Spectacles: The Magnificence of the Baroque

When:
March 15, 2016 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2016-03-15T10:45:00+00:00
2016-03-15T12:45:00+00:00
Where:
The University Women's Club
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.

The Spanish Inquisition organised ceremonies called auto da fe to combine a show of might with another important ceremonial occasion. One is represented in a work by Madrid painter Francesco Rizi. Another Madrid painter Claudio Coello was also a documenter of contemporary spectacles.