Baroque is revealed here not through the usual conversation about painting and architecture, but through scents, memory, and sensory experience. The lecture will connect the history of European perfumery, the olfactory culture of the 17th century, and the modern museum perspective on art, where fragrance becomes a full-fledged guide to the era. Sometimes, understanding a great era is aided not by dates and names, but by what is almost impossible to preserve in a museum showcase - scents. It is from this rare entry point that Daria Donina, a researcher of olfactory heritage, offers a view of the baroque. The conversation will be related to the exhibition "Eternal Baroque. From the 17th to the 21st Century," but will go far beyond the usual tour commentary. Listeners will be invited to see the 17th century in Western Europe as a time of sharp contrasts. On one hand - cities with heavy, noxious smells of everyday life, on the other - palaces, where the rules of exquisite etiquette required a special attitude towards the body, objects, and the sensory perception of the world. Thus, a conversation about European perfumery, about items of olfactory culture, and about how fragrance gradually transforms from a mundane necessity into a part of aesthetics is born. Find other events in Nizhny Novgorod on KudaGo.