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1540s in music — The decade of the 1540s in music (years 1540 1549) involved some significant compositions. Events * none listed Publications 1541* Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola Canzone villanesche a3 , books 1 and 2.1542* Jacques Arcadelt First book of… … Wikipedia
1540s in England — Events from the 1540s in England.IncumbentsMonarch Henry VIII of England (to 28 January 1547), Edward VI of EnglandEvents* 1540 ** January Dunstable Priory closed down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. ** 6 January King Henry VIII… … Wikipedia
1540s — Events and trends*1541 Hernando de Soto is the first European to see the Mississippi River. * 1542 The first contact of Japan with the West (Portugal). * 1542 St. John of the Cross is born. * 1543 The invasion of Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al Ghazi is… … Wikipedia
1540s in architecture — TOC Events* 1546 Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter s Basilica.Buildings* 1542 Andrea Palladio completes his first commission at Villa Godi * 1544 King s College Chapel, Cambridge completedBirths* September 2 1548… … Wikipedia
Master of the 1540s — Portrait of a young woman by The Master of the 1540s, oil on oak panel, 1541, Art Gallery of New South Wales The Master of the 1540s was a South Netherlandish painter active between 1541 and 1551. About thi … Wikipedia
List of state leaders in 1540s BC — 1550s BC state leaders Events of 1540s BC 1530s BC state leaders State leaders by year Africa*Egypt **Nile region Fifteenth Dynasty (Hyskos) (1674 BC 1535 BC) **Upper Egypt Seventeenth Dynasty (1650 BC 1550 BC) **Eighteenth Dynasty Ahmose I (1550 … Wikipedia
Trial by combat — 1540s depiction of a 1409 judicial combat in Augsburg (Paulus Hector Mair, Munich cod. icon. 393) Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of… … Wikipedia
List of state leaders in 1530s BC — 1540s BC state leaders Events of 1530s BC 1520s BC state leaders State leaders by year Africa*Egypt **Nile region Fifteenth Dynasty (Hyskos) (1674 BC 1535 BC) **Eighteenth Dynasty Ahmose I (1550 BC 1525 BC)Asia*China Shang dynasty (1600 BC 1046… … Wikipedia
Allegory of Venus and Cupid — (1540s; London, National Gallery) Cosimo I de Medici commissioned this work from Bronzino to be given to King Francis I of France. As a work meant for an erudite audience, it features a complex iconographic program that is no longer completely … Dictionary of Renaissance art
1500-1550 in fashion — Fashion in the period 1500 1550 in Western Europe is marked the age of nudity by voluminous clothing worn in an abundance of layers (one reaction to the cooling temperatures of the Little Ice Age, especially in Northern Europe and the British… … Wikipedia
