Pintors. Premsa i notícies. History of Catalonia. The territory that now constitutes the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain was first settled during the Middle Palaeolithic. Like the rest of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, it was colonized by Ancient Greeks and Carthaginians and participated in the pre-Roman Iberian culture. As with the rest of Hispania, the area that is now Catalonia was part of the Roman Empire, it then came under Visigothic rule after collapse of the western part of the empire. In 718, the area was occupied by the Moors and became a part of Muslim ruled al-Andalus.
The Frankish Empire conquered the area from the Muslims, beginning with the conquest of Roussillon in 760 and ending with the conquest of Barcelona in 801, as part of the creation of a larger buffer zone of Christian counties known as the Marca Hispanica. The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469 laid the foundations for a unified Crown of Spain. In the years after the civil war life was difficult. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. CaixaForum. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Hoy se cumplen 400 años del fallecimiento de El Greco, acontecimiento que ha motivado la celebración este año de múltiples exposiciones e iniciativas para redescubrir la figura del maestro y volver disfrutar de su obra. Y uno de los evento...s más importantes de esta conmemoración es el Simposio Internacional que tendrá lugar en el Museo en el mes de mayo, organizado en colaboración con la Fundación El Greco 2014 y dirigido por el catedrático Fernando Marías.
Conservadores, investigadores y expertos de todo el mundo participarán en este encuentro de relevancia internacional para analizar y poner al día la figura y la obra del pintor. El plazo de inscripción está ya abierto para estudiantes y, a partir de mañana, para el público general. Todos los detalles en la web de EducaThyssen:Ver más. INICI | Museu Virtual de la Guerra de Successió (1702 - 1714) La Guerra de Successió espanyola va començar el 1702. Va ser un conflicte mundial. Dos models per al futur d’Europa estaven en pugna. D’una banda l’absolutisme de la monarquia dels Borbó que des de França i Espanya pretenia esdevenir universal. De l’altra, l’Europa comercial, industriosa i proto-democràtica representada per les potències marítimes i la benevolent monarquia d’Àustria respectuosa amb drets i constitucions.
La Pau d’Utrech va segellar el 1713 el que era una evidència: cap dels dos bàndols podia abastar la victòria. Portal de la Cultura. Librerías. Historic Landscape of Catalonia - Methodology | Landscape Observatory. The main reference for the methodology of the PaHisCat project is the methodology used in English Historical Landscape Characterisation, although it is not followed in detail. One of PaHisCat’s methodological peculiarities is that fact that it studies and dates plots (fields, orchards, scrublands, woodlands, pastures, urbanised and industrial areas), linear realities (paths, irrigation channels, boundaries) and point realities (country homes, towns, buildings, dig sites, etc.). Over the course of the centuries, the lines and points have been very important in organising plots and the entire landscape in some areas. In the past, components that are just a point on the map, like a church or a castle, for example, generated new landscapes in the surrounding area.
PaHisCat presents the changes visited upon the Catalan landscapes throughout recent decades and centuries, many of which are explained in the Mediaeval and Roman eras. London Landscape Observer: Catalonian/Catalunyan Historic Landscape Characterisation.