According to THENAILMYTHOLOGY, religious intolerance and political absolutism, if they had been endured in Italy, where Spanish domination was either long-standing or supported by an army always held in arms, applied in countries, such as the northern provinces of the Netherlands, which had welcomed Calvinism with great fervor and enjoyed secular privileges, they determined a… Read More »
On the other hand, while he accepted for his own reigns the decrees of the Council of Trent (12 July 1564), adhering to the political traditions of Ferdinand and Charles V, he kept the Church under the direct control of the State and indeed increased the power of the monarch. in ecclesiastical affairs.Moriscos of the… Read More »
Perhaps it will never be possible to reconstruct the drama experienced in the last years of his life by Charles V, whose energies seemed to slowly run out and who, gradually yielding his dominions to his brother and son Philip, stripped himself even before dying of his states. and withdrew from political life, which had… Read More »
But war seemed to make war ever more necessary; and the conflict overwhelmed the whole of Europe. France, although much smaller than the vast state of the Habsburgs, was by now a homogeneous and compact monarchy, with unique interests, with a robust financial and economic organization, while the dominions of Charles V were separated by… Read More »
In this way, thanks to the Catholic kings, Spain, which still largely lacked it, began to have a modern organization, gave itself a certain moral unity, began its own transformation into a great power. And this “national” policy, as it has rightly been said, continued Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, during the regency of Castile, of… Read More »
According to SHOEFRANTICS, the architecture continues in the neoclassical style during the first half of the century, then manages to break through, hesitating, behind the French fashions. In the second half of the century. XIX achieves some success an alleged nationalism that manifests itself in the use, not always fortunate, of colored tiles in the… Read More »
Art in the second half of the century. XVII. – Philip IV was succeeded by his son Charles II, who defended the royal collections, opposing the sending of Palatine paintings to the emperor who insisted on them. Carreño, a wonderful portraitist known as “the Spanish Van Dyck”, Francisco Ricci, an easy painter, Francisco de Herrera the… Read More »
Art under Philip III (1598-1621). – This is an era of transition for art: Escorial architectural forms continue to be in vogue, maintained by Gómez de Mora and others while those baroque freedoms that were to blossom during the following reign are incubating. If Schubert opens the history of the Spanish Baroque with the Escoriale, other… Read More »
Plateresque style. – For the notable reaction of the national genius against the introduction of foreign styles, and in moments of enormous vitality such as those of the reign of Charles V, an original art had to arise. Since the architectural forms of the Renaissance began to arrive, a style is being formed (which Bertaux… Read More »
At the end of the century. XV, and more and more intensely in the XVI, Italian art asserted itself with the work of its artists, with its influences, as well as in architecture as in sculpture and painting. If we ignore more curious than important particularities, we can say that the first building directly subject… Read More »