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Hace 3 días · Oliver Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army ...
Hace 1 día · In the 1650s, Rembrandt's style changed again. Colors became richer and brush strokes more pronounced. With these changes, Rembrandt distanced himself from earlier work and current fashion, which increasingly inclined toward fine, detailed works. His use of light becomes more jagged and harsh, and shine becomes almost nonexistent.
Hace 1 día · Rejecting arguments which have emphasized 'the alienation of Quakers from the worldly politics of the 1650s', Peters attempts to show how 'print served to transform accounts of local prosecution into an explicitly political context', asserting that it was their 'use of print which signalled and facilitated widespread participation in the struggle for religious toleration' (pp. 193, 194, 195).
Hace 1 día · 1960s. 1969 in art – Death of Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, first Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in painting. 1968 in art – Death of Marcel Duchamp, Kees van Dongen. Birth of Jules Trobaugh.
Hace 2 días · Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780719081613; 288pp.; Price: £60.00. The editors of this volume situate their collection of essays in a landscape in which the interregnum as a whole is neglected territory for historians, and the royalist experience of it an unexplored substratum.
Hace 5 días · Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe. London, Pickering and Chatto, 2012, ISBN: 9781848931985; 320pp.; Price: £60.00. The idea of an age of absolutism has lately fallen out of fashion, for several reasons. The word absolutism was coined only in the 19th century and the concept of a generic absolutist model can easily obscure ...
Hace 2 días · SP 18/9 f. 137 (1650) George Wood, commissary for the clothing of the soldiers in Ireland. SP 46/95 f. 284 (1650) George Shawe of Stayne Moore, Westmorland. SP 46/104 f. 279 (1650) Colonel George Crompton. SP 18/15 f. 26 (1651) The six gunners now acting service for the safety of the Tower of London.
