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'The queerness of the Roman baroque via Francesco Borromini’s church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane'.
The research theorizes the queerness of the Roman baroque via Francesco Borromini’s church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. Queerness has recently become a subject of scholarly interest, its academic formation originating in the early ‘90s.
Conversely, the baroque has long been a staple of academic research, making up one half of the most renowned binary in the history of architecture, with the ‘classical’ constituting the baroque’s normative counterpart. Few accounts stage the intersection of queer theory and the baroque; even fewer concern the queerness of the Roman baroque. The research anchors itself on the imbricated notions of body and space to attend to this complicated territory.
