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S04E02: HUM 223 (Wk1): When Beauty Becomes an Argument: The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque
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When Beauty Becomes an Argument: The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque
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In 1527, an army sacked Rome and someone scratched Martin Luther's name into a Raphael fresco. This shorter episode uses that moment to focus on two questions that shape the Counter-Reformation Baroque: Who has final authority in the Christian life, and what happens when a church turns beauty into an argument?
From the Council of Trent to Ignatius Loyola's "composition of place," Bernini's immersive sculpture, Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew and Conversion of Saint Paul, and…
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