Showing posts with label golden age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label golden age. Show all posts

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Golden Age.

The Golden Age (χρυσή εποχή ) (chrysí epokhí) means the best time of humanity. Perhaps it was so in the past or it will be so in the future.

These words come from Ancient Greece. In Greek mythology there are five ages of humanity (χρύσεον γένος) (chrýseon génos): Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and Iron.

Also, other myths and legends have their own Golden Age.

Writers wrote books about it, and artists drew images.

Sometimes the Golden Age is called the dawn of civilization.

This is actually a utopia.



Friday, June 4, 2021

Great people: Jan Vermeer.

 Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter. He was born on October 31, 1632, in Delft. 

Vermeer’s works were of Baroque and Dutch Golden Age paintings.

His famous paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665), The Milkmaid (1658), The Art of Painting or The Allegory of Painting or Painter in his Studio (1666-1668), Mistress and Maid (1667).


Johannes Vermeer had a wife.


Jan Vermeer died on December 15, 1675, in Delft.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Great people: Rembrandt.

 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch artist. Also, he was interested in printmaking and drawing. He was born on July 15, 1606, in Leiden, Netherlands.

The artist influenced Baroque and Dutch Golden Age. His works were very important for these periods. 

Rembrandt created created many famous paintings. The Abduction of Europa (1632), The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Danaë (1636-1650), self-partraits, The Night Watch (1642), Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654), Hundred Guilder Print (1647-1649).

Rembrandt was married on Saskia van Uylenburgh since 1634 to 1642. They had children. 

The painter died on October 4, 1669, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.





Monday, October 29, 2018

Elizabethan era.

Elizabethan era was an important for history. Many different events happened during this period.

Queen Elizabeth I of England was coronated on January 15, 1559. Also, Elizabethan era was called a golden age. Because culture development during this era.

Big dresses and collars were very fashionable during this historian period.

Travellers found new lands in the world. England had conflicts with other countries, too. New things about religion appeared.

Elizabeth I died on March 24, 1603. Queen's nephew became king after her.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-vector/hand-drawn-vector-illustration-historically-famous-1056211961?src=bOMXVLWUnmdROkDIMHZoCQ-1-26

A hand drawn vector illustration of the historically famous Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-illustration/costumes-elizabethan-15651569-vintage-engraved-illustration-402205135?src=P44Z9mg7i_97XIhJys6mTg-1-1

Costumes Elizabethan (1565-1569), vintage engraved illustration. Colorful History of England, 1837.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-illustration/queen-elizabeth-15331603-england-15581603-252139750?src=scUWAPAE5xuHVWBtMcAdvA-3-16

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England, 1558-1603.