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1420
Florence Cathedral's dome, by Brunelleschi
Is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. -
1498
Pietá,by Michlelangelo Buonarroti
Is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the Sixth Sorrow of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture and often taken as the start of the High Renaissance. -
Period: 1500 to
Renaissence
It a was a period that promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art. Some of the greatest thinkers, authors, statesmen, scientists and artists in human history lived during this era -
1509
The school of Athens by Raphael Sanzio
It is a fresco painted from 1509 to 1511 where a lot of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists from Ancient Greece are shown, some of them are Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras -
Period: 1516 to 1556
The reign of Carlos I
With his reign the Habsburg House was established in Spain, replacing the Trastamara dynasty.He also Conquer the Mexican Empire by Hernán Cortés in 1521.As well as the Conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro in 1533. -
Period: 1520 to 1521
The revolt of the Comuneros in Castilla
It was motivated by the political instability present in the Crown of Castile from the beginning of the 16th century.
Ultimately, the revolt was suppressed by forces loyal to King Charles I after a series of battles but it remainded for the history -
1555
Peace of Augsburg
It was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg. It ended the religious struggle between the two groups and , allowed rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as the official -
Period: 1556 to
The reign of Felipe II
Under Philip II, Spain reached the height of its influence and power, sometimes called the Spanish Golden Age, and ruled territories in every continent then known to Europeans.. Philip finished building the royal palace El Escorial in 1584. -
Period: 1568 to 1571
The rebellion of the Alpujarras
It was the second such revolt against the Castilian Crown in the mountainous Alpujarra region.When a rumor spread in 1568 that the Ottomans had finally come to liberate them,priests all over the countryside were attacked.Most of the Morisco population was then expelled from the Kingdom of Granada and was dispersed throughout the Kingdom of Castille -
Period: 1568 to
The Eighty Years War
In 1579 the northern provinces of the Low Countries, mostly Protestant, declared themselves independent creating the "United Provinces"
The southern provinces, mostly Catholic, remained loyal to Felipe II However, the war between Spain & the protestants of the United Provinces continued until the peace of Westphalia in1648 -
1579
The signment of the union of Arras
It was an alliance between the County of Artois, the County of Hainaut and the city of Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands in early 1579 during the Eighty Years' War. Dissatisfied with the religious policies of rebel leader Prince of Orange they signed various documents. These signatories would begin negotiations for a separate peace with the Spanish Crown, -
1579
The signment of the Union of Utrecht
It unifyed the northern provinces of the Netherlands.It was to improve the military power -
The defeat of the Spanish Armada by England
The Spanish Armada was defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines.The Spanish suffered defeat after the English launched fire ships into the Spanish fleet, breaking the ships’ formation and making them susceptible to the English ships’ heavy guns. Many Spanish ships were also lost during the long voyage home, and a total of perhaps 15,000 Spaniards died -
Period: to
Baroque art
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts from the early 17th century until the 1750s, The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep color, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe -
Apollo and Daphne, by Bernini
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture
After a lengthy pursuit, Apollo thinks he has finally caught Daphne. He has a hand on what he thinks is her hip, but her flesh is already turning into the bark of a tree -
Saint Peter's square project by Bernini
St. Peter’s Square is the symbol of the Vatican City, it was built by Bernini between 1656 and 1667 under Pope Alexander VII.It is composed of two parts: a first trapezoidal space, delimited by two closed and converging straight arms that flank the churchyard, and a second elliptical-shaped space, between the two hemicycles -
The spinners,by Velazquez
The Fable of Arachne, popularly known as The Spinners, is a canvas by Diego Velázquez, preserved in the Museo Nacional del Prado. This work is one of the greatest examples of Spanish Baroque painting and is considered one of the great examples of Velázquez's mastery.
Stylistic elements, such as the lightness, the economical use of paint, and the clear influence of the Italian Baroque, have led most scholars to assert that it was painted in 1657-58 -
Period: to
Neoclassical art
Neoclassicism was born in Rome largely thanks to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann.
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Oath of the Horatii,by Jacques-Louis David
It is one of the best known paintings in neoclassicism.
The painting is about the legend of the same name ,of two men of different families that are required to fight one women of one family is married with the family of the rival and vice versa -
Carlos IV of Spain and his family, by Francisco de Goya
Is an oil-on-canvas group portrait painting, this painting is exposed in El Museo del Prado. It is a group painting of Carlos IV and his family where is the most imporant person of the painting as he is the monarch Carlos IV is the person at the right of the little kid dressed in red