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the beginning
The eighteenth century is the so-called "Age of Enlightenment" due to the confluence of intellectual currents based on reason, scientific methods, the spread of knowledge and the modernization of society that characterize it. -
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The illustration
The Enlightenment is man's departure from his self-blaming minority. Minority means the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. Oneself is guilty of this minority when the cause of it does not lie in lack of understanding, but in the lack of decision and courage to use it by oneself without the guidance of another. Know how! [Dare to know!] Have the courage to use your own understanding! This is the motto of the Enlightenment. -
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the 7 years war
Conflict began when the Habsburg dynasty, ruler of the Austrian Empire, decided to recover the territory of Silesia, which it had lost to Prussia during the War of the Austrian Succession . This territorial dispute added to the rivalry between Great Britain and France for control of world trade and dominance of India, Canada and Louisiana. As Great Britain was an ally of Prussia and France, of Austria, several simultaneous war conflicts broke out, to which Spain also joined, as an ally of France -
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Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and prominent musicians in history. -
the art in the neoclassicism
Neoclassical art is a current that emerged in France in 1760, which influenced painting and other visual arts. Its heyday was around 1785 and it was characterized by reflecting the thought of enlightened intellectuals (a movement that supported the use of reason to acquire knowledge) and was based on the Greco-Roman culture that stood out for being intellectual and refined. -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was the first to create a state based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. All the people who supported the French Revolution shared the same ideas about the system of government that should replace absolutism. -
Concerto for clarinet in A Major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Concerto for Clarinet in A Major, K. 622, was composed in Vienna in 1791 for clarinetist Anton Stadler, Mozart's great friend and fellow Freemason, for clarinet and orchestra. The orchestra that accompanies the soloist consists of two flutes, two bassoons, two horns and strings. -
the end
The Age of Enlightenment was centered on the period between the second English Revolution of 1688 and the French Revolution of 1789, although it continued in some places until 1830.