Courtships, Weddings & Married Life: The Magnificent Age of the Baroque

When:
February 23, 2016 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2016-02-23T10:45:00+00:00
2016-02-23T12:45:00+00:00
Where:
The Course
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Cost:
£49
Contact:
The Course
020 7266 7815

The Course offers a series of art history lectures on “The Magnificent Age of the Baroque” and will focus on how people lived – their homes, their decor, their fashion, their rituals – and how this was reflected in some of the most magnificent art of the age.

In church images, the mystic wedding was an increasingly potent image but what was real life like in the marital home? Texts like Paul de Barry’s ‘Solitude of Phillagia’ emerged urging women to consider the benefits of solitude.