of her contemporaries, such as Jefferson, attributed to her the start of the French Revolution. For others, Marie Antoinette was a victim of her family's ambition and the general situation in France.