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The Baroque School&#160;Focus-Abengoa Foundation,&#160;directed by Antonio-Miguel Bernal Rodr&#237;guez, &#8220;Science, Nature and Art in the Time of the Baroque&#8221;, which&#160;is scheduled from the 9th&#160;&#160;to 11th&#160;&#160;of November, will be held&#160;at Seville's Hospital de los Venerables. The course is free of charge. We hope that it will be of interest to you.ArgumentWith the birth of the &#8220;new science&#8221; in the wake of Bacon, the theories on the world and nature ceased being&#160;essentially poetic&#160;&#8211;as they were considered in the long inherited mediaeval tradition&#8211; and began to be felt as&#160;essentially scientific.Modern science and the development of the artistic culture of the Baroque came hand in hand and became the cornerstones of the history of European culture. In this&#160;modern science, the discovery of the foundations of nature led to questions on the relationship between&#160;people&#160;and the&#160;natural environment, which went beyond living nature to open up new avenues to the theories of light and colour, space and time, as expressed in the creative brilliance of Vel&#225;zquez in the gardens of Villa Medicis.The &#8220;vision&#8221; of nature took on a variety of projections through the art of the Baroque. The conception of the natural world under the impetus of the 17th&#160;and 18th&#160;century scientists became increasingly removed from the previous allegories and symbolism. The landscape as an&#160;expressive medium&#160;emerged in pure form as man interacted with nature.Recalling among others, Andr&#233; Mollet in his treatise&#160;Le Jardin de Plaisir&#160;(1651), from the&#160;gardens of delights&#160;of the 16th&#160;century to&#160;the gardens of love&#160;of the 17th&#160;century, natural history experienced a qualitative leap in the representation of nature as art and in art under the guise of collecting and as visual culture.This art and science in the time of the Baroque were not antagonistic and instead were interrelated in the construction of a new pictorial time and space where&#160;nature&#160;became viewed even more intensely less as a&#160;divine hieroglyphic&#160;and more as&#160;visual culture, a faithful reflection of the influence of science on art.RegistrationFree entranceAccess to the whole course or to individual conferences is open. The sessions will be held in the Church of the Hospital de los Venerables, which hosts Focus-Abengoa Foundation. The main entrance is located in Los Venerables Square.By registering at Focus-Abengoa official website, attendants will be awarded a certified diploma and will be able to gain credits. Loyola University Andalucia, Pablo de Olavide University and University of Seville will officially award ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer System).Price: 30 euros.ScholarshipsScholarships will be granted to obtain diplomas (limited). More information available on our website.ProgrammeMonday, 9th November19:45 h. Presentation20:00 h. Inaugural Conference: Poussin&#8217;s Reflections on Man, Nature and Art Keith Christiansen, Metropolitan Museum of New YorkTuesday, 10th November10:00 h. Jesuits in Baroque culture: art, education, science Guillermo Rodr&#237;guez Izquierdo SJ., Loyola University Andalucia11:00 h. Natural history and visual culture in the seventeenth century Jos&#233; Ram&#243;n Marcaida, University of Cambridge12:00 h. Break12:30 h. Science, the sciences and Baroque Javier Viar, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum17:00 h. Symbolic Baroque Ornithology: birds in books of emblems and prints of the 17th century Jos&#233; Julio Garc&#237;a Arranz, University of Extremadura18:00 h. 17th century Italy: the breeze through the leaves Manuela Mena, Prado National Museum19:00 h. Organ concert leaded by Jos&#233; Enrique Ayarra Jarne, Focus-Abengoa Foundation organist, at Hospital de los Venerables ChurchWednesday, 11th November10:00 h. Still life: the vanities in the work of Vald&#233;s Leal Enrique Valdivieso, University of Seville11:00 h. Vel&#225;zquez and nature Guillaume Kienzt, Louvre Museum12:00 h. Round table About landscapePresenter: Juan Fern&#225;ndez LacombaParticipants: Javier Viar, Jos&#233; Ram&#243;n Marcaida and Guillaume Kienzt13:30 h. Closure15:30 h. Campus visit to Focus-Abengoa Sanl&#250;car la Mayor Landscapes of Guadiamar Fernando Amores and Juan Fern&#225;ndez LacombaScientific coordinationAntonio-Miguel Bernal Rodr&#237;guez, University of Seville. National Prize in HistoryCoordinatorRoc&#237;o Garc&#237;a-Carranza, Focus-Abengoa Foundation