Classicism zoom session

23 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Classicism as the dominant aesthetic expression in Europe - the application of Greek rules on architecture, sculpture and painting (based on mathematical calculus) in modern works. The pioneering works of the Italian  Quattrocento : Reference to Andrea Palladio,  I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, 1570; Leonardo da Vinci,  the Vitruvius Man.Analysis of several examples of these appropriations of the ancient perspective of balance, beauty as a means to convey the then current cultural weltanschauung - neoclassicism.