- Panel painting: This was a new technique for painting on wooden panels, which allowed for more portability and flexibility than traditional fresco painting.
- Stained glass: This was a new form of decorative art that used colored glass pieces to create intricate patterns and images.
- Book illumination: This was the art of decorating manuscripts with elaborate illustrations and calligraphy.
Jacob Burckhardt devoted his entire life to the study of history. However, he considered himself a historian of culture and distanced himself from the positivist concept of historian that, after Leopold Von Ranke, spread, first to Germany and then to the rest of the world. Burckhardt was born in Ba
He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne into a military family:his father was an artillery officer. He also embraced a military career and joined Saint-Cyr, from which he graduated as a second lieutenant in 1930 with the colonial infantry as his choice. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1932. He distinguish
Coming from a wealthy family of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, she would have inherited as the only daughter of the office of member of the municipal council held by his father. According to tradition, aged 28 during the siege of Paris in 451, she convinced the inhabitants of the city not to abandon t
Third king of the so-called branch of Valois, Charles V is the son of John II the Good. He is the first heir to use the title dauphin, after his father acquired the province of Dauphiné. Charles must very early ensure the Regency of the kingdom after the capture of his father in Poitiers. In 1358, t