The Cathedral Of Notre Dame

Religion in the US today has an obvious inspiratation from the Reniassance Era of Europe. Christianity is popular religion in the US and spreads far from and across different states. A popular similarity in the US based on the Christian religion is the stained glass windows in the churchs. Every church chooses to use different colors and designs for their windows. Some may have images relaying back to the bible while others are simple with just the color. Even though the windows may look fairly similar each church puts their own twist and make iit their own,.

The Chartres Cathedral was, mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220 in Chartres, France. While the construction of the Colosseum was 1,100 years earlier sometime between 70 and 72 ce in the center of the city of Rome, Italy Encyclopedia Britannica (2014). During the erections of these buildings, the architects not only desired to reach great heights visually, but also aspired to pioneer new techniques. This is why through innovation and experimentation there are several distinguishing characteristics of the Chartres Cathedral. The architects used the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, groin vaults and incorporate flying buttresses to create the Gothic style. Similar the Colosseum practice the use of groin vaults. The Colosseum consists of 80

Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre-  The Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre looks more like a castle than a basilica. It is easily recognized by its extraordinary ivory domes. As it may seem remarkable on the outside, it’s interior on this inside is a sight worth seeing.

When reflecting back on this quarter, I see a clear shift from more abstract short stories and poems to blunter, more symbolic novels. Poetry and short stories have a certain sense of fragmentation that allows the reader to slowly come to understand the meaning behind the work. Often times, a reader has to re-read a piece multiple times in order to grasp the intended effect. On the other hand, the novel often includes ideas derived from realism, and focuses on plot and place. In the postmodern novels we read, the rules of time have been broken and the ideas of what defines a novel have been bent in order to convey a particular message. I think the common theme across the works we have read this quarter is the irrelevance of time. When thinking back to Le Guin’s short story

The focal point of St. Mark’s Square, St. Mark’s Basilica is a grandiose example of Italo-Byzantine architecture, featuring an interior with gilded Byzantine mosaics and a floor with an intricate pattern of mosaic and marble. The mosaic-covered domes are recognizable everywhere in the city of Venice.

La Cathédrale engloutie which means Engulfed Cathedral. It was written by a French composer name Claude Debussy for solo piano. This piece was published in 1910 as the tenth prelude in Debussy’s first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes each. Debussy’s musical impressionism is basically a musical of allusion to, an image or idea. For example, he wrote his piece with the exact image that he was composing about. From what I read it stated that the Engulfed Cathedral depicts an old legend from Brittany: To punish the people for their sins, the Cathedral of Ys is engulfed by the sea. Each sunrise the townspeople watch as the sunken cathedral rises from the water and then sinks slowly into the ocean. But which is why I felt the way that I felt

I completely agree with your explanation for the first question. I answered the first question exactly the way you think about the symbol of the cathedral and how it affects the meaning of the story. The only comment I would like to make is that you should consider using one or two quotes in your future assignments. It would really help to provide an important piece of evidence to your statement and also improve your writing skills.

The structure we chose to do is the Saint Basil's Cathedral , which is located in Red Square, Moscow. It was built from 1555-61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible to celebrate the capture of Kazan from Mongol forces. The Saint. Basil’s Cathedral is officially called “ The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat”. The Cathedral is now a museum. One service a year is held in the Cathedral, on the day of Intercession in October.

Next stop on our map was the Metropolitan Cathedral. Which is in fact, the largest cathedral in the Americas. Since the building was built on a slant angle if feels like I am walking downhill. From the inside, the buildings architecture was gray-like marble pillars surrounded by golden statues of angels and saints. Also, the church had many historic paintings. Throughout the cathedral, on the side walls were many exhibits on holy saints. Many tourist go and visit these saints to give a prayer or ask for their needs. I personally saw one of the saint's remains which kind of freaked me out. Though it was very educational learning about the Cathedral’s history.

The path toward this building is designed specifically to approach the cathedral on foot. This is giving me the time long enough to contemplate about the building and learn about the shape, enjoy the structure and even come with multiple ideas about it. It is approachable in this way. It is making us more involved rather than keeping us at a distance. As I am walking I am thinking that the fish has a story behind it. But before I get to the story I am thinking about the sign as part of the language and culture that was created in the community and now it is in use here. The sign and language is the realm of structuralism. However in this case it is not a unified and universal sign. This sign was a way to let others know of one’s belief in Jesus

This investigation will attempt to answer how architecture reflects the values of medieval society in the 11th century. The question is relevant because today archeologists all over the world have been able to identify the values of the people at that time, it also allows them to compare societies. The location that will be focused on will be Northern Europe. The issues that will be addressed are the importance of the buildings placement, the structural importance of the buildings and the societal values as a whole. This will be accomplished through a thorough examination of Medieval Cathedrals by William Clark and The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes.

This church was called, The Basilica of Saint Denis-Western Façade. “Although still faithful to the Romanesque, the new façade introduced a new architectural element, the first Rose Window.” (Medieval-Spell). Suger decided to construct this new rose window at the western entrance of the church, and from then on out completely changed the vision of architecture during that time period. An article called “Gothic Cathedrals” written by Grace Gregory states, “Suger wanted to create a physical representation of the Heavenly Jerusalem, a building with a high degree of linearity that was filled with beautiful light and color.” (Four Rivers

Thursday came and went before I even knew what happened. I caught the metro to the Opera house and not even my extensive thespian experience would prepare me for the lavishness of this theater. All of the details, even on the smallest of walls, were incredible. What it would have been like to be a theatergoer back in the day.

The Cathedral of Saint James was more than just a cathedral, it was also a destination pilgrims desired to have seen, perhaps because it held the body of St. James. the cathedral is entered through large double doors at the end of a transept rather than through a western portal. However, though other entrances had been designed, all welcomers once inside entered a transept which mirrored the nave in height and structure. The nave and transept both contain two stories, and compound piers with attached half columns support the barrel vault on all four sides. The entrance does not have a clerestory, instead light enters the nave and transept indirectly through windows. According to pilgrims, the cathedral was large, spacious, admirable, and beautiful.

The Pantheon temple is like a circular or a cylindrical shape and has a group of huge Corinthian columns topped by a pediment which was decorated; the columns were made of marble. There are really three distinct buildings in the Pantheon. The "pronoas or entrance porch, which looks like the front of a standard Greco-Roman temple; the circular domed rotunda: and an intermediate building connecting the porch and rotunda. The Pronoas had sixteen monolithic round pillars of Egyptian granite. The rotunda is 142 feet (43.3 meters) in diameter and above it is a perfectly hemispheric dome of exactly the same diameter and the same center height. The oculus or eye, the circular opening at the top of the dome had a diameter of 27 feet (8.2 m). It is