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19 Th Century Art And Architecture
5,152 wordsArchitecture, the practice of building design and its resulting products; customary usage refers only to those designs and structures that are culturally significant. Architecture is to building as literature is to the printed word. Vitruvius, a 1 st-century BC Roman, wrote encyclopedically about architecture, and the English poet Sir Henry Wotton was quoting him in his charmingly phrased dictum: "Well building hath three conditions: Commodities, Firmenes, and Delight. " More prosaically, one wo...
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Test Tube Cm 3
802 wordsINFORMATION FOR PROBLEMS 1 - 5: 25 g KNO 3 and 25 g NaCl were place into 7. 2 gcm 3 of water, heated to 70 degrees and filtered. All necessary. 1. How much KNO 3 should be found in the filtrate? 2. Approximately how much NaCl should be found in the filtrate? 3. When filtered at 70 degrees, how much NaCl should be found on the filter 4. When the filtrate is cooled to 20 degrees, how much of the KNO 3 can be expected to crystallize (precipitate)? 5. About how much NaCl will precipitate in the filt...
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Great Pyramid Years Ago
1,279 wordsThere are days when the sand blows ceaselessly, blanketing the remains of a powerful dynasty that ruled Egypt 5, 000 years ago. When the wind dies down and the sands are still, a long shadow casts a wedge of darkness across the Sahara, creeping ever longer as the north African sun sinks beyond the horizon. This is where our history of Egypt begins, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where stone meets sky as a testament to one of the greatest civilizations on earth. Here, on the plateau ...
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Wooden Structural Frame Traditional Chinese Architecture Structure
471 wordsThe basic feature of Chinese architecture is rectangular-shaped units of space joined together into a whole. Temples in ancient Greece also employed rectangular spaces, but the overall effect tended to austerity. The Chinese style, by contrast, combines rectangular shapes varying in size and position according to importance into an organic whole, with each level and component clearly distinguished. As a result, traditional Chinese style buildings have an imposing yet dynamic and intriguing exter...
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God Or Goddess 8 Th Century
1,619 wordsGreek architecture begins with the simple houses of the Dark Age and culminates in the monumental temples of the Classical period and the elaborately planned cities and sanctuaries of the Hellenistic period. As in any time or place, the raw materials available and the technologies developed to utilize them largely determined the nature of the architecture. The principal materials of Greek architecture were wood, used for supports and roof beams; unbaked brick, used for walls, especially of priva...
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Diego Rivera Spanish Speaking
1,866 words... rides a good opportunity to introduce children to the Mexican sombrero. Its a good point to have children start to learn more about traditional Mexican clothing and make their own. From this story, students can make sombreros and Mexican Indian huipil's which is a simple sack like shirt with openings for the head and arms. MUSIC It is my intent to have students learn popular Mexican songs which are short and easy to memorize. The resource I will be using the most for this task is a book call...
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Greek Temples Greek Architecture
1,054 wordsThe Greeks thought of their Gods as having the same needs as human beings, they believed that the Gods needed somewhere to live on Earth. Temples were built as the gods' earthly homes. The basic design of temples developed from the royal halls of the Maycenaean Age. A Mycenaean palace consisted of a number of buildings often more than one story high, grouped around a central courtyard. It was brightly painted, both inside and out. In each palace there was a large hall called a megaron, where the...
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Century Ad Excellent Example
785 wordsThe chief temple of a Roman city, the capitalism, was generally located at one end of the forum. The standard Roman temple was a blend of Etruscan and Greek elements; rectangular in plan, it had a gabled roof, a deep porch with freestanding columns, and a frontal staircase giving access to its high plinth, or platform. The traditional Greek orders, or canons (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian), were usually retained, but the Romans also developed a new type of column capital called the composite capital,...
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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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Aircraft Drill And Bicycle Crank Bicycle Crank And Aircraft Drill Shape
332 wordsParts, Pieces and Remnants Abstract: The two pieces that have been chosen are the bicycle crank and aircraft drill. Reason of chosenshapecolorLife span material Other use Bicycle Crank Color, light weight Smooth rectangular Silver Long, dependable Aluminum- Aircraft Drill Interesting shape Helical Silver Life time Steel Drilling other objects Introduction: Having a knowledge about materials that have been used in an object, helps us better understand the technology around us. This experiment is ...
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French Painter Open Window
1,129 wordsJuan Gris was born in 1887. He was a Spanish born French painter who went to the cubist school. Originally his name was Jose Victorian Gonzalez, he was born in Madrid and educated there. He left Madrid in 1906 and went to Paris, making the acquaintance of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and of the French painter Georges Braque. Gris first cubist paintings, generally more calculated than those of Picasso and Braque, appeared in 1912. He spent the next summer in C? et, France, with Picasso, and while...
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Santa Maria Roman Architecture
686 wordsPantheon, temple dedicated to all the gods. The Pantheon of Rome is the best-preserved major edifice of ancient Rome and one of the most significant buildings in architectural history. In shape it is an immense cylinder concealing eight piers, topped with a dome and fronted by a rectangular colonnaded porch. The great vaulted dome is 43. 2 m (142 ft) in diameter, and the entire structure is lighted through one aperture, called an oculus, in the center of the dome. The Pantheon was erected by the...
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Woman Art
780 wordsProximity and Juxtaposition In order to properly compare and contrast the similarities between juxtaposition and proximity a definition is surely needed of the two. Proximity for instance, refers to the relative nearness of forms, and how that effects the relationship between them. Juxtaposition on the other hand, refers to the way in which elements or forms are placed next to each other. Juxtaposition and proximity are two important aspects of design that are often used together and must be tak...
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