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  • 476

    THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES

    The Western Roman Empire fell in the year 476, beginning the Middle Ages.
  • Period: Dec 25, 800 to Jan 28, 814

    CHARLEMAGNE

    The first king of medieval Europe in the Middle Ages was Charlemagne, the father of medieval Europe.
  • 827

    GREGORIO IV

    He was the 101st pope of the Catholic Church, from 827 to 844. The son of a Roman patrician, he was serving as a priest in Rome when he became pontifical. Elected pope shortly after Valentine's death, he was not ordained a bishop until January 5, 828, awaiting imperial confirmation.
  • 992

    THE APPEARANCE OF MUSIC NOTATION

    The Italian Benedictine monk Guido de Arezzo (992-1050) considered the father of musical notation because he developed a notation within a pattern of four lines (tetragram), and not a single one as was done previously, he developed an approximation to the current notation
  • 1150

    UNIVERSITIES STARTED TO APPEAR

    In the 6th century, universities started to appear: associations of teachers and
    students who dedicated themselves to the study of the liberal arts. They were divided into
    two groups:
    1. Trivium: grammar, logic and rhetoric.
    2. Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and theoretical music.
  • Period: 1160 to 1230

    PEROTIN

    Perotin, called in French Pérotin le Grand or in Latin Magister Perotinus Magnus was a French medieval composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160 and died around 1230. Considered the most important composer of the School of Notre Dame de Paris, in which the polyphonic style began to take shape.
  • Period: 1284 to 1345

    SIMONE MARTINI

    Simone Martini was the son of a certain Martino who is only known to have lived in the San Egidio neighborhood and had another son who was also a painter, Donato. In addition, the father had to entrust them to Memmo di Filipuccio, he was one of the great painters of the Trecento in Italy
  • Period: 1400 to 1526

    THE MASS

    The mass is the main form of the great musical compositions of the Renaissance. We have seen that the first masses are actually dated to the fourteenth century. Composers of this time often wrote isolated movements,or movement pairs,but from the mid-fifteenth century it became common for a composer to write the complete mass,and the mass was becomes the sacred musical genre,while offering composers the possibility of creating monumental works,articulated around a series of contrasting movements.
  • Period: 1440 to Feb 3, 1468

    THE INVENTION OF JOHANNES GUTENBERG

    Johannes Gutenberg was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type, around 1440. His most recognized work is the 42-line Bible, which is considered the first book printed with movable type and was key to the spread of ideas of Martin Luther and with it the Protestant Reformation. He was involved in a famous court case in his native Mainz, where details of his hitherto secret invention were aired.
  • May 29, 1453

    THE FALL OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND BEGINNING OF THE RENAISSANCE

    The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans puts an end to the Byzantine Empire. After centuries of decline, the fall of Constantinople spelled the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city, renamed Istanbul, became the new capital of the powerful Ottoman rule.
  • 1480

    THE CAROL

    The Carol is a traditional Spanish and Portuguese musical and poetic form of Spain, very popular between the 15th and 18th centuries. Carols were originally secular songs with a refrain, of popular origin and for several voices. Carols as a musical form arose in the Renaissance, around the second half of the 15th century, and were popular until the 18th century. Later they began to be sung in churches and to be associated specifically with Christmas.
  • 1485

    VENUS BIRTH

    Venus Birth ('El nacimiento de Venus' in Spanish) is a painting by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, one of the masterpieces of the Florentine master and the Italian Quattrocento. This painting was in its time a revolutionary work in that it openly presented a nude not justified by any religious component, as well as a mythological theme from classical Greco-Roman culture prior to Christianity, which implied full acceptance.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES

    The end of this period will be the discovery of America
    soon after in 1492.
  • Period: 1509 to 1512

    LA SCUOLA DI ATENE ( THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS )

    The School of Athens is one of the most prominent paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Rafael Sanzio.1 It was sketched between 1509 and 1510 and painted between 1510 and 1512 as part of a commission to decorate The rooms that today are known as Rafael's rooms, located in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, are frescoed. La Stanza della Segnatura was the first to be decorated, and The School of Athens the second painting to be completed, after The Dispute of the Sacrament.

  • LOSS OF MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS SENSE

    At this stage, in addition to having political and economic changes. The Catholic church suffered a great crisis in the 16th century called "the Reformation". This process divided the church into Catholics and Protestants due to the political and economic aspects that the church had under power. Many religious wars broke out, which finally ceased in 1648.

  • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

    The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.