The Baroque zoom session
28 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The Baroque: its aesthetic characteristics. The dialogue between neoclassic balance and harmony and the new movement, colour, brilliancy, exuberance. examples from Bernini.
The baroque and its role within the Counter-Reformation - S. Peter's basilica and the metaphorical tembrace of Christendom by means of the eliptical dispostion of the building.
The aesthetic views of Catholic doctrine as depicted in paintings and frescos on religious themes, either episodes of the Bible or hagiographic. Example of Andrea Pozzo's
Gloria di Sant' Ignazio.
Themes of classic mythology and the philosophical questioning of human determinism or free will.