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The Renaissance was a cultural, artistic, and scientific movement that emerged in Italy in the late 14th century and spread throughout Europe until the 16th century. This period marked the transition between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age.The Renaissance was the result of the spread of the ideas of humanism, which determined a new conception of man and the world.In this new stage a new way of seeing the world and the human being was proposed, with new approaches in the fields of arts...
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Is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Florence in Florence, Italy. Commenced in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed by 1436 with a dome engineered by Filippo Brunellesch.The dome saved the cathedral's transept, which was too large a space for the Gothic techniques of the time, marking the beginning of the Renaissance in architecture and solving a problem that had caused ridicule.is the major cathedral visited in italy of turism.it measures 283cm. -
The Vatican Pietà or Pietà is a marble sculpture made by Michelangelo between 1498 and 1499.In the sculpture we can see a the Virgin Maria Taking his son Jesus die and the Virgin is crying because crucifixion.In this way, despite the difficult moment depicted, the Virgin Maria appears with a youthful, beautiful, and immaculate face, symbolizing Mary as an eternal virgin and mother. Jesus appears more mature than his mother, representing a common trait in human nature. -
it is a painting in the Vatican city. It was painted between 1509 and 1511.it was a congresion of mathematicians and philosophersThe School of Athens represents all the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity gathered together sharing their ideas and learning from each other.In the painting we can see Plato and Aristotle Socrates, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Heraclitus, Averroes, and Zarathustra,we can see others mathematicians or philosophers apart of these -
Carlos I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire, reigned with his mother Joanna, the latter only nominally and until 1555 in all the Hispanic kingdoms, states and lordships with the name of Carlos I from 1516 to 1556, thus uniting for the first time in a single person, effectively, the crowns of Castile and Aragon, including the Kingdom of Navarre.He expand in America and the hegemony of a Catholic Europe over France and the Ottoman Empire.
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The War of the Communities of Castile was the armed uprising of the so-called comuneros, which took place in the Crown of Castile from 1520 to 1521, that is, at the beginning of the reign of Charles I. The main cities were those in the interior of the Central Plateau, with Segovia, Toledo and Valladolid at the forefront of the uprising.The uprising occurred at a time of political instability for the Crown, which had been dragging on since the death of Isabella the Catholic in 1504.
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The Peace of Augsburg was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League,signed on September 25, 1555, that ended the religious conflict between Catholics and Lutherans in the Holy Roman EmpireThe Peace of Augsburg has been described as "the first step on the road toward a European system of sovereign statesThe Peace of Augsburg fundamentally changed the relationship between religion and state authority grating princes right -
The reign of Philip II (1556-1598) was a period of prosperity for the Spanish Empire, marked by the centralization of power in Madrid, territorial expansion, including the annexation of Portugal, and the invasion of the Spanish Empire,the defeat of la Armada Invencible vs England or the victory of Lepanto vs the ottoma.In 1588 he sent the later known as the Spanish Armada to invade Protestant England, with the strategic objective of overthrowing Elizabeth I and reestablishing Catholicism there,
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The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Tachtigjaarige Oorlog or Nederlandse Opstand... 1568 1648 was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, excessive taxation,After the initial stages, Felipe II of Spain, the sovereign of the Netherlands, deployed his armies and regained control over most of the rebel-held territories.
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The second rebellion of the Alpujarras 1568 1571 sometimes called the War of the Alpujarras or the Morisco Revolt, was triggered by Philip II of Spain and was the second Morisco revolt against the Castilian Crown in the mountainous Alpujarra region and on the Granada Altiplano region.By 1250, the Reconquest of Spain by the Catholic powers had left only the Emirate of Granada, in southern Spain.Granada city fell to the Catholic Monarchs Isabel I of Castile and Ferdinando II of Aragon
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The Union of Arras was an international agreement signed on 5 January 1579 in the city of Arras, by which some provinces in the southern Netherlands recognised the sovereignty of Felipe II in the context of the Eighty Years' War.They where in war because Netherlands want independence from Spain but Spain wont.It was an alliance between three areas in the Habsburg Netherlands: the County of Artois, the County of Hainaut, and the city of Douai to fight with Spain. -
The Treaty of Utrecht ended the War of the Spanish Succession and established a new order in Europe through several agreements. Philip V, King of Spain, changed the cession of Spanish territories to other powers, such as the loss of Gibraltar and Menorca to Great Britain,. In addition, some important political matters were regulated in areas such as defence, taxation and religion, which is why the treaty in question is also seen as a first version or precursor of a later constitution. -
The Spanish Armada was defeated by a combination of English naval tactics, the use of fire ships, and severe storms that battered the Spanish fleet as it retreated around Britain.The Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders. England’s attempts to repel this fleet involved the first naval battles to be fought entirely with heavy guns.The Armada sailed from Lisbon. -
Apollo and Daphne is a sculpture.the story of Apollo and daphne is:
Apollo was saying bad things about Cupido,Cupido in revenge shoot a arrow of gold to Apollo and a arrow of lead to Daphne. The gold one do to Apollo to fall in love with Daphne,but the lead one do to Daphne hate Apollo.Apollo was chasing Daphne and Daphne ask for help to his dad,and his dad turns into a laurel tree.The Galery of Borghese -
Gian Lorenzo Bernini's project for Saint Peter's Square, commissioned by Pope Alexander VII, is a masterpiece of Baroque architecture completed in 1667. It features a massive elliptical colonnade with 284 Doric columns in four rows, designed to symbolize the "motherly arms of the church" embracing the faithful.At the centre of the square stands the Vatican obelisk, surmounted by the saving cross of Christ. Originating from the circus of Caligula and Nero. -
The Spinners is a painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, in the Museo del Prado of Madrid, Spain.As one of the diplomatic representatives of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia in the negotiations for the signing of a peace treaty between Spain and the Netherlands, Rubens was called to Madrid, where he would remain from August 1628 to April 1629, by King Philip IV to inform himself about these negotiations.It is considered one of the great examples of Velázquez's mastery. -
The Baroque is a highly ornate and elaborate style of architecture, art and design that flourished in Europe in the 17th and first half of the 18th century. Originating in Italy, its influence quickly spread across Europe and it became the first visual style to have a significant worldwide impact.Art became more refined and ornate, with a certain classicist rationalism surviving, but adopting more dynamic and effective forms and a taste for the surprising and anecdotal, for optical illusions.
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Neoclassical art is a style that emerged in the mid-18th century as a reaction against the ornate Baroque and Rococo styles. It is characterized by its emphasis on simplicity, order, and clarity, drawing inspiration from the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.The Empire style, a second phase of Neoclassicism in architecture and the decorative arts, had its cultural centre in Paris in the Napoleonic era. Especially in architecture, but also in other fields,
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The Oath of the Horatii in French. The Oath of the Horatii is a work by Jacques-Louis David, completed in 1784, before the French Revolution. The painting measures 330 x 425 cm and is housed in the Louvre Museum. It is considered the paradigm of neoclassical painting.It depicts the Roman salute, with the arm extended and the palm facing downward.When he come back with the picture to show to Diderot he praise the picture and he put it in the Louvre and Diderot made he get married with her son -
The Family of Charles IV is a group portrait painted by Francisco de Goya. The work, which is in the Prado Museum, shows King Charles IV and his family.Goya reveals his mastery in every detail of the painting, both through the formal mastery of light and the subtle definition of personalities, accentuated by the reduction of spatial references.Because the queen wants they posed separete to prevent that all the family had to pose a lot of time together