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Contemporary age
(1789 – present):
since the revolution
French until
present. -
The Baroque was a cultural period of the
Modern Age that developed between the
Renaissance and the Enlightenment in Western Europe and
in the Latin American colonies. -
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Ancient Age begins with the birth of writing, and ends in the year 476 AD, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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It is about the year 1453, in which two events take place that will radically transform the Old World: the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the Ottomans and the first publications of Gutenberg through his printing press
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The name Mesopotamia, in Greek, means 'land between two rivers', and it is due to the fact that this civilization developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area where Iraq and Syria are currently located. It was the first civilization that, along with the Egyptians, developed writing. -
The Indus Valley Civilization was born between 3300 and 1300 B.C. This was succeeded by the Vedas, in whose era the original texts of Hinduism and the caste-based social stratification that still marks Hindu society were composed. The Vedic period ended in 500 B.C. -
Romanesque art was the first unified art of the Western Christian world and developed in the 11th and 12th centuries, reaching in some areas until the year 1250. It is characterized by wide pillars composed of prismatic cores, semicircular arches, buttresses on walls that they support vaults and covers, domes on tubes, semicircular apses, bent arches, crypts, bell towers, decorative friezes and the inclusion of sculptures. -
The Renaissance began the
Modern age. It was a time marked by
renewal of thought that put reason first,
science and mathematics in order to achieve
new knowledge. This led to important
cultural, social, political and scientific changes. -
The Ancient Period of Egypt goes from the year 2635 to 2155 B.C. This period, known as the "era of the pyramids." -
Already in the Renaissance, period in which
who turned his gaze towards Greece and Rome,
the artists called this style “Gothic” in a
clear reference to the Gothic peoples who provoked
the fall of Rome, considering it crude and
inferior to the constructions of the classical world. -
Rome was founded, according to legend, on April 21, 753 BC and fell in AD 476, having nearly 1,200 years of independence and approximately 700 years of rule as a great power in the ancient world. This makes it one of the most enduring civilizations of antiquity. -
It is an Asian civilization that emerged in the eastern region of the continent, around 5,000 or 6,000 years ago (according to their own oral accounts), although their oldest written documents date from about 3,500 years ago. -
The locutions Ancient Greece and Ancient Greece refer to the period of Greek history that spans from the Dark Ages of Greece, beginning in the year 1200 BC. C. and the Doric invasion, until the year 146 a. C. and the Roman conquest of Greece after the battle of Corinth. -
The Venuses mean famine and not
fertility. They are female statuettes
bone, antler, ivory, stone, terracotta, wood or
mud. They are, in general, small sculptures of
round lump between 5 and 25 centimeters in height. -
A cave painting is
a drawing or sketch that exists on some rocks or
caves, especially the prehistoric ones. -
Prehistory is the time what goes from the appearance of the first beings humans up to invention of writing.
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The art
contemporary includes artistic expressions
that arose from the 20th century until the
today, which is why it is also called art
modern. The term contemporary means what
occurs at the present time and comprises the entire
contemporary artistic creation.