The Enlightened Brain

Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy

Mallgrave, Harry Francis (author)

The Architect's Brain ; 26-40

2010-01-08

15 pages

9781405195850 , 9781444317275

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444317275.ch2

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

the papacy, promoting new order of reformers, Jesuits ‐ charged with mounting a Counter‐Reformation , Descartes, disengaging the body from the soul ‐ famous dualism of a res extensa and res cognitans , artistic sensitivities ‐ already shifting in Italy, because of religious crisis , Architecture, and its role ‐ in the first church in the baroque style , artistic sway of humanist brain ‐ touchstone of Italian artistic culture in fifteenth century , Reformation in northern Europe, 16th century ‐ challenging authority of the Church of Rome , Gothic architecture, universally seen within classical culture as “bizarre” , The Enlightened Brain ‐ Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy , Perrault's rehabilitation ‐ intellectual upheaval, the French Enlightenment , French philosopher René Descartes, ‘Cartesian doubt’ ‐ cleansing sciences of speculative confusions