THE KINGDOM OF PERSIA AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN PAINTING Descartes, Cervantes, and Le Brun mean, respectively, the establishment of a world that leaves the field of magic to enter into that of scientific thought; That leaves the poetic world of the novels of chivalry to accede to the sensibility of a reality written in prose; Which finally gives up the pictorial representation based on the magical physiology or the 'natural' signs of the physics of the humors to give way to a 'scientific' representation of the human passions: The queens of Persia was a painting and also An ambitious ideological manifesto, a philosophical, scientific and artistic argument in some way equivalent to some works of the avant-garde of the twentieth century that bring together philosophy, science and art. FÉLIX DE AZÚA is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Barcelona, writer, poet and essayist. In t...read more
