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Essays 211 - 240
structure and appreciate its cathedral-like atmosphere. Stereotypes images of what a synagogue ought to look like...do not match t...
inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...
accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...
as Josiah Conder notes in his classic study of the subject, "the clipping and carving of trees and bushes into shapes such as moun...
to be saying that the term, bigger is better has applied for years where buildings were concerned. Whether he takes this to task, ...
In a five page paper the ancient Mayan city of Palenque is examined in terms of its religious and historical influences and how th...
of metallurgy was that of Achaean colonization, which brought forth the cultural and linguistic components of Hellenism., which "g...
as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...
are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
"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...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
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 ...
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 ...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...
These are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom time periods. THE OLD KINGDOM STRETCHED BETWEEN 2686 AND 2125 B...
Discusses the organizational architecture from a case study entitled Feel Better Pediatric Clinic. Also discussed is compensation ...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
as dated, as indicated by Robin who states that "The free joyful, light, elegant and unbuildable concept of the fifties became a s...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
also a renown architect, and it was his influence that first spurred the imagination of his sons (Robert Adam, 2003)....
later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...
the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...