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Great Wall Of China Put To Death
1,672 wordsWriting Assignment: CD-ROM reaction paper Chartres Cathedral Inca ruins Venice Egyptian pyramids The Great Wall of China Initially, prehistoric graves were simple burials covered with a mound of sand or stones and wind blew the sand away, creating a need for a more secure burials (CD-ROM Egyptian Pyramids). Imagine the what ifs? What if there were no scavengers capable of digging through sand and stone? What if the people who buried their dead accepted the scavenging as a part of nature, a part ...
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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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Urban And The Council Of Clermont
855 wordsThere are many accounts of that day in November, 1095. Some were written by monks, others by bishops, and even a few by warriors themselves. Historians are constantly asking, "What exactly did Pope Urban II say at the council of Clermont to persuade Christians to set forth on such a difficult venture as the Crusades?" One man, an early 12 th century cleric named Fulcher of Chartres wrote perhaps the best historical chronicle of the events at Clermont and the speech of Urban II. Fulcher begins hi...
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Love And Marriage Romantic Love
561 wordsThere is a popular song that goes something like love and marriage, love and marriage, goes together like a horse and carriage, ... but not in this time period or in this play. In this play, marriages were arranged to protect family titles and wealth, to provide heirs and to forge unions between powerful families. To maintain the proper levels of class, both men and women usually always married amongst their peers, or at least, that is the way it was suppose to be. Mademoiselle de Chartres was n...
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Gothic Art And Architecture
799 wordsDuring the past week or so our group has been doing a research assignment on Gothic art and architecture. In the following paragraphs we will be discussing Gothic art and architecture, the Rayonnant Gothic period, and sculpture. From about 1140 to the end of the 16 th century religious buildings, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts came to be known. Architecture was predominant in this period. At the beginning of the second half of the 12 th century, the creation...
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Chartres Cathedral Stained Glass
394 wordsChartres Cathedral is the cathedral church of Notre Dame (Our Lady) in the city of Chartres in northwestern France. It is one of the foremost examples of High Gothic French architecture, and is widely noted not only for its innovations in architecture, but also for its many sculptures and celebrated stained glass. The oldest parts of the cathedral are taken from a Romanesque church, which was destroyed by a fire in 1194. The present day cathedral was constructed on this church? s foundation, wit...
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Dans Une Dans Le
1,385 wordsDissertation Introduction La trag? die classique du 17? me si? cle a? t? inspire? e de la trag? die grecque dont toutes les trag? dies avaient un point en commun, lime de lome incapable de faire sa volont? , each? n? par des forces puissante's. Le roman La Princesse de Cl? ves, ? crit par Madame de LaFayette, montre quelques caract? ristique's du genre tragique m? me si cest un roman rom antique. Une trag? die classique a quatre particular? s. Dabord, son? culture doit? tre en vers dans une lang...
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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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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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Great Wall Of China Put To Death
1,739 wordsWriting Assignment: CD-ROM reaction paper Chartres Cathedral Inca ruins Venice Egyptian pyramids The Great Wall of China Egyptian Pyramids? Initially, prehistoric graves were simple burials covered with a mound of sand or stones and wind blew the sand away, creating a need for a more secure burials (CD-ROM Egyptian Pyramids). ? Imagine the? what ifs? ? What if there were no scavengers capable of digging through sand and stone? What if the people who buried their dead accepted the scavenging as a...
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