First Dream
A nun's philosophical poem on the soul's flight to knowledge, the peak of New World Baroque verse
- Author
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Style
- Latin American Baroque — Iberian Baroque reworked by Indigenous and mestizo craftsmen into dense, gilded church fronts
- Century
- 17th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1690–1694 Church of the Intercession at Fili · Naryshkin Baroque · Fili, Moscow
- c. 1694 The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Matsuo Bashō · Edo (Tokyo)
- 1689–1690 Bell tower of the Novodevichy Convent · Naryshkin Baroque · Moscow
- c. 1689 Dido and Aeneas — Henry Purcell · Baroque · Chelsea, London
- 1717 Pilgrimage to Cythera — Antoine Watteau · Rococo · Paris
- c. 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring — Johannes Vermeer · Dutch Golden Age Painting · Delft
- 1664 Tartuffe — Molière · Versailles
- 1692–1695 Sukharev Tower — Mikhail Choglokov · Naryshkin Baroque · Moscow
What was happening in the world
- 1687 Newton's Principia
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great
- 1683 Battle of Vienna
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution