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Means of transport in the 16th and 17th centuries

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000

Collaborative blog of IES Miguel Catalán to celebrate the IV Centenary of Miguel de Cervantes where different topics are explained. Among them, we have this short article about the different means of transport in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the beginning in the 16th century of the post office service linking the places where the Spanish Court resided with the main European urban centres, this post office service was extended to other Spanish cities. The conditions of the terrain and other conditioning factors such as the capacity of the horses would play an important role in the development of what we can call the first “taxis” in history.

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Louvre Museum. Dominique-Vivant Denon Center.

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:52 +0000

Dominique-Vivant Denon (1747-1825) was a draughtsman and art collector who is considered a precursor of museology and Egyptology. He was also the first director of the Louvre. The centre that bears his name offers resources on the history of the Louvre, its collections and art history in general. The documents are classified into monographs, sound documents and audiovisual documents.

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Correspondence of Eugène Delacroix

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:46 +0000

Access to the correspondence of the French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). The site also offers an exhaustive biography of the painter as well as a specific bibliography.

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