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For the second consecutive year, the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado and the School de Philosophy y Letras of the University of Navarra have organized the lecture series del Museo del Prado, which on this occasion focuses on the 16th century and "The Age of Geniuses", as indicated by its degree scroll.

The inaugural lecture was given by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Full Professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, who started his discussion paper by approaching the term genius and genius, and applying this concept to art. For the director of the Museo del Prado cycle, "genius establishes an inquisitive dialogue with the environment in which it lives, it does not conform", although genius is not established in total rupture with the environment and refers rather to the emergence of the power of the natural.

The speaker also pointed out that genius generally occurs in moments of crisis, of change, and that is precisely what happened at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. To illustrate this idea, he gave four dates as examples: 1492 with the finding of America and what this meant for the opening of the knowledge and change in the way of conceiving the world; the year 1517, in which Martin Luther published the 95 thesis , a document addressed to the Church of Rome in which he discredited the papal doctrine on indulgences, and which was nailed by Luther, agreement with tradition, on the doors of the Wittenberg Palace Church on October 31 of that year, starting a theological discussion that led to the Protestant Reformation, and which meant the splitting of the Western identity. To these two dates he added the year 1527, with the sack of Rome, in which German and Spanish troops of Charles I provoked the destruction of the Italian city; and the year 1545 with the Council of Trent, which meant the reform of the Roman Church as a response to the Protestant reform.

After setting out this backdrop to frame the art of that period, Calvo Serraller took a tour of different authors of the 16th century, beginning with three great Renaissance figures - Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael - who served as a precedent for the later movement, Mannerism, in which an attempt was made to subjectivize art, which no longer depended solely on rules, but on the interpretation of the subjects who applied them. MannerismIn these three artists, an attempt was made to subjectivize art, which no longer depended only on the rules, but on the interpretation of the subjects who applied them. "In these three artists the balance between the rebirth of classical antiquity, and the path that, in turn, can break it," said the director cycle, before continuing with other authors such as Titian, Tintoretto, Correggio, Parmigianino, Lorenzo Lotto, Bronzino, Arcimboldo or El Greco, through which he was discovering various aspects of Mannerism.

The next session of the course will take place on Tuesday, January 16, at 7 p.m., and will be held at position by Fernando Marías, Full Professor of Art History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, who will give the lecture entitled "Último Rafael: arquitecturas y pinturas" (Last Raphael: architectures and paintings).

This cycle has the sponsorship of Viscofán and the partnership of Fundación Diario de Navarra, and is part of the existing relationship between the School of Philosophy and Letters and the Fundación de Amigos del Museo del Prado, through the practices of students and activities developed by professors of the area of Art History.