18th century thinkers.

Diderot. The importance of reason. One of the editors of the Encyclopaedia.

Marquis of Condorcet. Faith in progress.

Holbach. Criticism of the Ancient Regime.

Voltaire. Criticism of the absolutism.

Montesquieu. The division of powers.

Rousseau. Sovereignty lies on the  people.

Quesnay. Physiocracy.

Adam Smith. Economic liberalism.

John Locke. Liberalism.

The Industrial Revolution

Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Newcomen´s first steam engine.

Thomas Newcomen´s first steam engine.

James Watt

James Watt´s steam engine.

Steam-powered locomotive.

Steamboat.

Steamboat.

George Stephenson.

Stephenson´s rocket.

Stephenson´s rocket.

John Kay.

Shuttle.

Flying shuttle.

James Heargraves.

Heargraves Spinning Jenny.

The French Revolution in 23 Minutes

French Revolution

Napoleon crowning Josephine (By Jacques-Louis David)

Napoleon crowning Josephine

Oath in the "Ball Game Hall".

The Ball Game Hall (Nowadays)

Estates General

The guillotine

Execution

Robespierre

Danton

Marat

Marat (By Jacques - Louis David)

"Freedom leading the people" (by Delacroix)

 

Sans-culotte

 

Napoleon Bonaparte

Neoclassical Painting.

Jacques Louis David. Self-portrait.

The oath of the Horatii.

The lictors carry Brutus his son´s corpse.

The Oath at the "Ball Game".

Death of Marat.

The rape of the sabine women.

Anton Raphael Mengs. Self-portrait.

The flagellation of Christ.

Trajan´s apotheosis. Royal Palace. Madrid.

Neoclassical Sculpture

Antonio Canova.

Psyche revived by the kiss of Love.

The three graces.

Venus victorious. Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte.

Apollo crowing himself.

Orpheus

Portrait of Pius VII

La Cibeles fountain. Designed by Ventura Rodríguez. 

Monument to the Defence of Zaragoza. Prado Museum. José Álvarez Cubero. (Madrid)