Gothic Art

Cathedral of Chartres (France)

Gothic Art style.
Another piece of information about Gothic Art style.
Full information about Gothic Art.

Duecento.
Trecento.


Architecture:
      Gothic architecture.
      Gothic architecture: style, characteristics and history.
      Another piece of information about Gothic architecture.

Sculpture:
      Gothic sculpture.
      Full information about Gothic sculpture.

Painting:
      Gothic painting.
      Gothic painting: style and characteristics.
      Another piece of information about Gothic painting.
      More information about Gothic painting.
   

Romanesque Art

Ste. Madeleine, Vézelay (France)

What is Romanesque Art?
A beginner's guide to Romanesque Art.
Romanesque Art: history, characteristics and style.


Architecture:
      What is Romanesque architecture?
      Romanesque architecture.
      Romanesque architecture: characteristics, examples and history.
      Another piece of information about Romanesque architecture.
      Full information about Romanesque Art.

Sculpture:
      The Romanesque Portal.
      Full information about Romanesque sculpture.

Painting:
      Romanesque painting and stained glass.
      Full information about Romanesque painting.
      Romanesque mural paintings.

Feudal society

Medieval society.
   Medieval society: the three orders.
   Another piece of information about society in the Middle Ages.
   People of the Middle Ages.


The Nobles:
      - Medieval Lords. Life of  Nobility. More information about lives of Nobles.
      - History of the medieval knight. Another piece of information about medieval knights.
      - Lords and knights.

The Clergy. Another piece of information about Clergy:
      - Secular clergy: Abbots, bishops, cardinals and Pope.
      - Regular clergy: Monks and nuns.

Common people: medieval jobs.
      - Medieval peasants. Another piece of information about peasants: Life of peasants.
            - Serfs. The life of a serf.
      - Medieval guilds.
      - Medieval merchant.
            - Women in trade.

Women and marriage. Another piece of information about medieval women.
More information related to women in the Middle Ages.
Middle Ages women.

Children in the Middle Ages.
Medieval children.

Marriage.


Activities:
     Multiple choice test: activity 1, activity 2, activity 3.
     Crossword: activity 1.
     Fill in the gaps: activity 1.

Industry

Industry: definition 1, definition 2 and definition 3.

Classification of industry.

Different types of Industries with examples.
Another piece of information about different types of industry.

Industrial location factors.

Energy in industry.

Agriculture or farming

Agriculture: definition 1, definition 2 and definition 3.
Farming: definition 1, definition 2 and definition 3.

Rural settlement patterns.


History of farming: video.

Factors of agriculture:
      - Physical factors: weather.
      Activity.

Crops and cropping systems: pdf.

Types of farming. Another piece of information about types of farming.
      Types of farm.

Intensive and extensive agriculture.

Types of agriculture.
Different types of agricultural activities.

Farming and the environment.

Rural settlements patterns.

Feudal system

System of Feudalism: video.

Feudalism.
Feudalism develops in Europe.
Feudal system. Another piece of information about the feudal system.
An explanation about the feudal system.
      Definition of "fief".
            Manor house.
            Manorialism.
            Common people.

Feudalism facts.

Activities:
      Multiple choice test: activity 1.

Cubism

Still Life Before an Open Window (1915), Juan Gris

Definition.
Art vocabulary definition: video.

Cubism. Another piece of information about Cubism.
More related to Cubism.
      Cubism Facts.
Cubism movement.


Biographies:

      Georges Braque: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Georges Braque works.

      Juan Gris: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Juan Gris, the complete works.

      Pablo Picasso: short biography, biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.
            Pablo Picasso - Birth: video.
            Picasso net.
            Picasso.com.
            The 10 Most Famous Pablo Picasso Artworks.

Spanish Democracy

Spanish Democracy.


Reconciling the irreconcilable: How did Franco's Spain become a democracy?

The Democracy: 1975-the present.
History of Spain (1975-present).

Spain profile. Timeline.

The Transition

Spain timeline.

Spanish transition to democracy.
More about Spain's Transition to Democracy.
The Post-Franco Era.
Spain's Post-Franco Emergence from Dictatorship to Democracy.


The Spanish Constitution: History, develpment & key.
The Spanish Constitution of 1978.
Another piece of information about Constitution of 1978.
      English version: pdf.

Expressionism

Lady in a Green Jacket (1913), August Macke.

Definition.

Expressionism. A brief information related to Expressionism.
      Expressionism Facts.
Another piece of information about Expressionism.
More about Expressionism.

German Expressionism chronology.


Biographies:
      Edvard Much: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Edvard Much paintings.

      Egon Schiele: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Egon Schiele, the complete works.

      August Macke: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            August Macke, the complete works.

      Wassily Kandinsky: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Wassily Kandinsky and his paintings.

Dictatorship in Spain (1939-1975)

The Franco Years.
Another piece of information about the Franco Regime.

For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Franco Regime and Contemporary Spain.

- Attitude of the United States with respect to the Franco regime in Spain following the Second World War: documents.
- Attitude of the United States with respecto to the Franco regime in Spain: documents.

Receding Triump: British Opposition to the Franco Regime, 1945-59.

Franco's biography. Another piece of information about Francisco Franco.
General Francisco Franco.

Art Nouveau

The Tree of Life (1905), Gustav Klimt.

Definition.
Art vocubulary definition: video.

Art Nouveau. period style.
Art movements: Art Nouveau.
      Art Nouveau Facts.
Another piece of information about the Art Nouveau.
More information related to Art Nouveau.
Art Nouveau Movement.

Antoni Gaudí: short biography, biography 1, biography 2.
      Works of Antoni Gaudí.

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

A definition about the Spanish Civil War: video.

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Another piece of information related to the Spanish Civil War.

More about the Spanish Civil War.
      Spanish Civil War breaks out. More information related to the outbreak of War.
      Foreign participation. More about international intervention.
      Nationalist victory.

The Spanish Civil War.

Post-Impressionism

Mont Sainte Victoire (1904), Paul Cézanne.

Definition.

Post-Impressionism.
Another information about Post-Impressionism.
More related to Post-Impressionism.


Biographies:

      Paul Cézanne: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Paul Cézanne's works.

      Paul Gauguin: short biography, biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.
            Gauguin, the complete works.

      Vincent van Gogh: short biography, biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.
            Vicent van Gogh's works.

Second Spanish Republic

A brief piece of information about the Second Spanish Republic: video.

Brief History of the Second Spanish Republic.

Another piece of information about the Second Republic.

Second Spanish Republic.


Biographies:

      Niceto Alcalá Zamora, president of Spain.
            Another biography related to Niceto Alcalá Zamora.

      Manuel Azaña y Díaz, president of Spain.
            Manuel Azaña Diaz Facts.

Impressionism

Impression, Sunrise (1872), C. Monet.

Impressionism.
      Art vocabulary definition: video.

What is Impressionism?

Impressionism. Another piece of information about Impressionism.


Biographies:

      Edgar Degas: short biography, biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.
            Edgar Degas, the complete works.

      Claude Monet: short biography, biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.
            Claude Monet, the complete works.

      Pierre-August Renoir: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Pierre-August Renoir, the complete works.

The Reconquista / The Reconquest (8th Century - 11th Century)

               

Reconquista (definition).
Another piece of information about the Reconquista.

The Reconquista of Spain.
The Reconquista or the Reconquest. Another piece of information about the Reconquista.
Reconquista and Islam in Spain.


El Cid and the Spanish Reconquista.
      El Cid, short biography.
      More information related to El Cid.
      The Genius of El Cid.

The Reign of Alfonso XIII

The Reign of Alfonso XIII: diagram and video.

The Restoration, 1902-1931: Alfonso XIII.

Alfonso XIII, king of Spain.

Alfonso XIII facts.

Biographies:
      Biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

The Restoration

The troubled monarchy, Restoration of the monarchy.

1875-1931, Bourbon Restoration.

The Reign of Alfonso XII.

      Biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.

Early Christian Kingdoms, 8th-10th Centuries

The Visigothic Kingdom.

The Cantabrian Mountains:
      Christian kingdom of Asturias & Galicia.
            Pelayo, king of Asturias.
      Early Christian Kingdoms. Asturias, León.
            Alfonso II (791-842), king of Asturias: biography 1 and biography 2.
      County of Castile:
            Fernán González of Castile: biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

The Pyrenean Zone:
      The Kingdom of Pamplona.
      Early Christian Kingdoms: Pamplona, Navarre.
            Kingdom of Navarre.
      From the County of Aragon to the Kingdom of Aragon.
      Spanish March. Catalan Counties.

1066

The Norman Conquest. AD 1066: comic.

The Norman Conquest. Another piece of information about the Norman Conquest of 1066.

      What happend at the Battle of Hastings?
            1066, The Battle of Hastings. Timeline.
            The Battle of Hastings.

The Bayeux Tapestry: video.
      - Animated: video.
      - History explaned: video.

History of the Bayeux Tapestry: video.


William the Conqueror: biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

The Six Revolutionary Years (1868-1874)

Glorious Revolution (1868):
      Glorious Revolution, Spain 1868.
      Dissension and crisis, Revolution of 1868.
      Spanish Revolution, 1868.
      Spanish Revolutions of the 19th Century.

Dissension and crisis.Growing inestability.
      Amadeus, king of Spain: biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

Dissension and crisis. The Republican Interlude.
      First Spanish Republic. Another piece of information about First Spanish Republic.