period are Abbaye aux Hommes (the Abbey of the Men) in Caen‚ France; Worms Cathedral in Germany‚ the Cathedral of Pisa with its famous leaning campanile (bell tower)‚ Modena Cathedral and the Parma Cathedral in Italy‚ and Durham Cathedral and Peterborough Cathedral in England. Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey‚ France‚ has a square tower over the crossing. The western pinnacles are in the Gothic style. Speyer Cathedral‚ Germany‚ from the east‚ shows the apse projecting from a chancel framed
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The different gothic styles were influenced heavily by politics‚ religion‚ and the geographic location. Majority of the styles include the pointed arches‚ the ribbed vaults and the flying buttress. Gothic design is accustom for many of the great cathedrals‚ abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles‚ palaces‚
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Critical Thinking Reflection Denise Smith HUM/115 Marguerite Dominguez 03/30/2015 Critical Thinking Reflection Receiving a College Degree Improves Your Career Opportunities If you were to take a poll in the United States asking if obtaining a college degree improves your career opportunities‚ you would most likely get a resounding‚ “yes.” During my research on the subject‚ I found that almost every single article I came across proved time and time again that
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another Gothic Cathedral. They created a mounsterous three hundred and seventy seven feet high‚ and four hundred and twenty seven feet long church: The Chartres Cathedral. The pointy tips of the monument was to form a sense of direction that allowed people to ultimately see for themselves that it does serve as a divine function. It is cemetrical to create a sense of peace and harmony. The Cathedral did not only stand as a center point for the city‚ but also a place of worship. The cathedral has been known
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and Lippo Memmi‚ Annunciation with Saints Ansanus and Margherita (1333) and Brunelleschi‚ Filippo‚ Dome of Florence Cathedral (1420-36). The reason I chose these are because they relate to the Catholic religion in different ways. The Annunciation with Saints Ansanus and Margherita was the beginning of the Catholic art during the Gothic time period while the Dome of Florence Cathedral was not only a masterpiece of artwork it was also a breakthrough for the construction during that time and for the
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be part of the church. (Scott‚ page 149) Cathedrals and churches were sacred spaces‚ an escape from the hardship and brutality of life‚ indicating that religion during this time was the most important influence in medieval culture‚ art‚ and architecture. It is evident in the monumental cathedrals and churches. Many argue that art and design weren’t important during Medieval times. It is evident‚ however‚ through careful observation of monumental cathedrals and churches built during the early Middle
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The building in Renaissance architecture[ Despite its history‚ the building is seen as one of the great examples of the new style. Its more notable features include: • the attempt to create a proportional relationship between nave and aisle (aisle bays are square whereas nave bays are 2X1. • the articulation of the structure in pietra serena (Italian: “dark stone”). • the use of an integrated system of column‚ arches‚ entablatures. • a clear relationship between column and pilaster‚ the
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da Vinci ’s does? Of course not. In order to find beauty‚ we must separate the exceptional cases from the common ones. True b eauty is such because it stands out from the masses of the average and pedestrian. Like da Vinci ’s Mona Lisa‚ the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris is an exceptional‚ and exceptionally b eautiful‚ object.
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houses in the country‚ the middle class lived in wooden houses in the city‚ and the wealthiest lived in brick houses (or manors) in the city or in the country. These manors were among the largest structures built for their time. Only castles and cathedrals were bigger (History Learning Site‚ 2007). The lower class citizens generally lived in cottages or huts had a frame made from trees‚ and walls made out of a packing a combination of clay‚ dung‚ and straw onto a frame of wattle laths (Dartford Archive
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visual elements attached to it and is more of an interpersonal communication. BethanysLife is a YouTube channel started on 2010 which now has about 693‚278 subscribers and 23‚670‚162 video views (see appendix B) owned by a seventeen year old teen Bethany Mota. Over the years her vlogs has grown a strong cult following among the other vloggers. There are several Facebook fan pages and dedicated Twitter accounts titled as ‘Motavator’‚ ‘Bethanators_07’‚ ‘Macbarbie07fans’ (twitter handles- see appendix
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