Lope de Vega
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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is often conside
Portrait by Eugenio Caxés (c. 1627)
Lope's house in Madrid (1610–1635).
Sign at St Sebastian's Church, Madrid marking de Vega's burial
Lope de Vega dressed in cassock. (Madrid, 1902).
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for the many verse dr
Lope de Vega
…of Nature” (Monstruo de naturaleza). Lope de Vega renewed the literary life of Spanish theatre when it became mass culture, and with the playwrights Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina defined the characteristics of Spanish Baroque theatre with great insight into the human condition. The literary production of Lope…
Las Glorias Nacionales, 1852 "D. Pedro Calderón de la Barca"
Monument to Calderón on Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid (J. Figueras, 1878).
Calderón depicted on a 1928 25 Pesetas banknote.
Portrait of Vyacheslav Ivanov by Konstantin Somov (1906).