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This gravestone was produced in marble and dates from the between 450 and 440 BC. While the little girls face is both composed and...
This essay focuses on the position of theologian Douglas Wilson in regards to "paideia," which means education in Greek. The conte...
one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...
direction this modern era should take: "While many of the citizens of Victoria cherished and identified with its picturesque archi...
"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...
gods" (Lansberry, 2005). However, as rational thought and rational perspective began to enter into human intellect "we could no lo...
Greek life was impacted in many ways by its art and architecture (Dickinson, 2008). Two of the most visible of these ways were th...
capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...
down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...
The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...
building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
In eight pages classical Greek civilization is examined in a series of brief independent essays that include astrology and the Gre...
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....
very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...
cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...
In five pages this paper examines a 'trunk theater' rural school production of Medea, the Greek tragedy by Euripides....
this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...
As such one could clearly argue that the basic design of the Epidauros influenced the design and construction of the Colosseum. Th...
of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
is very advanced and demonstrates once again a close connection, in the ancient Greeks works, between mathematics and philosophy. ...
style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...
is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...
Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...
accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...
styles as well (Salingaros, 2001). It is important to note that what divides the two types is the fact that whether or not there i...
the numbers of pilgrims on the roads (Petersen, 2005). These churches were characterized by "thick heavy walls which support sto...
previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...