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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.
2 giorni fa · John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke ( / lɒk /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ".
3 giorni 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 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...
6 giorni fa · James I (born June 19, 1566, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland—died March 27, 1625, Theobalds, Hertfordshire, England) was the king of Scotland (as James VI) from 1567 to 1625 and first Stuart king of England from 1603 to 1625, who styled himself “king of Great Britain.”. James was a strong advocate of royal absolutism, and his ...
- James I was king of Scotland (as James VI) before he became king of both England and Scotland. He acceded to the English throne upon the death of t...
- James I was not a popular king. Although he had ruled as king of Scotland, he was unprepared for the challenges he faced upon assuming the English...
- King James I’s “favourites” were his closest courtiers and confidantes. They wielded a huge amount of influence in James’s court, which earned them...
- James had been tutored by Presbyterians and publicly professed his support for Puritanism while sitting on the Scottish throne, but English Catholi...
- King James I did not write the King James Bible (also called the King James Version or the Authorized Version). He did commission it, however. Jame...
25 mag 2024 · This page titled 4: The Early 17th Century is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Anonymous. Back to top 3.10: Twelfth Night
4 giorni fa · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 30, 2024 • Article History. Blaise Pascal. Born: June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Died: August 19, 1662, Paris (aged 39) Inventions: Pascaline. Notable Works: “Essai pour les coniques” “Les Provinciales” “Pensées” “The Physical Treatises of Pascal” “Traité du triangle arithmétique”
