Quiz (Baroque + India)

French people were focused on

Rationality (thinking and reasoning) - “I think therefore I am” Decart mentality

Scepticism (we have to question everything)

People were moving away from the church and were more focus on new things such as Galileo

Palladian architecture focus

Simplicity, everything in its simplest form

Importance of Galileo

The idea of the expanding universe (shown in Baroque design) and a focus on observation and thinking (scientific methods)

Modern and Pre-Modern mentalities

Pre-modern is about being told what to do

Modern is about making observations and thinking (invention) (scientific methods allow us to think)

Charles Perrault

Said we focus too much on proportion 

Context: at the time of Baroque and Galileo