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Empire of Genghis Khan – Division of territories
Emperor Genghis Khan died on a day in August 1227. His body was escorted by a thousand knights and brought back to his homeland, buried on…
On August 15, 2021 • By Anfalidrissi
Tartars and Genghis-Khan
In 1241 a mighty army from the steppes of central Asia invaded Poland and Hungary, overwhelming all resistance. The following year another horde of warriors invaded…
Carthusians and Cistercians
The aspiration to a dimension of religious life made up of prayer and contemplation, in opposition to the Cluniac model, gave birth to the desire for…
Rococo art style
The first period opens with a social inequality: wealth is in the hands of a few (large monarchies with palaces).Despite this, the crisis is overcome with…
Rococo was born in France at the court of Louis XV, Palace of Versailles, then France became the capital of art. Characteristics: refined, elegant and bright.…
Gustave Flaubert – Life and Thought
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen into a bourgeois family and he spent his adolescence reading the works chosen by the romantic generation, from Cervantes to…
Realism develops in the second half of the 19th century.The novels of Realism are also called "bourgeois" because the protagonists are no longer heroes, but ordinary…
On August 9, 2021 • By Anfalidrissi
Art Nouveau ed Horte
In France and Belgium the term with which the modernist movement is indicated is that of Art Nouveau, to indicate precisely a new art, rich in…
Art nouveau was born in the last decades of the 19th century and in the years preceding the First World War, this current develops in a…