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The dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy, known as Brunelleschi’s dome, is a masterpiece of Renaissance engineering. It was designed and built by Filippo Brunelleschi between 1420 and 1436. When it was designed, it was the largest dome in the world. -
This article deals with the theme of The Piety in art, for the work of Michelangelo, see Vatican Piety. It is known by the Italian name of Pietà [pjeˈta] (‘Piety’) to a very popular theme within the figurative arts, especially during the Renaissance. It is known by the name of pietà or piety. -
“The School of Athens” (in Italian: Scuola di Atene) is one of the most outstanding paintings of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael Sanzio. It was sketched between 1509 and 1510 and painted between 1510 and 1512 as part of a commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are today known as the Raphael Rooms, located in the Apostolic Palace of Vatican City. -
Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire (Ghent, County of Flanders, February 24, 1500-Cuacos de Yuste, September 21, 1558), called "the Caesar", reigned together with his mother, Juana I of Castile—the latter only nominally and until 1556.
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Renacimiento es el nombre dado en el siglo xix a un amplio movimiento cultural que se produjo en Europa Occidental durante los siglos xv y xvi.1 Fue un periodo de transición entre la Edad Media y los inicios de la Edad Moderna. Sus principales exponentes se hallan en el campo de las artes, aunque también se produjo una renovación en las ciencias, tanto naturales como humanas.
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The Revolt of the Comuneros (Spanish: Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla, "War of the Communities of Castile") was an uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles I and his administration between 1520 and 1521.
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The Peace of Augsburg, also called the Augsburg Settlement,[1] was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on 25 September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg. It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christianity permanent within the Holy Roman Empire, allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as the official confession of their state. -
Philip II, (born May 21, 1527, Valladolid, Spain—died September 13, 1598, El Escorial), king of the Spaniards (1556–98) and king of the Portuguese (as Philip I, 1580–98), champion of the Roman Catholic Counter
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Rebellion of 1568–71 (War of the Alpujarras) First phase. The Spanish campaign was led by the Marqués de Mondéjar in the west of the Alpujarra and the Marqués de Los... Second phase.
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he Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.
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The Union of Arras was an international agreement signed on January 5, 1579, in the city of Arras, by which some provinces in the south of the Netherlands recognized the sovereignty of Philip II in the context of the Eighty Years’ War. -
The Union of Utrecht was a treaty signed on 23 January 1579 in Utrecht, Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under the control of Habsburg Spain. -
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, France. 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. -
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was executed between 1622 and 1625. It is regarded as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque age. The statue is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, along with several other examples of the artist's most important early works. -
St. Peter’s Square, also known as Piazza San Pietro, is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Rome. The square was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667 under the direction of Pope Alexander VII. Bernini’s design included the massive Doric colonnades, four columns deep, which embrace visitors in “the maternal arms of Mother Church” . -
"The Three Spinners" (also The Three Spinning Women; German: Die drei Spinnerinnen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 14). It is Aarne–Thompson type 501, which is widespread throughout Europe. -
The Baroque or Baroquism is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
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The neoclassical art movement began in the 1760s and reached its peak in the 1780s and 1790s. The movement continued until the 1840s and 1850s .
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The Oath of the Horatii is a painting by Jacques-Louis David that tells the story of two feuding cities, Rome and Alba. In the painting, the three Horatii brothers of Rome swear an oath before their father to fight to the death against their three cousins, the Curiatii of Alba Longa, in order to settle a dispute between the two cities with minimum bloodshed. -
“Carlos IV de rojo” is a portrait of Francisco de Goya made for the homonymous king. It is kept in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. The portrait corresponds to the typology of the monarch’s portraits that Goya painted after his accession to the throne.. The painting is called “Charles IV of Spain and His Family” and is a ceremonial portrait. It is also easy to read the irony of Goya in the painting. -
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