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Period: 1401 to
Renaissance
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. Its main exponents are in the field of the arts, although there was also a renewal in the sciences, both natural and human. -
Aug 7, 1420
Dome of Florence Cathedral, by Brunelleschi
The dome of Santa María del Fiore or dome of Santa María della Flor, also known as Brunelleschi's dome or dome of the Duomo of Florence, constitutes the roof of the transept of the cathedral of Santa María del Fiore in Florence. It was the largest dome in the world after the fall of the Roman Empire and is still considered the largest ever made in masonry. -
1498
Pietá, by Michelangelo Buonarroti
This work is round, which means that it can be seen from all angles, but the preferred point of view is the front.
The Virgin Mary, young, beautiful and pious, whose garments expand with numerous folds, holds the dead Christ and who, intentionally, appears older than the mother, in a calm triangular composition, full of tenderness and showing the pain of a mother seeing her dead son in her arms. -
1509
The School of Athens, by Raphael Sanzio
The School of Athens is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The fresco was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. It represents a congregation of ancient Greek philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists, including Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Heraclitus, and Zaratuestr. -
Period: 1516 to 1555
The reign of Carlos I
Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empir Ghent, County of Flanders, February 24, 1500-Cuacos de Yuste, called "the Caesar, reigned together with his mother , Juana I of Castile - the latter only nominally and until 1555 in all the Hispanic kingdoms and territories with the name of Carlos I from 1516 to1556, thus bringing together for the first time in the same person the crowns of Castile the Kingdom of Navarra included and Aragon. He was Holy Roman Emperor as CharlesV from1520 to1558. -
Period: 1520 to 1521
The revolt of the Comuneros in Castilla.
The War of the Communities of Castile, or revolt of the commoners, took place during the reign of Charles I, between 1520-1522. It was an armed uprising led by the so-called community members from the cities of the Castilian interior, with Toledo and Valladolid at the head of the uprising. -
1555
Peace of Augsburg
The Religious Peace of Augsburg, of September 25, 1555, finally accepted the existence of two different Christian churches. Princes and rulers could decide whether to stay with the old Catholic Church or adhere to the new Lutheran belief formulated in the Augsburg Confession of 1530. -
Period: 1556 to
The reign of Felipe II
Philip II of Spain, called "the Prudente" (Valladolid, May 21, 1527-San Lorenzo de El Escorial, September 13, 1598), was king of Spain from January 15, 1556 until his death; of Naples and Sicily from 1554; and of Portugal and the Algarves—as Philip I—from 1580, achieving a dynastic union that lasted sixty years. He was also king of England and Ireland iure uxoris, through his marriage to Mary I, between 1554 and 1558. -
Period: 1568 to 1571
The rebellion of the Alpujarras.
The Alpujarras rebellion was a conflict that occurred in Spain between 1568 and 1571 during the reign of Philip II. The abundant Moorish population of the Kingdom of Granada took up arms in protest against the Pragmatic Sanction of 1567, 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. -
Period: 1568 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)7 was a war that pitted the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands against their sovereign Philip II of Spain. . The rebellion against the monarch began in 1568, during the time of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Netherlands, and ended in 1648 with the recognition of the independence of the seven United Provinces, today known as the Netherlands. -
1579
The signment of the Union of Arras
The Union of Arras was an alliance between the county of Artois, the county of Hainaut and the city of Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands. early 1579 during the Eighty Years' War. Dissatisfied with the religious policies of the rebel leader Prince of Orange and the States General of the Netherlands, and especially with the rise of the radical Calvinist Republic of Ghent from October 1577. -
1579
The signment of the Union of Utretcht
The Union of Utrecht is considered the foundation of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, which was not recognized by the Spanish Empire until the Twelve Years' Truce in 1609 The treaty was signed on 23 January by the Netherlands, Zeeland, Utrecht and the province (but not the city) of Groningen. The treaty was a reaction by the Protestant provinces to the Union of Arras of 1579, in which two southern provinces and one city declared their support for Catholic Spain. -
The defeat of the Spanish Armada By England
The Armada was difficult to attack because it sailed in a 'crescent' shape. While the Armada tried to get in touch with the Spanish army, the English ships attacked fiercely. However, an important reason why the English were able to defeat the Armada was that the wind blew the Spanish ships northwards. -
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Baroque art
Baroque or baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century to the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo and Neoclassical styles . It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means of countering the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art and music, although Lutheran baroque art also developed in some parts of Europe. -
Apollo and Daphne, By bernini
The myth of Apollo and Daphne tells that Apollo mocked Eros. 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 love rejection. So when Apollo saw Daphne one day he felt wounded by love and set out in pursuit of her. -
Saint Peter´s square project by Bernini.
Saint Peter's Square (Latin: Forum Sancti Petri, Italian: Piazza San Pietro is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood (rione) of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus whom Catholics consider to be the first Pope. -
The Spinners, by Velázquez
Its other name is The Fable of Arecne, it was painted in Spain, which is currently preserved in the Museo Nacional del Prado. This work is a great example of Spanish Baroque painting, painted in the Oil on canvas style. -
Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David
In 1774, David won the Prix de Rome with the work Érasistrate découvrant la cause de la maladie d'Antiochius dans son amour pour Stratonice. This fact allowed him to stay five years in Rome, as a student under the French government. Upon his return to Paris he presented an exhibition, in which Diderot praised his painting; The success was so resounding that King Louis XVI of France allowed it to be housed in the Louvre, an ancient privilege highly desired by artists. -
Carlos IV of Spain and his family, by Francisco de Goya
The family of Charles IV is a collective portrait painted in 1800 by Francisco de Goya. It is preserved in the Prado Museum in Madrid.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.