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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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Canada Michelangelo The Life Of Guido Nincheri
1,475 words"I'm tired of people coming back from Europe and telling me how beautiful the churches are. We " ve forgotten what we " ve got here. " mac 1996 Between 1915 and 1973 the Italian-Canadian painter Guido Nincheri devoted his life to producing stained glass windows and frescoes for more than one hundred churches across North America. Although honoured in Montreal's three hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a builder of the city, few Canadians know of the identity of this craftsman. The purpose of th...
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Canada Michelangelo The Life Of Guido Nincheri
1,441 words... uche's on his delicate work at a new project at Baie Comes Ste Emile Church, he was arrested by two R. C. M. P. agents. Labeled as a fascist sympathizer, Guido was placed in a prisoner of war camp at Petawawa, outside of Pembroke. Later, after his imprisonment, three more RCMP agent showed up at his studio searching for any documents that might prove their theory of Guido being a fascist supporter. Giulia Guido's wife, was outraged at her husband's imprisonment and the accusations of the gov...
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18th Century American Domestic Architecture
2,608 words18 th Century American Domestic Architecture Architecture is the art or practice of designing and building Structures. American architecture varies significantly from architecture of the ancient world. American architecture began around the seventeenth century. Settlers from different European countries brought with them, during the North American colonization, the different techniques and forms from their homelands. Domestic architecture is produced for the social unit: the individual, family, ...
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Stained Glass Gothic Cathedrals
2,306 wordsART APPRECIATION STAINED GLASS I. CONCRETE EXPERIENCE I think my interest in the combination of glass, light and color began as a child when I discovered the colorful images created inside a kaleidoscope. Even as an adult, I cannot seem to resist picking up a kaleidoscope and gazing into the viewer as I rotate the tube to change the design of the colored bits of glass. If you walk into my home, it is apparent that I like to decorate with glass. I have glass flowers, marbles, stones, vases, balls...
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Gothic Cathedrals Flying Buttresses
885 wordsThe Gothic Architecture Gothic Architecture The church in the Middle Ages was a place that all people, regardless of class, could belong to. As a source of unity, its influence on art and architecture was great during this time. As society drew away from the feudal system of the Romanesque period, a new spirit of human individualism began to take hold; alas, the birth of Gothic. Here, the Church became a place where humanity became more acceptable, alas becoming the ideal place to visual such ne...
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Brothers And Sisters Saint Francis
1,478 wordsFaith And Franciscanism Fr. Patrick Donate, T. O. R. Summer, 200 Important Events In The Life Of Saint Francis At Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania there is a beautiful Chapel on campus. It is called the Immaculate Conception Chapel. The chapel is open to all those wishing to visit, or perhaps worship and pray. Anyone visiting the chapel has the wonderful oppurtunity to see the beautiful stained-glass windows throughout the chapel, and in particular the six large windows depictin...
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Crown Of Thorns Gothic Cathedral
1,246 wordsThe choice colors Sainte-Chapelle Sainte-Chapelle The choice colors of the painting, the costly gilding of the carving, the delicate translucency of the red glowing windows, the splendid altar carvings, the miracles working power of the sacred relics, and the decorations of the shrines sparkling with their precious stones lend this house of prayer such an intensity of adornment that entering one would think one had been transported to Heaven, setting foot in one of the finest rooms of Paradise (...
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