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2 giorni fa · The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [a] Paleolithic. The dates listed in this section refer to the earliest evidence of an invention found and dated by archaeologists (or in a few cases, suggested by indirect evidence).
1 giorno fa · The 17th century was a tumultuous period in Italian history, marked by deep political and social changes. These included the increase of Papal power in the peninsula and the influence of the Catholic Church at the peak of the Counter Reformation , the Catholic reaction against the Protestant Reformation .
4 giorni fa · Generally, the history of Greece is divided into the following periods: Paleolithic Greece, starting c. 3.3 million years ago and ending in 20000 BC.
9 mag 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 9, 2024 • Article History. Roman Forum. Date: 753 BCE - c. 500. Major Events: Punic Wars. Battle of Pharsalus. Battle of Zama. Battle of Alesia. Battle of Cannae. Key People: Julius Caesar. Augustus. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Pompey the Great. Diocletian. Related Topics: Roman law.
6 mag 2024 · Baroque art and architecture, the visual arts and construction in Western art that roughly coincide with the 17th century. Though stylistically complex, even contradictory, the qualities frequently associated with the Baroque are grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, vitality, movement, tension, and emotional exuberance.
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- The term Baroque probably derived from the Italian word barocco, which philosophers used during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schemati...
- The work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically complex and even contradictory. Currents of naturalism and Classicism, for example,...
- Three broad tendencies had an impact on Baroque art, the first of which was the Counter-Reformation. Contending with the spread of the Protestant R...
- Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio were the two Italian painters who helped usher in the Baroque and whose styles represent, respectively, the classi...
- The Rococo style originated in Paris about 1700 and was soon adopted throughout France and later in other countries, principally Germany and Austri...
29 apr 2024 · Introduction to Water Clocks in Ancient Greece. Around 325 BC, water clocks began to be used by the Greeks, who called this device the clepsydra (‘water thief’). One of the uses of the water clock in Greece, especially in Athens, was for the timing of speeches in law courts.
2 giorni fa · Bibliography. The High Court of Chivalry in the early seventeenth century. Between 1634 and its temporary abolition by the Long Parliament in 1640 the Court of Chivalry was established on a regular basis for the first time in its history. Evidence survives for 738 of well over a thousand cases that the court processed during this period.
