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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
He was an Italian sculptor, architect and painter. He worked mainly in Rome and is considered the most outstanding sculptor of his generation, creator of the Baroque style of sculpture. -
Beginning of Baroque
Baroque art was a style of art in Europe during the 17th century that used exaggerated athleticism and clearly recognizable details to create drama, tension, fussiness, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style originated in Rome, Italy, around 1600, and then spread to most of Europe. -
Establishment of the Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company is a chartered company established in the history of the Netherlands for the development of Asia, the world's first multinational corporation, limited by shares, and the world's first stock exchange was also founded in Amsterdam by the Dutch East India Company. -
Death of Elizabeth I
Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan Age, also known as the "Golden Age", and her succession to the throne was characterized by religious reconciliation, which not only succeeded in maintaining the unity of England, but also made England one of the most powerful and richest countries in Europe after nearly half a century of rule, and English culture reached its zenith. -
The first female composer to write a song
When the Caccini family visited France in 1604, Henry IV praised her, "You are the best singer in France." Her operatic work, The Liberation of Ruggero, is considered the first opera written by a female musician. -
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The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years' War was a large-scale European war that evolved from a civil war in the Holy Roman Empire. -
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Henry Purcell
He is considered one of the greatest British composers, dominating the music scene for two hundred years, and no home-grown British composer reached his achievements until Edward Elgar became famous in the early 20th century. -
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Marriage of William III and Mary II of the Netherlands
When Mary was 15 years old in 1675, her cousin William III, Prince of Orange and Consul of Holland, proposed marriage to her, and on November 4, 1677, Mary formally married William at St. James's Palace in London, under the auspices of the Anglican Archbishop Henry Compton. Later that month, Mary sailed with her husband from the rough seas to the Netherlands. -
Johann Sebastian Bach was born
Bach was a Baroque composer and performer of organ, harpsichord, and violin, as well as a master of Baroque music, and is considered one of the most important composers in the history of music. -
The end of Baroque
Bach's death marked the end of the Baroque period, and in the 18th century, public concerts were attracting a new audience. The rococo and dashing styles originating in France gradually replaced the baroque style. It was not until around 1750 that the Classical style took shape and replaced the Baroque.