Las Meninas, painted around 1656 by Diego Velazquez • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In 1656, Diego Vélasquez completed the gigantic canvas, 3.18 m high and 2.76 m wide, which we now know under the title Las Meninas . The painter probably began it in the fall of 1655, the correlation of shadows and light ent
The Battle of Horamshar was one of the biggest, most important, toughest and fiercest of the Iran-Iraq war. It is not by chance that Khoramsar received the nickname city of blood. By 1979 the Iranian city of Khoramsar had 220,000 prosperous residents. The city was the main port of the country. Af
The famous cathedral of Notre Dame has always been a privileged place, not only for the history of art and literature, but also for the occult spirit. Proof of this is its constant association with occult, metaphysical symbols and history (from Hugos rendering of Quasimodo and Eugene Sys Paris Myste
The Second Industrial Revolution was born with the scientific and technological progress that took place in England, France and the United States, around the second half of the 19th century. Summary of Key Features Between 1850 and 1950, the search for discoveries and inventions was long, which rep