Spanish Enlightenment
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The Spanish Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual and cultural movement that was part of the broader Western Enlightenment.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, painted by Francisco Goya
Inquisition Scene by Francisco Goya. The Spanish Inquisition was still in force in the late eighteenth century. but much reduced in power.
The Prado Museum, Madrid
Age of Enlightenment
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The Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment, was a period of intellectual and cultural flourishing in Europe and Western civilization, emerging in the late 17
Spanish Enlightenment
…The Spanish Enlightenment (Spanish: la Ilustración española) was an 18th-century intellectual and cultural movement that was part of the broader Western Enlightenment. The ideas of the Enlightenment came to Spain with the new Bourbon dynasty, following the death of the last Habsburg monarch, Charles II, in 1700. The…
In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755. Reading of Voltaire's tragedy, The Orphan of China, in the salon of Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, by Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, c. 1812
English philosopher Francis Bacon's work is considered foundational to the Enlightenment
René Descartes, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science
German philosopher Immanuel Kant, one of the most influential figures of Enlightenment and modern philosophy