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16 Th And 17 Art And Architecture
5,151 words... mi sphere set on the larger circle is intersected by vertical planes rising from the sides of the square, forming four arches. A horizontal plane is then passed through the hemisphere at the tops of these arches, providing a ring on which is built the dome, which has a diameter equal to the circle inscribed within the square. The pendentive's are spherical triangles, the remaining portions of the first, or outer, hemisphere. At Hagia Sophia, two opposing arches on the central square open int...
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Elizabethan Era Gothic Architecture
1,746 wordsThe Elizabethan Age was an innovative and unique period in history. In this period architecture was more than a profession, it was an art, and an influence on the people. Architects in this period made historical differences, the styles of architecture transitioned greatness, and the homes created an individual standing. Elizabethan architecture was an influential "trend" in which the "competition" for social division began, and architects attempted to replicate Italian Renaissance architecture....
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Bram Stoker Jonathan Harker
886 wordsThe aspect of Dracula that makes it so frightening, as opposed to contemporary horror, is that of the strong persona of Count Dracula himself. For all of the terror he inspires, The Count has few appearances in the novel, instead using his mystique to frighten the reader. While nearly all current books and films in the horror genre focus on the aspects of violence and shock appeal, Dracula uses the element of suspense to captivate the reader. By using the element of fear, Bram Stoker keeps the r...
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Belle Dame Sans Merci Wuthering Heights
1,033 wordsThe conflicting theme demonstrated throughout Wuthering Heights is remarkably similar to the theme implicit in La Belle Dame sans Merci. This conflict is in the form of appearances, Illusion vs. Reality and man vs. nature and is personified through the characters, as well as the similarity of Gothic surroundings in both texts. In Wuthering Heights this parallel is shown through Heathcliff, who is vulnerable after falling head over heel for Catherine. Similarly in La Belle Dame sans Merci the Kni...
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John The Baptist Dorian Gray
1,190 wordsGothic Literature was a natural progression from romanticism, which had existed in the 18 th Century. Initially, such a unique style of literature was met with a somewhat mixed response; although it was greeted with enthusiasm from members of the public, literary critics were much more dubious and sceptical. Gothic writing is a style of literature that relies upon the evocation of moods, feelings and imagery for impact. This style of writing was developed during an age of great scientific discov...
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Chartres Cathedral Notre Dame
1,779 wordsThe medieval Gothic cathedral was in many ways a civic building as well as a religious one. This particularly was the case with the famous cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres (Our Lady of Chartres) in the town of the same name, 80 km south-east of Paris, built in the 13 th century. Chartres cathedral was planned not only as a place of worship, but also developed as the centre of the town's economy and way of life, as the place that housed the relic of the cloak of the Virgin Mary. The local citizen...
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Thames And Hudson Chartres Cathedral
1,709 words... furrier making a cloak with some assistants (Fig. 8); lastly on the bottom 'petal' of the miracles of Mary window, two butchers cut meat for a customer (Fig. 9) Secular glass windows showing the trade of the donors were also complimented by the use of some secular sculptures on the outside of the cathedral. Sculptures at the cathedral included not only religious images, but also images of kings and queens. The sculptures on the west facade depict Christ's ascension into heaven, episode from ...
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Eighteenth Century Twentieth Century
803 wordsId like to consider Gothic fictions virtuous women: the heroines of sensibility. Born from the eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility[ 2 ] (the study of the correlation between emotional stimuli and physical responsiveness), these fictional heroines are fair-haired and virtuous, whose goodness illuminates the forces of darkness; they are hostages to villains, often in the guise of malevolent father figures; they rely on protection from paternal figures, namely brothers and suitors; and thei...
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Frankenstein The Age Of Reason And Decay
889 wordsRousseau's ideology of education and nature laid the basic ground work for many of the Gothic novels that saturated the English society from the 1764 to 1830. From The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe to the book which was able to forge a bridge of thought that was able to span the chasm formed by the age of reason between the supernatural and reason, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. As a predecessor of the romantic movement, the Gothic novel was a direct reaction against the age of reason. T...
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Thrushcross Grange Wuthering Heights
1,875 words... ould share a kingdom on the moors as timeless, and as phantasmal, as any imagined by Poe. In place of Poe's androgynous male lovers we have the immature Heathcliff (only twenty years old when Catherine dies); in place of the vampire Ligeia, or the amenorrheic Lady Madeleine, is the tomboyish Catherine, whose life has become a terrifying "blank" since the onset of puberty. No more poignant words have been written on the baffled anguish of the child-self, propelled into an unwanted maturity, a...
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Edgar Allan Poe House Of Usher
570 wordsRunning head: MOVIE GOTH Movie Goth May 28, 2009 Movie Goth Terrifying stories about madness, torture, death, decay and unexplainable fears are the core elements of Edgar Allan Poe's gothic stories. Poe is considered the original grandmaster of gore, however, Hollywood interpretation of gothic elements in Poe's movies is quite different from original Poe's intentions. For example, when comparing original Poe's stories and Hollywood interpretations such as The Raven (1963) and House of Usher (196...
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Walpole Ch 1 Castle Of Otranto Gothic
840 wordsThe Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole tried to blend the wildness and imagination of the old romances with the new genre fiction, and invented the Gothic novel the Castle of Otranto. Gothic, by definition, is a genre of literature characterized by a brooding, gloomy setting, and mysterious or violent events. In 1809 Gothic novels were very popular. This quote from The Castle of Otranto is a good example of it: Theodore at length determined to repair to the forest that Matilda had pointed out to h...
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Light And Dark Tim Burton
2,443 wordsIt makes you realize how abstract the film industry, and life in general, really is how much of it is just based on things that are out of your control Tim Burton is just a man like any other man, except any other man is not Tim Burton. Tim Burton is a filmmaker. As a filmmaker, Burton has creative power over what he produces, directs, or even writes. His auteur, ? a term in film criticism that is applied to a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the d...
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Boston Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company
952 wordsThroughout the centuries, Cathedrals ~Cathedrals~ Throughout the centuries, beautiful Medieval cathedrals have been towering above every building and till this day, still survive with their astonishing appearance. Their structure resemble the power and glory of heavens. Today, they are known as prayers in stone because they are respected as holy places. Taking literally hundreds of years to build these great Gothic buildings, the skillful carpenters and masons responsible for the construction ar...
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13 Th Century Fa Ade
919 wordsThe Tomb Effigy of Jaquelin deferrer (Limestone, North French, late 13 th century) is unusual in style for the time and place in which it was created. In the 13 th century, Gothic art in France consisted of more three dimensional sculpture and more of a variety in the poses of the figures than in the Romanesque period which preceded it. The Tomb Effigy of Jaquelin deferrer falls into the transition period between the Romanesque (11 th- 12 th century) and Gothic time-frames (12 th- 15 th century)...
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Beginning Of The Story Gothic Novels
1,389 wordsUnbelievably Mary Shelley Frankenstein Frankenstein Unbelievably Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein at the age of eighteen. This great work captures the imaginations of its readers. Frankenstein remains one of the greatest examples of Gothic literature. Unlike other Gothic novels of the time, however, Frankenstein also includes elements of Romantic writing, and therefore cannot be classified as soley Gothic. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist. The daughter of the British ...
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Gothic Cathedrals Middle Ages
357 wordsRepresented primarily through cathedrals, Romanesque and Gothic styles of architecture were some of the few symbols of civilization in the poverty stricken and often depressing Middle Ages. These cathedrals represented faith, dedication, and cooperation; a sane place in a world of anarchy. Gothic and Romanesque styles of architecture were related in various ways, yet they also contrasted in style in some ways. Romanesque and Gothic architecture, although having many similarities, also have many ...
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13 Th Century Gothic Sculpture Cathedral
406 wordsGothic Sculpture In the Gothic period, remarkable sculpture was produced in France, Germany, and Italy. As in Romanesque times, much of it was made in conjunction with church architecture, although sculptured figures are also found on tombs, pulpits, and other church furnishings. France The great cathedral at Chartres exemplifies the stylistic evolution of the Gothic, which can be traced in viewing its portals. Its west entrance, the earliest, built in the mid- 12 th century, displays rigid, col...
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Toni Morrison Paul D
960 wordsThe idea of a ghost story or horror story has long since been introduced into the world of American literature starting in the late 18 th century. These works played with the idea of life after death and its effects on the present. The term gothic or gothic horror has been used to describe this form of literature. The literary meaning of the gothic style of is hard to define, but to give it a simple meaning the gothic is when the supernatural encounters the natural. In the novel Beloved by Toni ...
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House Of Usher Fall Of The House
1,034 wordsGothic Setting The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe has a gothic horror story setting. Gothic means that the author emphasizes the mysterious, the horrible, the ghostly and the fear that can be aroused in the reader. Everyone knows that a gothic story or a ghost story will often have a setting that will be in an old, decaying mansion far out in a desolate countryside. The mansion will be filled with cobwebs, strange noises, bats, and an abundance of secret panels and corridors, in w...
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