The main argument of this conference will be to study the rhetorical exchanges between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period. These two discursive and expressive regimes tend to be studied independently or considered in their chronological sequence as well as in their structural and ideological opposition (profane/ religious discourse). If they did not exist in sequence, did they coexist in mutual ignorance, as is often thought? Although in opposition as far as their ends are (...)