17th century Inventions

1670 ‣ Dom Pérignon invents Champagne

The 17th century🎨 was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700.

It falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque🎨 cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.

Alda Merini / Leonora Carrington | Ci sono notti che non accadono mai..

Leonora Carrington🎨 ( British-born Mexican painter, 1917-2011) | Self-portrait with orthopedic brace, 1973

Ci sono notti

che non accadono mai

e tu le cerchi

muovendo le labbra.

Poi t’immagini seduto

al posto degli Dèi.

Pablo Neruda | If you forget me / Se tu mi dimentichi, 1952

Georg Pauli (1855-1935) Aftonrodd

I want you to know

one thing.

You know how this is:

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch

near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

Simon Glücklich (1863-1943)

Simon Glücklich was born in Bielitz, Germany (now Poland) in 1863.

Son of decorator painter Leo Glücklich, Simon Glücklich attended high school in Bielitz and then studied at the Vienna Art Academy from 1880-1890 and from 1885-1890 with the genre and landscape painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).

Pedro Salinas | I look for you! / Al di là della gente ti cerco!

Yes, behind other people

I look for you.

Not in your name if they say it,

not in your image if they paint it.

Behind, behind, beyond.

Francisco Ribera Gómez (Spanish painter, 1907-1996)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard | A Young Scholar, 1778

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter🎨 and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance and hedonism.

One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings.

Auguste Leroux | Figurative / Genre painter

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux (1871-1954) was a French painter and illustrator. His younger brother Georges Paul Leroux (1877-1957) was also a brilliant artist who won the Prix de Rome in painting in 1906 and was a member of the Académie des Beaux-arts.

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris on 14 April 1871, during the Commune.