Medieval Art

Finish middle ages

1492 BCE

Middle ages finish at 1492 with the descubriment of America.

Ideas about art and architecture

1356 BCE

Art during the Middle Ages saw many changes up to the emergence of the early Renaissance period. Early art subjects were initially restricted to the production of Pietistic painting (religious art or Christian art) in the form of illuminated manuscripts, mosaics and fresco paintings in churches. There were no portrait paintings in the art of the Middle Ages. The colors were generally somewhat muted.

Live in the castle or in the town

1234 BCE

Discover what life was like living in a castle. Banquetsformed the main entertainment of the interior. The lord,his mistress and her retainers sat at a large party orbanquet and, when they ate and drank, they observed the jokesof a professional jester or listened to the songs and music of thejoglars. The life of the people was important. The land gave its lords and peasants their food; the forest provided them with wood for houses and furniture. They made their own linen, wool and leather linen.

Ideas about social and political state

1178 BCE

Literary manifestations in vernacular languages ​​or romances. Thus, for example, in the Iberian peninsula Spanish was imposed because it was the language of those who carried out the reconquest.

Ideas about social and political state

1066 BCE

With feudalism, a new system was created that allowed balance and mutual aid between royalty and nobility, giving rise to a new distribution of power and wealth. The way in which they developed it was vassalage, subordination of the latter with respect to the former.

Start middle eages

476 BCE

Middle ages start around 476