What Style Or Era Is This

What style and era is this table from?

Great answers from Enrique and Alejandro - it certainly appears to be Castilian style. But I’m going to suggest that it might be from Mexico or even Colombia.The rather heavy “rustic” construction suggests that it may well have been made in a small workshop that will make up furniture to order. They clearly don’t specialise in this style and it hasn’t been made to a pattern, it’s possibly been copied from a picture.Why do I say that? Well everything is just slightly off. The drawer panels are all slightly different. Look at the radiuses at the edge of each panel -each one is slightly different. This suggests that each one has been made individually -without using a pattern. If the maker was making these regularly they would make patterns and jigs to speed up the production of each part and ensure they were all the same size. Look at the tongue and groove on the inside of the cupboard. The lines between the planks on the back and the bottom don’t line up. Again if this was something made to a pattern the maker would probably have made sure they lined up, this looks like the maker had some T&G lying around and though “yeah I’ll use that, who looks inside anyway?” The raw edge without any finish trim also suggests a utilitarian approach. Normally a regularly produced piece would have a little more finesse. The proportions look a little “forced” as well.The hardware looks to be handmade and is clearly oversized. Again maybe something from stock rather than made specifically for this piece.Put all of that together and it looks like you’ve got a one off piece, made in a (possibly) rural workshop by someone who knows their job but who doesn’t have a lot of production machinery to ensure consistency, using a lot of material from stock.I’ve seen a lot of pieces like this coming from workshops in Mexico and Colombia. The fact that you’re in North America suggests it’s more likely to have come from there rather than from Spain.All in all a nice looking solid piece that may well have a story behind it and which suits my aesthetic perfectly. I’d be very happy to have a piece like this.

What style did Handel’s music have?

Handel, the great composer of the baroque era (23 February 1685-14 April 1759), was known for his “complex simplicity” which means that he chooses simple ways to express deep and meaningful effects. Since Handel is of the baroque era , you can guess his style was quite similar to his fellows Johann Sebastian Bach (although bach had a bit more complicated style) and Domenico Scarlatti (the three of them born in the same year 1685) . Despite his simplicity, Handel inspired to many of the great composers of the classical and romantic music such as Mozart and Beethoven.Mozart said : “Handel understands ‘affect’ better than any of us . When he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt”And Beethoven said : “he's the master of us all … the greatest composer that ever lived . I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb”; he also said : “Go to him to learn how to achieve great effects by such simple means”Handel wrote 42 operas, 29 oratorios , 16 organ concerti, more than 110 cantatas, trios , duets , arias , chamber music … His most famous work, he oratorio ‘Messiah’ with its ‘Hallelujah’ chorus that has become the centrepiece of the Christmas season (he also had lots of other famous works) .

What is the origin of the writing style of numbers of the modern era?

The theory that numerals were designed so that they showed a certain number of angles is cute, but it doesn't correspond to the real history.The figures have changed many, many times over the centuries and were relatively fluid until printed books became common.  Here are just a few scripts.  There are dozens that vary by century and by locality.Tobias Dantzig (1884–1956) wrote an excellent book on the subject. Number: the language of science. Macmillan, New York, 1930.  It's getting a little dated now since new information has been discovered in the last 80 years.Georges Ifrah's book is more up-to-date. From one to zero: a universal history of Numbers. Translated by Lowell Bair. Viking, New York, 1985.See also  Indo-European Numerals. de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1992, edited by Jadranka Gvozdanovic.There is no inherent connection between the number of angles in the way a digit is written and and the digit.  The diagram you found was made up and doesn't reflect actual history.  Note, in particular, the arbitrary extra angle at the bottom of the 7.  Converting curves to angles in the digits 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9 is arbitrary as well.  The base of 3 becomes one angle, while the base of 5, which looks the same becomes two angles.