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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte -> islet on the Seine where the aristocrats all dressed in the latest fashion spent their daysThis work…
Pointillism is a pictorial movement or artistic current that developed in France around 1885, in fact it is also known by the French term Pointillisme. The…
Paul Valery is a French Valery poet who lived in the period between the two world wars.Paul Valery was born in Sète in 1871. Paul Valéry…
Symbolism is a movement that developed in France during the nineteenth century and then spread throughout the European continent, taking place in the literary, artistic and…