YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Cathedrals of Gothic Architecture
Essays 61 - 90
that has always, apparently, been associated with the Virgin Mother. One author notes that "The town of Chartres had been a center...
to the nineteenth century, the pipe organ was predominant, but it soon found a formidable rival in the reed organs that were being...
as flying buttresses that direct the load of the roof down to the ground. Cologne Cathedral boasts a "double range of stupendous f...
hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...
are no readily discernible passive features that accommodate solar heat collection; however, the portico does offer shelter from r...
medieval periods, which involved numerous activities of economic import, such as the "quarrying, carving and laying of stone, the ...
Florida senator Mel Martinez who has introduced the Senior and Taxpayers Obligation Protection (STOP) Act (S. 975) in May 2009 (An...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
offers insight into the significance of the stranger for his role is to teach the narrator, to make him see in a very new and powe...
bell tower is the most notable feature of Saint Sernin and is located directly above the transept crossing. Consisting of five ti...
the foul odour that used to be present at the site" (easyor, 2005). Presumably if they are still carrying in bouquets it is ceremo...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
serve as a visible symbol as a national house of prayer. The Cathedrals commitment to avoiding any connection with public support...
is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...
This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...
this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...
is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...
presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...
during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...
The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...
farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...
Medieval sculpture is of special interest in regard to the varying influence of the Christian faith on the sculpture that was prod...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...