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The Restoration spectacular, or elaborately staged machine play, hit the London public stage in the late 17th-century Restoration period, enthralling audiences with action, music, dance, moveable scenery, baroque illusionistic painting, gorgeous costumes, and special effects such as trapdoor tricks, "flying" actors, and fireworks. These shows ...
Gheeraerts was also the brother-in-law of Lucas de Heere's apprentice John de Critz the Elder, [13] who took the dynasty into the Stuart period, and was succeeded as Serjeant-Painter by his son. De Heere was also a religious refugee from Flanders ; although the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation acted to reduce artistic contacts ...
Seal of Virginia following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660. Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters (known as Cavaliers) in the Royal Colony of Virginia at various times during the era of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration in the mid-17th century.
The Restoration and the England of Charles II (2014). Morrill, John. Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction (2005) excerpt and text search; 100pp; Morrill, John, ed. The Oxford illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain (1996) online, a wide-ranging standard scholarly survey. Mulligan, William, and Brendan Simms, eds.
Articles relating to The Restoration (1660 – 1714), of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned. The term Restoration is also used to describe the period of several years after, in which a new political settlement was established. [1]
17th century in England (65 C, 69 P) 1700s in England (17 C, 13 P) 1710s in England (13 C, 2 P) C. ... Stuart Restoration; Rye House Plot; S. Seven Bishops; Spanish ...
The Stuart period in London began with the reign of James VI and I in 1603 and ended with the death of Queen Anne in 1714. London grew massively in population during this period, from about 200,000 in 1600 to over 575,000 by 1700, and in physical size, sprawling outside its city walls to encompass previously outlying districts such as Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, and Westminster.
The most famous painter from the region in the late 17th and early 18th century is Antoine Watteau, whose hometown of Valenciennes had been annexed by France a decade before he was born. Otherwise, few painters from about 1700 until the end of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830 have been incorporated into the art historical discourse.