seventeenth-century
Baroque period timeframe
Seventeenth-century describes things from or characteristic of the 1600s: seventeenth-century architecture, a seventeenth-century manuscript.
The hyphenated form functions as an adjective before a noun.
Without the hyphen, it names the period itself: the seventeenth century saw the rise of modern science.
Ornate artistic period
- RembrandtSeventeenth-century Dutch painter
- VermeerBaroque Dutch painter
- CaravaggioRenaissance-era Italian painter
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
Dutch Golden Age · oil painting · portraiture · still life · Velazquez · Rubens · vanitas · altarpiece
Famous scientific surname
- GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy
- DescartesCogito ergo sum's author
- LeibnizBaroque-era polymath philosopher-mathematician
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
microscope · calculus · optics · gravity · heliocentrism · empiricism · rationalism · Kepler
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- MiltonBaroque English verse master
- metaphysical poetryVerse blending intellect and emotion
- Paradise LostEpic of humanity's expulsion
- Don QuixoteDelusional self-proclaimed knight-errant
Cervantes · Donne · Bunyan · Racine · kabuki · sonnet · epic · satire
Ornate artistic period
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- absolutismUnrestricted governmental authority
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
mercantilism · plague · monarchy · empire · revolution · Restoration · Jamestown · Pilgrims
Ornate artistic period
- harpsichordPlucked-string keyboard instrument
- PurcellDido's operatic creator
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- cantataVocal work with instruments
Monteverdi · oratorio · fugue · suite · sonata · chamber music · counterpoint · madrigal
Baroque
Ornate artistic period
- RembrandtSeventeenth-century Dutch painter
- VermeerBaroque Dutch painter
- CaravaggioRenaissance-era Italian painter
chiaroscuro · Dutch Golden Age · oil painting · portraiture · still life · Velazquez · Rubens · vanitas · altarpiece · patronage
Newton
Famous scientific surname
- GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy
- DescartesCogito ergo sum's author
- LeibnizBaroque-era polymath philosopher-mathematician
telescope · microscope · calculus · optics · gravity · heliocentrism · empiricism · rationalism · Kepler · Boyle
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- MiltonBaroque English verse master
- metaphysical poetryVerse blending intellect and emotion
- Paradise LostEpic of humanity's expulsion
Cervantes · Don Quixote · Donne · Bunyan · Racine · kabuki · sonnet · epic · satire · pamphlet
Baroque
Ornate artistic period
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- absolutismUnrestricted governmental authority
Reformation · mercantilism · plague · monarchy · empire · revolution · Restoration · Jamestown · Pilgrims · Cromwell
Baroque
Ornate artistic period
- harpsichordPlucked-string keyboard instrument
- PurcellDido's operatic creator
- operaTheatrical art combining song
Monteverdi · cantata · oratorio · fugue · suite · sonata · chamber music · counterpoint · madrigal · recitative
Baroque
Ornate artistic period
- VersaillesFrench royal palace complex
- colonnadeRow supporting a roof
- domeRounded vault forming roof
Taj Mahal · St Peters · Bernini · Wren · pilaster · pediment · grandeur · symmetry · palace · cathedral
seventeenth-centurytwentieth-century
Years 1901-2000
nineteenth-century · prehistoric · ancient · futuristic · primordial
seventeenth-centurymodern
Of recent times
contemporary · present-day · current · today's · cutting-edge
seventeenth-centurydigital age
Epoch of computerized life
space age · information age · atomic age · industrial · post-industrial
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