This excellent essay on baroque art makes images of baroque painting and sculpture available to the reader, demonstrating how they express the essence of the archetype through the symbol and myth of their historical period.

This essay raises the study of baroque art and its relationship with the main archetype (the "founding event") of its historical period (1600-1750). Through the iconographic and mythological study of his works of art, both painting and sculpture, it has been possible to connect Baroque art with the culture and mentality of his time, demonstrating how each work of art reflects the sociocultural moment, through the images of the dominant myth (the fundamental archetype), which corresponds to a common environment, delimited by a time, a style and an artistic aesthetic, a sensitivity, in short, a worldview and, therefore, an expression of the world; Thus the myth and its "mythical geography" allow us to glimpse the imaginary experience where the perennial wisdom of the archetypes is manifested through art and symbols.

Antoni Amaro (Barcelona, 1959) has a degree in Journalism, Psychology and a Master's in Analytical Psychology from the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona, a Master's in Comparative Studies of Art, Literature and Thought, and a PhD in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona.

In his search for knowledge of the human soul, he has studied in depth subjects such as symbology, Neoplatonic philosophy, hermeticism, mythology, alchemy and tarot. His interest in art and the symbolic world led him to study the Western occult tradition as a manifestation of archetypes relating the unconscious to culture and art. As a specialist in the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, he works with the symbolic world and with the archetypes of the collective unconscious.