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Étiqueté : Baroque period (c. 1600-1750)

Journées d’étude : “The Global Baroque: European Material Culture between Conquest, Trade and Mission, 1600-1750”, King’s Manor, University of York, du 10 au 11 juillet 2025

The period of Western art history known as “the Baroque” has traditionally been interpreted as a stylistic phenomenon. However, artistic production in Europe circa 1600–1750 was enabled by a proto-industrial world system dominated by Spain and Portugal, the Netherlands and later Britain. As a result, material culture became entangled in networks of trade, colonial rule and Catholic global mission stretching from Naples to Nagasaki. This conference will broaden perspectives on the Baroque, embracing its transcontinental...

Parution : Luigi Collarile, Maria Rosa De Luca (eds), “Geographies of Sound Sounding and Listening to the Urban Space of Early Modern Italy with a Contemporary Perspective”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023

Sound is an essential element of human experience. It is part of the complex semiotic system that enables human communities to orient themselves in time and space, to be informed, to participate in social life as conscious listeners, capable of deciphering and giving meaning to the collective action of the urban space in which they live. Deeper sound horizons reverberate at different levels on the sonic dimension of reality, contributing to a more complex semantic...