Essays 361 - 390
modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...
In a five page paper the ancient Mayan city of Palenque is examined in terms of its religious and historical influences and how th...
as Josiah Conder notes in his classic study of the subject, "the clipping and carving of trees and bushes into shapes such as moun...
Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...
are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...
finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...
as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...
of metallurgy was that of Achaean colonization, which brought forth the cultural and linguistic components of Hellenism., which "g...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...
building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
can tell that ornamentation is a large part of this model. The Irish often added spirals and curves. One might look at these as co...
of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...