MODERN AGE

MODERN AGE STARTED IN 1492 WITH THE ARRIVAL OF COLUMBUS TO AMERICA

AND FINISHED IN 1789 WITH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

MANY CHANGES :NEW TERRITORIES

ABSOLUTE MONARCHS

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGESS

POPULATION GROWTH

NEW SOCIAL CLASS: BURGUESSES

MODERN AGE IN EUROPEXVI CENTURY: LONG VOYAGES

XVII CENTURY: THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHS

XVIII CENTURY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT

XVI CENTURY

.- AFTER AMERICA WAS DISCOVERED, THE LONG VOYAGES OPENED NEW TRADING ROUTES AND ALSO GAVE PEOPLE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR WORLD.

.- SPAIN WAS THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY , THANKS TO THE GOLD AND SILVER THAT CAME FROM AMERICA

.- A NEW ART STYLE DEVELOPED: THE RENAISSANCE

XVII CENTURY.- KINGS BECAME MORE AND MORE POWERFUL. THEY CONTROLLED ALL ASPESCTS OF

GOVERNMENT. THEY WERE ABSOLUTE MONARCHS

.- A NEW ART STYLE DEVELOPED : THE BAROQUE

.- FRANCE BECAME THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY

XVIII CENTURY

NEW POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MOVEMENT. THE ENLIGHTENMENT

ENLIGHTENMENT PROMOTED:.- Equality under law..- Freedom of thought.- Learning.- Science and technological advances..- Democracy…

MODERN AGE IN SPAINXVI CENTURY: THE SPANISH EMPIRE

CHARLES I PHILIP II

THE TERRITORY OF PHILIP II WAS SO VAST THAT IT

WAS SAID THAT “THE SUN NEVER SET ON HIS EMPIRE”

THE XVI CENTURY IS ALSO KNOWN AS:

THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE

DON MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA WROTE DON QUIXOTE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS IN HISTORY.

OTHER IMPORTANT WRITEROF THIS PERIOD WAS LOPE DE VEGA.

RENAISSANCE

Doménikos Theotokópoulos, en griego Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος became famous for his characteristic elongated figures.

El entierro del Conde Orgaz

El caballero de la mano en el pecho La Santa Trinidad

XVII CENTURY: THE SPANISH DECLINE

THREE HABSBURG KINGS REIGNED

PHILIP IIIPHILIP IV

CHARLES II

SPAIN WAS NO LONGER THE MOST POWERFUL EUROPEAN NATION

Traten otros del gobiernodel mundo y sus monarquías,mientras gobiernan mis díasmantequillas y pan tierno,y las mañanas de inviernonaranjada y aguardiente,y ríase la gente…..

Érase un hombre a una nariz pegado,érase una nariz superlativa,érase una nariz sayón y escriba,érase un pez espada muy barbado.Era un reloj de sol mal encarado,…..

LITERATURE

GÓNGORA

QUEVEDO

BAROQUE

PAINTING

VELAZQUEZ

MURILLO

ZURBARÁN

XVIII CENTURY: ENLIGHTENMENT

.- SPANISH WAR OF SUCCESSION

.- NEW DINASTY: BOURBON

PHILIP V

CHARLES III

NEOCLASSICISMSIMPLICITY AND USEFULNESS

GOYA

1789 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

END OF MODERN AGEAND BEGINNING OF CONTEMPORARY AGE