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Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Article Analysis: Japanese Architecture

a renowned Japanese architect who makes his home in Osaka. The new museum is "dedicated to the relics and techniques of ancient Ja...

Islamic Influence in Venetian Architecture

In "The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in A World Civilization" Marshal Hodgson (1990)...

Current Major Influences on Design and Architecture

designing of building, but in realty it is much broader than this, in addition to the need for creative knowledge and the practica...

The Stages of Opening up a New Business; The Economic Perspective

located close together (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This may appear to increase immediate competition, but it also has the impact of a...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

"The Asphalt Jungle" and "Citizen Kane" as Classics of Film Noir

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

Architecture, Practice And Management

was felt the entire industry had become uncompetitive and inefficient, the lessons are applicable universally. This is a r...

Issues Affecting the Realization of Architecture

materials, may not work in the Northwest where the weather is far more wet and thus requiring different materials, than in the Sou...

Early and High Renaissance

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

Time Capsule: Renaissance & The Age Of Baroque

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...

Architecture and Culture: A Focus on Egypt

some homes and buildings seem to be unique. In fact, many artists design buildings as such. When delving back into time, is it fai...

Architecture Hi Tech and Postmodernism

inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...

Analysis of Six Museum Works of Art

accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...

Architecture of Savannah's Mickve Israel

structure and appreciate its cathedral-like atmosphere. Stereotypes images of what a synagogue ought to look like...do not match t...

Minimalist Architecture

styles as well (Salingaros, 2001). It is important to note that what divides the two types is the fact that whether or not there i...

Cathedrals of Gothic Architecture

most powerful elements of the style of the gothic cathedrals, as seen in the Arts and Crafts movement, is that which relates to st...

A History of the Tabernacle and Catholic Pulpit

the first Christians inherited their forms of worship from Judaism, that is, from the temple and the synagogue (Bieler 12). Howeve...

Religious Pilgrimages, Architecture, and Art

the numbers of pilgrims on the roads (Petersen, 2005). These churches were characterized by "thick heavy walls which support sto...

Work Analysis of Home Health Agency's Information Technology Upgrade

adequately met at all in HHHs current business process structure. Altering the architecture, performance and infrastructure persp...

Biography of Sir Christopher Wren

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

Graphic Design and the Gutenberg Galaxy

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

Versailles Palace Architecture

Louis XIV wanted to do more than outdo other powers in the creation of this home or palace. He wanted it to...

1956's Roth House

property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth Hou...

5 'Golden Threads' and Their Implications

and Shared Minds Implications for business are clear. All of these threads weave together in the effective organization to...

Architectural Objectives of the Eames House

there is a definite uniqueness to the design as well, integrating fresh and unusual elements among the most ordinary of materials ...

Art and Modernism

value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to others, was that modern art had driven itself ...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Post 1945 Program Houses and Architecture of Southern California

architecture include a number of architects that could be said to included modernists, post-modernists and deconstructionists such...