Translating and Rethinking

Organizado conjuntamente por la Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico y el Museo Nacional del Prado, el itinerario Calderón y la pintura pretende invitar al público a contemplar la pintura barroca de la colección permanente desde la sutilidad conceptual y estética de Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681).

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In that sense, Calderón’s theatre never ceases to remind us that translation was a cultural phenomenon of enormous significance in his time, not only because it contributed to the revision of classical postulates by critically re-reading the sources, but also because it demonstrated the influence that interpretative processes have over reality. In a certain way, mythological fables, religious dogmas, craft techniques or pictorial practices, as well as the capture of stimuli through the senses and the nervous system, translate reality on the basis of human limitations.