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476
Begin of the middle age
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476
La caída del Imperio romano de Occidente
The fall of the Roman Empire of the West was the period of decline of the Roman Empire of the West in which it lost the authority to exercise its dominion and its vast territory was divided into numerous successor political entities. -
843
Tratado de Verdún
The Treaty of Verdun was a pact reached on August 10, 843 between Lotario I, Luis el Germánico and Carlos el Calvo - children of Ludovico Pío and grandsons of Charlemagne -, in the homonymous French town. -
1450
Begin of the RENAISSANCE
Renaissance is the name given in the nineteenth century to a broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was a period of transition between the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the Modern Age. -
1450
The print
Printing is a mechanical method intended to reproduce texts and images on paper, cloth or other materials. In its classical form, it consists of applying an ink, generally oily, on metal parts (types) to transfer it to the paper by pressure. Although it began as an artisanal method, its implementation in the mid-fifteenth century brought with it a cultural revolution. -
1490
Miguel Ángel
The first reliefs were the Virgin of the stairs and the battle of the centaurs, preserved in the Buonarroti House in Florence, in which there is already a clear definition of their style. He shows himself as the clear heir of Florentine art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while establishing a more direct link with classical art. -
Oct 12, 1492
The Discovery of America
The discovery of America is called the historical event of October 12, 1492, consisting of the arrival in America of an expedition directed by Christopher Columbus by mandate of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragón. Columbus had left Puerto de Palos two months and nine days before and, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, arrived at an island in the Americas, Guanahani, believing he had arrived in India. -
1500
Gioconda
Between 1503 and 1506 he works on a small portrait, La Gioconda, probably the most famous painting in Western painting.The work represents Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. It was a painting very dear to Leonardo and that he had with him until his death. Its current appearance is misleading due to a thick layer of darkened varnishes, whose removal is being delayed due to the risks involved. -
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THE BAROQUE
The Baroque was a period of history in Western culture originated by a new way of conceiving art and that, starting from different historical-cultural contexts, produced works in numerous artistic fields: literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, opera , dance, theater. -
Death of Isabel I of England
Around two o'clock in the morning, the queen died on March 24, 1603, and it is said that she died "slightly like a lamb, easily like a ripe apple from the tree." -
Las meninas o The family of Felipe IV
Las meninas o The family of Felipe IV considers the masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez. Finished in 1656, according to Antonio Palomino, date unanimously accepted by critics, corresponding to the artist's last stylistic period, that of full maturity. -
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The classicism
It was expressed in all domains of art, from literature and music in its various manifestations to the visual arts called "beautiful" and so-called "decorative." It appears together with the Mannerism, which in turn gave way to the Baroque; being renewed through Neoclassicism and attacked by Romanticism.
