The article aims at undertaking an analysis of some of the aesthetic relations between the built environment and the body-mental system through the experience of the Mezquita-Catedral in Córdoba. This ur ban piece of the Andalusian city contains all three levels of aesthetic experience contemplated by the discipline founded by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten in the Eighteenth century: (1) that of Biophilia, according to which beauty is strongly linked to the vitality of natural spaces as ancestral genetic reminders of our dwelling in-and-with Nature; (2) the Somaesthetic, which brings the living body, too often set aside, back to the center of aesthetic experience; (3) and finally, the Neuro-aesthetic, which aims at identifying what brain patterns are involved when we observe what is considered beautiful. The aesthetic experience, of a work of art or architecture, is the result of a complex perceptual emotional-cognitive system that is based on three distinct levels, whose boundaries are not clearly separated but coexist and prevail one over the other depending on the circumstances: the biological level, rooted in the common heritage, which emerges particularly within the Jardin de los Naranjos; the bodily level, driven by somatic sensations, in this case strongly accentuated by the complex labyrinthine system experienced within the Mezquita; and finally, the cognitive level, predominantly run by the neocortical system and sha ken by the mystical vision of the altar of the Capilla Mayor.
Sorrentino, Antonio.
"The garden, the labyrinth, and the altar. Aesthetic experiences in the Mezquita-Catedral of Córdoba". Pólemos,vol. V, no. 2, 2024, 137-153.https://www.rivistapolemos.it/the-garden-the-labyrinth-and-the-altar-aesthetic-experiences-in-the-mezquita-catedral-of-cordoba/?lang=en
APA
Sorrentino, A. (2024). The garden, the labyrinth, and the altar. Aesthetic experiences in the Mezquita-Catedral of Córdoba. Pólemos,V (2), 137-153https://www.rivistapolemos.it/the-garden-the-labyrinth-and-the-altar-aesthetic-experiences-in-the-mezquita-catedral-of-cordoba/?lang=en
Chicago
Sorrentino, Antonio. "The garden, the labyrinth, and the altar. Aesthetic experiences in the Mezquita-Catedral of Córdoba" PólemosV, no. 2 (2024): 137-153. https://www.rivistapolemos.it/the-garden-the-labyrinth-and-the-altar-aesthetic-experiences-in-the-mezquita-catedral-of-cordoba/?lang=en
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