What do they tell us – about political, religious, and artistic plots and about the many dialogues and confrontations between them– the life stories of nuns, intriguing images and discursive bewilderment displayed by the first baroque practitioners in the Iberian Peninsula? In what ways may be provocative the appropriation of that language by contemporary artists? What contexts –imperial, colonial, postcolonial– determine each other? From architecture of Mafra’s convent in Saramago and the theatricality of Madre de Deus’ convent in Cervantes, to eighteenth century Spanish visual poetry,  the grotesque esperpéntico and the work of Siza Vieira and Lobo Antunes, dealing with study cases.Tthis symposium aims to show and discuss relationships between architecture, society and literature in the Iberian baroque.

Scientific Comittee

Maria Fernanda de Abreu

Horácio Costa

Enric Bou

José Joaquín Parra Bañón

Nuno Senos

Organization