These works reflect the evolving status of brass instruments from functional devices to powerful symbols in visual culture. In the 19th and 20th centuries, artists continued to depict brass instruments, often in new contexts. Impressionist painters like Edgar Degas included brass instruments in scenes of theater and orchestral rehearsals. In Degas's "The Orchestra at the Opera" (c. 1870), brass players in the pit are visible, their instruments catching the light. The painting captures the visual spectacle of the opera house while also documenting the role of brass instruments in the orchestra. Modern artists like Pablo Picasso occasionally incorporated brass instruments in cubist still lifes, breaking them down into geometric forms. Picasso's "Musical Instruments" series (c. 1914) includes a flattened trumpet, its shape reduced to arcs