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El Siglo de Oro aka Spanish Golden Age is a Baroque artistic movement between 1492 and 1695.
A rich movement in a turbulent period of Spain (Age of Discoveries, Iberian Union, war against Portugal, broke up of Iberian Union, war against Netherlands and United Kingdom, Piracy and Mediterranean Corsairs, witch hunts by Inquisition, etc) which revealed Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lope de Vega and others.
The characteristics of this movement are: picaresque and grotesque writing, absurdism, satirism, fatalism, humanization of Religious art, criticism of piety and religiousness, etc.
Key names:
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra;
- Lope de Vega;
- Luís de Góngora;
- Francisco de Quevedo;
- the anonymous author of the novel Lazarillo de Tormes;
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
There are two famous Brazilian (Portuguese) writers would be classified as members of Siglo de Oro: Gregório de Matos and Tomás Pinto Brandão.
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A rich movement in a turbulent period of Spain (Age of Discoveries, Iberian Union, war against Portugal, broke up of Iberian Union, war against Netherlands and United Kingdom, Piracy and Mediterranean Corsairs, witch hunts by Inquisition, etc) which revealed Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lope de Vega and others.
The characteristics of this movement are: picaresque and grotesque writing, absurdism, satirism, fatalism, humanization of Religious art, criticism of piety and religiousness, etc.
Key names:
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra;
- Lope de Vega;
- Luís de Góngora;
- Francisco de Quevedo;
- the anonymous author of the novel Lazarillo de Tormes;
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
There are two famous Brazilian (Portuguese) writers would be classified as members of Siglo de Oro: Gregório de Matos and Tomás Pinto Brandão.
Spanish Baroque literature - Wikipedia
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