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
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).
Spanish Golden Age
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The Spanish Golden Age was a period of intense artistic, literary, and intellectual flourishing in Spain that broadly coincided with the political rise of the Spanish monarchy under the Catholic Monar
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
…17 January 1600 – 25 May 1681) 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 dramas he wrote for the theatre. Calderón has been termed "the Spanish Shakespeare", the national poet of Spain, and one…
Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Built between 1563 and 1584 by order of King Philip II, it is the largest Renaissance building in the world.
The Defence of Cádiz Against the English oil on canvas by Francisco de Zurbarán
Toledo by El Greco
Las Meninas (1656, English: The Maids of Honour) by Diego Velázquez