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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...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
pervaded Western architecture for more than two millennia. The Greek temple emerged as the archetypal shrine of all time. Unlike ...
soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...
In eight pages Islamic architecture and art are examined in a comparative analysis of these mosaics. Seven sources are cited in t...
is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...
of design that was popular in Europe, but particularly in France during the 1700s5. Interior design and ornamentation are aspects ...
style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...
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...
Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...
is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...
previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...
the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...
Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...
from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...
This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...
early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...
In fifteen pages Le Corbusier's modern architecture movement is examined in terms of how it links architecture and fashion in acco...
home, Aden compares the processes involved with EA to way that homeowners offer input to a contractor on what features that they d...
The writer looks at a number of issues that should be considered by those planning and implementing information technology project...
In seven pages this paper examines Minoan architecture and how it evolved into the classical Greek architecture style. Five sourc...
in the new Renaissance style" (Essential Architecture, 2008). One can see this monumental element through the relatively flat exte...