Siglo de Oro
Iberian artistic zenith
Siglo de Oro is Spanish for "Golden Age," referring to the period of flourishing Spanish arts and literature roughly spanning the 16th and 17th centuries.
This era produced celebrated writers like Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca, as well as painters like Velázquez and El Greco.
The term appears in discussions of Spanish literature, theater, and cultural history, typically untranslated in English contexts.
- El GrecoSpanish Renaissance painter
- HumanismMovement centering individual worth
- Renaissance idealsEarly modern cultural principles
- corralFenced livestock enclosure
- Spanish InquisitionChurch court hunting heretics
Cervantes · auto sacramental · Counter-Reformation · Council of Trent · Philip II of Spain · Don Quixote · Battle of Lepanto · Velázquez · comedia · Spanish Armada · Madrid · Sevilla · honor · verso · hidalgo · teatro · Habsburg · monastery
- Spanish HistoryReconquista, Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Empire, conquistadors, Catholic Monarchs
- Spanish LiteratureDon Quixote, Don Quijote, Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, El Cid
- Golden Age SpainCervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Philip II, Velazquez
- Spanish ErasSilver Age, medieval, colonial, contemporary, Civil War era
- Philip IIPhilip II, Spanish Armada, Armada, Battle of Lepanto, Alba