Portrait Of A Young Man, 18th Century - 18th Century - Oil On Wood, French School - Age Of Enlightenment

Portrait of a Young Man 18th - 18th - Oil on Wood French School - Age of Enlightenment dimensions excluding frame 7.5 cm x 10 cm excluding frame. In France, historians consider that it began in 1715 with the death of Louis XIV and ended in 1815 with the fall of Napoleon I and the Congress of Vienna. In the United Kingdom, historiography refers to the "long eighteenth century" from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to 1815. In the 18th century, the Enlightenment was a term that designated a cultural and philosophical movement that dominated Europe, and more particularly France. They gave by extension to this period the name of Age of Enlightenment (in Germany: Zeitalter der Aufklärung, in England and the United States: Age of Enlightenment) which led to the advent of democracy, in England and the United States with the American Revolution [unclear], and in France with the French Revolution. The Austrian Netherlands and the principality of Liège also experienced insurrectional movements, notably the Brabant Revolution and the Liège Revolution.