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1 giorno fa · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
4 giorni fa · Locke was an assiduous book collector and notetaker throughout his life. By his death in 1704, Locke had amassed a library of more than 3,000 books, a significant number in the seventeenth century.
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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.
6 mag 2024 · Baroque art and architecture, the visual arts and building design and construction produced during the era in the history of Western art that roughly coincides with the 17th century.
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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...
5 mag 2024 · The era known as the Age of Exploration, sometimes called the Age of Discovery, officially began in the early 15th century and lasted through the 17th century. The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge.
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16 mag 2024 · University of Cambridge. Citation: Sam Kennerley, review of Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, (review no. 2109) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2109. Date accessed: 16 May, 2024. Carlos Eire’s Reformations aims to provide a readership of ‘beginners and nonspecialists’ (p. xii) with an introduction to European history between 1450 and 1650.
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.
