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4 de mar. de 2024 · The 18th-century Neoclassicists inherited this theory of “decorum” but, giving preference to a universal ideal, instead implemented it in restricted form—subdividing all action and expression into Classical repose, idealizing faces and bodies into Classical heroes, and transforming all costume, if any, into tight-fitting attire to avoid reference to ephemeral time.
19 de mar. de 2024 · A second wave of cultural productivity followed, in the middle decades of the 18th century, under the sponsorship of the empress Mentewwab (reigned 1730–69), a remarkable woman who ruled jointly with her son and grandson. However, ethnic, regional, and religious factionalism undermined the kingdom and led in 1769 to its collapse.
Hace 5 días · Lime was known as a substance for centuries, but only in the 18th century was its chemical nature recognised. Pott recognised terra calcarea (calcareous earth) as an individual "earth" in his treatise of 1739. Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, and Fourcroy suggested in 1787 that it was the oxide of an element.
Hace 3 días · The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States.
7 de mar. de 2024 · Romanticism is the attitude that characterized works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in the West from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. It emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the emotional, and the visionary.
Hace 5 días · 1604 – Jesuit missionary Abbè Jessè Flèchè arrives at Port Royal, Nova Scotia. 1605 – Roberto de Nobili goes to India [141] 1606 – Japanese shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu bans Christianity. 1607 – Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.
Hace 5 días · The history of anarchism is ambiguous, primarily due to the ambiguity of anarchism itself. Scholars find it hard to define or agree on what anarchism means, which makes outlining its history difficult. There is a range of views on anarchism and its history. Some feel anarchism is a distinct, well-defined 19th and 20th century movement while ...