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4 days ago · Primary Source. Padrão. Annotation. In the 1480s, the Portuguese brought pillars (or padraos) with them in their explorations of western and southwestern Africa and placed them at prominent points, claiming these for Portugal. This is a replica of one of them, from what is now called Cape Cross, in Namibia.
2 days ago · The economic history of Portugal covers the development of the economy throughout the course of Portuguese history. It has its roots prior to nationality, when Roman occupation developed a thriving economy in Hispania, in the provinces of Lusitania and Gallaecia, as producers and exporters to the Roman Empire. This continued under the Visigoths ...
May 3, 2024 · Birth of Venus is one of the most famous paintings in the world. It was painted by Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, who was an Italian painter of the Florentine School that emerged in the early Renaissance period. After training as a goldsmith, he served an apprenticeship under Fra Filippo Lippi, the best Florentine ...
- Mary Cooch
1 day ago · The origins of the Palaiologos family are unclear. According to several later oral traditions, the family had originated in Italy, supposedly in the city of Viterbo. As per this version, the family name Palaiologos (Palaios logos, lit. "old word") was a Greek translation of vetus verbum, a dubious etymology of Viterbo.
- 11th century, 1259 (as imperial family)
3 days ago · 1480s paintings by Botticelli (11 C, 2 F) 1490s paintings by Sandro Botticelli (4 C, 2 F) 1500s paintings by Botticelli (2 C) Paintings by Sandro Botticelli by genre (4 C) Allegorical paintings by Sandro Botticelli (4 C, 6 F) Mythological paintings by Sandro Botticelli (9 C, 11 F) Portraits by Sandro Botticelli (2 C)
May 10, 2024 · In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries (about 1500–1800). In a European context, it is defined as the period following the Middle Ages and preceding the advent of modernity, sometimes defined as the "late modern period". In the context of global history, the early modern period is ...
5 days ago · The Cape was originally named the Cape of Storms in the 1480s by the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias. Where do the 2 oceans meet in Cape Town? Officially Cape Agulhas is the place where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet, and not the “two oceans” as believed at the Cape Point, near Cape Town (for publicity reasons).
