ABSTRACT
The Baroque world, in fact, may be characterized as a great theatre where everybody was assigned a particular role. Such participation, however, presupposes imagination, a faculty that is educated by the means of art. Art, therefore, was a central importance in the Baroque Age … the art of the Baroque concentrates on vivid images of situations, real and surreal, rather than on ‘history’ and absolute form. Descartes says: ‘The charm of fables awakens the mind.’ The integral aim was a way of life in conformity with the system … the character of Baroque art brought forth a ‘phenomenization’ of experience, which made man more conscious of his own existence. Baroque participation, which had secured the system, in the end therefore brought about its disintegration. 1
