
The bourgeoisie was made up of people not under the jurisdiction manor essentially free traders and craftsmen living in cities or towns, typically urban performing tasks such as trade, banking or the mere exercise of a profession or trade.
As the feudal aristocracy was losing relevance for some increasingly centralized monarchy, the bourgeoisie - thanks to its economic strength and in partnership with the real aristocracy - was gaining more political power, that helped establish the legal bases to develop a productive way to meet your interests, trade expansion and trade union activity and conquer, eventually the municipal system.
The flowering of Gothic art is in large part to the development of an aristocratic society and bourgeois court, who with his money and his way of conceiving life promote a renewed refinement and elegance of art. Thus, in parallel with a predominantly religious art comes a secular art, buildings filled with luxury and comfort that reflect the economic and political power of its inhabitants, also reappears portraits and scenes are representations of everyday household and own the bourgeois lifestyle.
The bourgeoisie was consolidated during the Renaissance, through the development of colonial trade. Later, in the late eighteenth , lack of access to power because of the absolutist political momentum had stopped the bourgeois. The reaction of the bourgeoisie against the absolutist kings was the defense of natural rights and constitutional government as opposed to the privileges of the sovereign and the nobility.

Petrus Christus .- The Jeweler and San promised or Eligio in his workshop. 1449. Oil on canvas .- school Gothic Artist Flemish (some authors place it within the Nordic Renaissance )
student Jan Van Eyck . The artist had great success among groups or guilds of Bruges, between the nobles and merchants who commissioned numerous portraits. The condition is characterized by the thoroughness of the implementation , desire for detail and taste for linear perspective. The scene their location inside a jewelry store, where possibly Saint Eligius, patron saint of goldsmiths weighs a ring, are promised high status. In the table displayed coins and other objects. A shelf full of utensils (pots, a piece of coral, a ring box ...) There is a mirror reflecting two passers Verdera located within a cityscape. The box combines a religious theme with another lay for the purposes of the tastes of the rich bourgeoisie.
After the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie resume political power gradually introducing parliamentary democracy and success begins with the industrial revolution, giving rise to capitalism and class society. The great capitalist bourgeoisie becomes the ruling class owns the means of production, clearly separated from the working class or proletariat. From this moment, the old revolutionary bourgeoisie becomes a conservative class and exploitive of workers being required the development of socialist currents for the purpose of raising awareness and organizing the proletariat in the struggle for their rights.
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