Identity Tolls

Organised jointly by the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico and the Museo Nacional del Prado, the route Calderón and Painting aims to invite the public to contemplate the Baroque painting of the permanent collection from the conceptual and aesthetic subtlety of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681). 

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In Calderón de la Barca’s theatre, the world is understood as the projection of a wider reality. Thus, life consists of a perpetual the atricalisation. Such an approach highlights the enormous influence that creators can exert on collective imaginary. In order to access reality, our intelligence must pay the toll of the senses and the representational forms. So as to construct collective memory, artistic mediation is unavoidable.