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Period: 1400 to
Renaince
Renaissance is the name given in the 19th century to a broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.1 It was a transition period between the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. -
1420
Florence cathedral`s dome ,by bruncelleschi
The dome is an absolute masterpiece of art, enchanting the world since the moment of its creation: the symbol of Florence, of Renaissance culture, and of all Western humanism. The dome was built between 1420 to a plan by Filippo Brunelleschi, and is still the largest masonry vault in the world. Such a structure had been planned since the 1300s, but the admirable innovation of Brunelleschi was to create it without reinforcements in wood, since none could have sustained a cupola of this size. -
1498
Pietà,by Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Vatican Pieta or Pietà is a marble sculpture group made by Michelangelo between 1498 and 1499. Its dimensions are 1.74 by 1.95 m. It is located in Vatican City. The sculpture represents the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ after the crucifixion. The drama that the scene represents is balanced by the tenderness and beauty of the whole: a young mother begging for mercy for her dead son. -
1509
The school of Athens by Raphael Sanzio
School of Athens, fresco, painted by the artist Raphael, in the Stanza della Segnatura, a room in the private apartments of Pope Julius II in the Vatican. It is perhaps the most famous of all of Raphael's paintings and one of the most important works of art of the Renaissance. Raphael was recalled to Rome at the end of 1508 by Julius II at the suggestion of the architect Donato Bramante.
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1521
The revolt of the Comuneros in Castilla
The War of the Communities of Castile was the armed uprising of the so-called commoners, which occurred in the Crown of Castile from 1520 to 1522, that is, at the beginning of the reign of Charles I. The protagonist cities were those in the interior of the plateau. Central, with those of Segovia, Toledo and Valladolid at the head of the uprising. -
Period: 1567 to
The Eighty Years War
The Eighty Years' War (known in Spain as the War of Flanders and in the Netherlands as the War of Independence of the Netherlands) was a war that pitted the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands against their sovereign Philip II of Spain. -
Period: 1568 to 1571
The rebelion of the Alpujarras
The Alpujarras rebellion was a conflict that occurred in Spain, during the reign of Philip II. The abundant Moorish population of the Kingdom of Granada took up arms in protest against the Pragmatic Sanction , which limited their cultural freedoms. When the royal power managed to defeat the rebels, it was decided to deport the surviving Moors to various points in the rest of the Crown of Castile, whose Moorish population increased from twenty thousand to one hundred thousand people. -
The defeat of the spanish Armada By England (1588)
The Grande y Felicísima Armada or Great Armada of 1588 (commonly known as the Invincible Armada) was a maritime military expedition that, after the victory at the Battle of Lepanto and the consolidation of Spanish power in Europe, was planned by the Spanish monarch Felipe II to destroy her counterpart Elizabeth I and invade England. -
Period: to
Baroque art
The Baroque was a period of history in Western culture originated by a new way of conceiving art and which, starting from different historical-cultural contexts, produced works in numerous artistic fields: literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, opera, dance, theater, etc. It manifested itself mainly in Western Europe, although due to colonialism it also occurred in numerous colonies of European powers, mainly in Latin America. -
Apollo and Daphne,By Bernini
He, upset by Apollo's arrogance, planned to take revenge on him and to do so he threw a golden arrow at him, which caused immediate love in whoever he wounded. Another shot wounded the Nymph Daphne with a lead arrow, which caused her to be rejected in love. So when Apollo saw Daphne one day he felt wounded by love and set out in pursuit of her. But Daphne, who suffered the opposite effect, fled from him -
Sanit Peter,s square project by Bernini
Saint Peter's Square was designed by the architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, at the height of Pope Alexander VII. It was completed in 1667, after eleven years of intense and onerous work. The square is made up of an “oval space with three centers” (196 x 149 meters), with semicircular colonnades connected to the basilica by “arms” or closed ambulacra, delimiting a large trapezoidal-shaped zone. -
The spinners,by Velazquez
The mythological story of the contest between the goddess Athena (Minerva to the Romans) and the mortal woman Arachne was perhaps told best by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses (Book VI). According to Ovid, Arachne lived in the country of Lydia (which had a legendary reputation for producing some of the most splendid textiles in the ancient world), where she matured into one of the finest weavers ever known -
Period: to
Neoclassical art
Neoclassicism emerged in the 18th century to name the aesthetic movement that reflected in the arts the intellectual principles of the Enlightenment, which had been occurring in philosophy since the mid-18th century and had consequently been transmitted to all areas of the world. culture. Although, coinciding with the decline of Napoleon Bonaparte, Neoclassicism was losing followers in favor of Romanticism. -
Oath of the Horatii,by Jascques-Louis David
It depicts a scene from a Roman legend about a seventh-century BC dispute between two warring cities, Rome and Alba Longa and stresses the importance of patriotism and masculine self-sacrifice for one's country. Instead of the two cities sending their armies to war, they agree to choose three men from each city; the victor in that fight will be the victorious city.From Rome, three brothers from a Roman family, the Horatii, agree to end the war by fighting three brothers from a family of Alba. -
Carlos IV of spain and his family, by Francisco de Goya
Goya began working on the sketches—of which the Prado preserves five—in the spring of 1800. He painted the final version between July 1800 and June 1801, sending the account in December 1801. It belonged to the private collections of the Royal Palace of Madrid, where it appears in the 1814 inventory. It became part of the newly founded Prado Museum in 1824, by order of King Ferdinand VII, who appears portrayed in the painting.