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12 Th Century Flying Buttresses
2,259 words... rd, thus collapsing them. A building's vertical supporting walls thus had to be made extremely thick and heavy in order to contain the barrels vaults outward thrust. Medieval masons solved this difficult problem about 1120 with a number of brilliant innovations First and foremost they developed a ribbed vault, in which arching and intersecting stone ribs support a vaulted ceiling surface that is composed of mere thin stone panels. This greatly reduced the weight (and thus the outward thrust)...
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Deceptively Simple In Design Four To Nine Ratio Parthenon
737 wordsParthenon Those who have seen Parthenon with their own eyes claim that every picture or slide of the building is nothing compared to the real site, and they are definitely right. Parthenon in Athens, which is probably the most famous and most studied building on earth has had an incredible influence on modern and ancient architecture. Buildings even now continue to borrow parts of the Doric order of which it is built. The Parthenon while deceptively simple in design is in fact an intricate and c...
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Landscape Painting Vertical Lines
1,214 wordsGeorges Seurat painted A Sunday on La Grande Jatte on canvas with oil pigments in 1844. In his work the artist used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it with at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspectiv...
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Vertical Lines Business Transactions
805 wordsThe object in question is marked as a Syrian, Bronze Age, stone label seal (c. 3 rd- 2 nd millennium). Most of the seals I have viewed have much more representational forms on them than this object has. I have not been able to find any books which have pictures of items with this name, which leads me to believe that it has been marked wrong. The object resembles a small, oval shaped bead with indentations in the centers of the longer sides, making it look like the number 8. Both sides have the s...
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Horizontal And Vertical Lines Horizontal And Vertical Rug
382 wordsWendy Jenkins AR 103 AQuiz # 1 February 25, 1999 Islamic Prayer Rugs Once inside the Mulvane Art Museum, my eyes became fixed upon beautiful rugs that lined the wall. As our tour guide, Frankie Payment, explained these rugs are used in everyday life of Muslims. They are called Prayer Rugs. The date on the rug that I especially liked is circa 1700. It is made of cotton weft weaving and wool warp. Each rug consists of an arrow that, when laid down, the arrow will face toward Mecca in Saudi Arabia....
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