The 17th century was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700, in the Gregorian calendar.
It falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.
The greatest military conflicts were the Thirty Years' War, the Great Turkish War, and the Dutch-Portuguese War.
It was during this period also that European colonization of the Americas began in earnest, including the exploitation of the silver deposits, which resulted in bouts of inflation as wealth was drawn into Europe.
• In the Islamic world, the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires grew in strength.
Especially in the Indian subcontinent, Mughal architecture, culture and art reached its zenith, while the empire itself is believed to have had the world's largest economy, bigger than the entirety of Western Europe and worth 25% of global GDP.
• In Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the century, beginning the Edo period; the isolationist Sakoku policy began in the 1630s and lasted until the 19th century.
• In China, the collapsing Ming dynasty was challenged by a series of conquests led by the Manchu warlord Nurhaci, which were consolidated by his son Hong Taiji and finally consummated by his grandson, the Shunzi Emperor, founder of the Qing dynasty.
• From the middle decades of the 17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde.
The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily kept under surveillance.
With domestic peace assured, Louis XIV caused the borders of France to be expanded.
•It was during this century that English monarch became a symbolic figurehead and Parliament was the dominant force in government – a contrast to most of Europe, in particular France.
• By the end of the century, Europeans and Indians were aware of logarithms, electricity, the telescope and microscope, calculus, universal gravitation, Newton's Laws of Motion, air pressure and calculating machines due to the work of the first scientists of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Pierre Fermat, Blaise Pascal, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It was also a period of development of culture in general (especially theater, music, visual arts and philosophy). | © Wikipedia
List of 17th century Artists and artistic movements definition
- Donato Creti | Astronomical Observations, 1711
- Mattia Preti | Baroque Era painter
- Johannes Vermeer | Baroque Era painter
- Johannes Vermeer | The Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
- Adam de Coster | Baroque / Genre painter
- Gerrit van Honthorst | Baroque Era painter
- Baroque art | History and Sitemap
- Sir Peter Paul Rubens | Baroque Era painter
- Giacomo Ceruti | Baroque / Genre / Portrait painter
- Guercino (1591-1666) Baroque Era painter
- Saint Cecilia: Patroness of Musicians
- Hendrick Goltzius | Mannerist painter
- Bartholomaeus Spranger | Mannerist painter
- Artemisia Gentileschi | Baroque Era painter
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta | Rococo Era painter
- William Shakespeare / Maria Amaral | Il mio occhio si è fatto pittore / Mine eye hath played the painter
- Orazio Gentileschi | Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, 1620-1626
- Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter
- Orazio Gentileschi | Baroque painter
- Artemisia Gentileschi | Mary Magdalene as Melancholy, 1622-1625
- Giovanna Garzoni | Baroque painter
- Johannes Vermeer | The Milkmaid /La Lattaia, c. 1657-1658
- Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter
- Guido Reni (1575-1642) | Baroque Era painter
- Guido Reni | Baroque Era painter
- Onorio Marinari (1627-1715) | Sant’Agnese
- Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) | Baroque Era painter
- Pieter de Hooch | Baroque Era painter
- Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter | Part ²
- Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter
- Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter | Part ²
- Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter
- Rembrandt | Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630
- Simon Vouet | Baroque Era painter
- Georges de la Tour | Baroque Era painter
- Jan Steen | Baroque Era painter
- Nicolas Poussin | Baroque Era painter
- Aelbert Cuyp | Baroque Era painter
- Francisco De Zurbarán | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
- Francisco De Zurbarán | Baroque Era painter
- Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
- Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter
- Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
- José de Ribera | Baroque Era painter
- Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter ⁽³⁾
- Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
- Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter
- Bernardo Strozzi | Music players in the Baroque era
- Bernardo Strozzi | Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi
- Bernardo Strozzi | Baroque painter
- Adam de Coster | A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle
- Pietro Paolini | Baroque painter
- Elisabetta Sirani | Baroque painter
- Michael Sweerts | Boy in a Turban Holding a Nosegay (1658-1661)
- Francesco Hayez / Shakespeare | The Kiss, 1859 | Art in Detail
- Gerard ter Borch | Baroque Era painter
- Valentin De Boulogne | Baroque painter
- Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Hands | Art in Detail
- Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Portraits | Art in Detail
- Valentin de Boulogne | The Crowning with Thorns, 1620 | Art in Detail
- Caravaggio | The crowning with thorns, 1607 | Art in Detail
- Vermeer | A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, c. 1670-1672 | Art in Detail
- Shakespeare | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day.. / Dovrei paragonarti a un giorno d'estate..
- Vermeer | Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter, 1667 | Art in Detail
- 17th century Artists | Sitemap
- Aert van der Neer | Dutch Baroque Era painter
- Rembrandt | The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1668 | Art in Detail
- Rembrandt | Self-Portrait, 1658 | Art in Detail
- Rembrandt | Portrait of an Old Man, 1645 | Art in Detail
- Rembrandt | Susanna and the Elders, 1647 | Art in Detail
- Gerrit Dou | Baroque Era painter
- Johannes Vermeer | The Allegory of Painting, 1666 | Art in Detail
- Cristoforo Stati | Orpheus with Violin, 1600-1601 | Art in Detail
- Rembrandt | Venus and Cupid, 1640-1660 | Art in Detail
- Rembrandt | Saul and David, 1655-1660 | Art in Detail
- Rembrandt | Danaë, 1636 | Art in Detail
- Rembrandt | Adoration of the Magi, 1632 | Art in Detail
- Bartholomeus Spranger | Mannerist painter
- Jacob Ferdinand Saeys | Architectural Fantasies painter
- Cornelis Van Poelenburgh | Dutch Golden Age Landscape painter
- Gennaro Greco | Imaginary Architecture /Landscape painter
- Dirck van Delen | Architecture Fantasy painter
- Aert de Gelder | Baroque Era painter | Rembrandt’s pupil
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Painting and Drawing | Baroque Era style
- Diego Velázquez | Baroque Era painter
- Rembrandt | The Jewish Bride /La sposa ebrea, 1667
- El Greco | Mannerist painter | Detail painting
- William Shakespeare | Sonnets, 1609
- William Shakespeare ~ I Sonetti, 1609
- Rembrandt | Musical Company, 1626
- Rubens and Brueghel ~ The Five Senses Allegory | Art workshops
- Cornelis de Vos | Mother and child, 1624
- Salvator Rosa | Allegory of Fortune, 1659
- Salvator Rosa | Baroque Era painter
- Archduke Leopold Wilhelm | Patron of the Arts
- Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Quotes /Aforismi
- Carlo Dolci | Baroque Era painter
- Cornelis de Vos | Children portrait, c. 1600
- Francesco Lavagna ~ La natura morta Napoletana del settecento
- La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi /The fountain of the four rivers, 1651
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
- William Shakespeare ~ Aforismi...
- Giulietta Capuleti ~ Il balcone a Verona
- Shakespeare & Yves Pires ~ Tu sei per la mia mente, come cibo per la vita...
- Rembrandt | Oggi il compleanno ~ 407 anni della nascita
- Francesco Furini ~ Baroque Era painter
- Willem Haenraets and William Shakespeare | Romantic Rhythm
- Sir Anthony Van Dyck | Baroque Era painter
- La Fontana di Trevi ~ Roma Barocca e Rococò
- Caravaggio | The Fortune teller, 1630
- El Greco | Mannerist painter
- Rembrandt van Rijn | Baroque painter
- Frans Hals | Dutch Golden Age painter
- Rembrandt ~ Self-portraits
- Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Art in Detail
- Sleeping Hermaphroditos / Ermafrodito dormiente | Ancient Art
- La cattedrale di Orleans
- La Reggia di Versailles
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Baroque Era sculptor
- Rembrandt van Rijn | Baroque painter | Portraits
- Stefano Maderno | Baroque era style sculptor
Il 17 ° secolo fu il secolo che durò dal 1 gennaio 1601-31 dicembre 1700, nel calendario gregoriano.
• Cade nell'età moderna dell'Europa caratterizzata dal movimento culturale barocco, l'ultima parte dell'età dell'oro spagnola, l'età dell'oro olandese, il Grand Siècle francese dominato da Luigi XIV, la rivoluzione scientifica, e secondo alcuni storici, la crisi generale.
• I più grandi conflitti militari furono la Guerra dei Trent'anni, la Grande Guerra Turca e la Guerra Olandese-Portoghese.
Fu durante questo periodo anche che la colonizzazione europea delle Americhe iniziò sul serio, compreso lo sfruttamento dei giacimenti d'argento, che portò a periodi di inflazione mentre la ricchezza veniva attratta in Europa.
• Nel mondo islamico, gli imperi ottomano, safavide e moghul si sono rafforzati. Soprattutto nel subcontinente indiano, l'architettura, la cultura e l'arte di Mughal raggiunsero il loro apice, mentre si crede che l'impero abbia avuto la più grande economia del mondo, più grande di tutta l'Europa occidentale e vale il 25% del PIL mondiale.
• In Giappone, Tokugawa Ieyasu fondò lo shogunato Tokugawa all'inizio del secolo, iniziando il periodo Edo; la politica isolazionista di Sakoku iniziò negli anni Trenta del secolo scorso e durò fino al XIX secolo.
• In Cina, la dinastia Ming è stata sfidata da una serie di conquiste condotte dal nobile della guerra Manchu Nurhaci, consolidate dal figlio Hong Taiji e infine consumate da suo nipote, l'imperatore Shunzi, fondatore della dinastia Qing.
• A partire dai decenni centrali del XVII secolo, la politica europea fu sempre più dominata dal Regno di Francia di Luigi XIV, dove il potere reale fu solidificato a livello nazionale nella guerra civile della Fronda.
La nobiltà francese territoriale semi-feudale fu indebolita e soggiogata al potere di una monarchia assoluta attraverso la reinvenzione della Reggia di Versailles da una casetta di caccia ad una prigione dorata, in cui una corte reale molto ampliata poteva essere più facilmente tenuta sotto sorveglianza. Con la pace domestica assicurata, Luigi XIV fece espandere i confini della Francia.
• Fu durante questo secolo che il monarca inglese divenne un prestanome simbolico e il Parlamento fu la forza dominante nel governo - un contrasto con la maggior parte dell'Europa, in particolare la Francia.
Alla fine del secolo, europei ed indiani erano a conoscenza dei logaritmi, dell'elettricità, del telescopio e del microscopio, del calcolo, della gravitazione universale, delle leggi del moto di Newton, della pressione dell'aria e delle macchine calcolatrici a causa del lavoro dei primi scienziati della rivoluzione scientifica, tra cui Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Pierre Fermat, Blaise Pascal, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton e Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Fu anche un periodo di sviluppo della cultura in generale (in particolare teatro, musica, arti visive e filosofia).
Peter Paul Rubens | Baroque Era painter