• 6. “More beautiful than the truth” - Monteverdi and his constellation

  • Sep 11 2020
  • Length: 47 mins
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6. “More beautiful than the truth” - Monteverdi and his constellation

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  • Visual art – and especially the work of Caravaggio and Rubens (in different but complementary ways) now aimed to intensify sensory experience and drama. What Monteverdi called the “natural path to imitation” was a radical bid to represent, magnify and even ‘improve’ upon nature through song and music theatre. The Church was not alone in finding this secularisation of knowledge alarming. Even the contemporary French philosopher Montaigne noted “Our mind is an erratic, dangerous and heedless tool. It is hard to impose order and moderation upon it”.
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