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Scientific Revolution
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Oct 31, 1517
Luther starts Reformation
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Period: Dec 13, 1545 to
Catholic Counter Reformation
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Period: Jan 24, 1572 to
John Donne
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Dutch "Golden Age of Painting"
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Baroque Era
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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel "Descent from the Cross"
Descent from the Cross
1612-14
Oil on panel, 421 x 311 cm (centre panel), 421 x 153 cm (wings)
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Thirty Years War
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Bernini's Cornaro Chapel
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Founding of the French Royal Academy of Painting & Sculpture
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Enlightenment
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Vermeer’s The Geographer
Vermeer’s The Geographer 1669 -
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Johan Sebastian Bach
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Death of King Louis XIV
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Rococo Period
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Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man
writing beginning 1729, published fully 1734, accepted authorship in public 1735 -
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Diderot becomes editor of "Encyclopedia"
Diderot was editor for 25 years -
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Industrial Revolution
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Voltair's Candide published 1759
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Neoclassical Art Period
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American Revolution Stamp Act to Yorktown
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The Death of Marat
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Oath of the Horatii
by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now in the Louvre in Paris -
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French Revolution
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W. Wordsworth ‘s Tinturn Abbey
W. Wordsworth ‘s Tinturn Abbey -
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Beethoven's 5th Symphony
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C.D. Friedrich’s Monk by the Sea
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Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa
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Romantic Period
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
