IT 1751 Lecture 13: AP:IT 1751 - Lecture 13 - Tommaso Campanella & the Ideal Society (I)
16 Jan 2019
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Was an italian jesuit brother, baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician best known for his grandiose frescoes using the illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed. Period of lots of tensions and conflicts with the formation of new sciences. There is also political conflicts with the italy being under the rule of spain. Movement and transformation of the time can be seen throughout art. His will was not broken by torture or imprisonment. He was a dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet. His influence was bernardino telesio (1509-1588) also from calabria. After being inspired by telesio he wrote technology as inspired by the. Particularly influenced by astrology and alchemy in florence. He met galileo in padua and became a defender of the copernican ideas and. Denounced by the inquisition for his ideas. Was aware of the political and social influences of the time.
