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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2009 at 01:53
You may find of interest to know that XVIIth century Spain was a great place for culture. It's a century which starts early with Cervantes' works of maturity, but it also helds the works of Baltasar Gracian and Quevedo (in prose), Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca (in theatre) or Gongora (in poetry).

Painting is one of the things Spain excelled in during the XVIIth century. I find Velasquez to be one of the greatest painters of all time. But there's also the late El Greco, Zurbaran, Murillo, Ribera, etc. Also in the field of architecture there were great achievements; one only needs to look at the Granada Cathedral by Alonso Cano or at the Santiago de Compostella cathedral to figure it out.

All these aspects (and other more) were part of the Baroque culture which gave the Spanish art & culture of the XVIIth century a very homogenous and distinct style which makes it unique and justifies up to this day it's calling as a "golden era".

Later edit: Oh, and do check out Spanish baroque music!


Edited by Swan Song - February 17 2009 at 01:56
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2009 at 11:49
Just wanted to let you know guys, that I passed!! Yes, today! Only me and one friend passed out of 10, in History I knew quite a lot, but Geography it was pure luck! Hahaha!

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