The colonnades floor is paved with terrazzo. The next area I enter is the Triclinium which is the main dining room and where guests were entertained. The gorgeous floor is inlaid stone and imitates the one found in the House of Deer in Herculaneum. The ceiling is arched with recessed panels. And illustrated with illusionist scenes with elements inspired by the House of the Fruit Orchard in Pompeii.
Gregory Jackson 10/10/2014 Professor Cox HUM-201-10-F14 American monuments that reflect the influence of Roman sculpture and/or architecture Growing up in the Washington D.C Metropolitan area I have seen many different sculptures, buildings, and murals. In addition, the building that reflects the influence of a Roman sculpture the most would have to be the Washington monument, but as a child we called it the upside-down pencil. The Washington Monument is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid shape at the top. The monument was built to commend the first documented President of the United States George Washington. According to nationalparkservice.gov, “The Washington Monument towers above the city that bears his name, serving as an awe-inspiring reminder of George Washington's greatness”.
The beams supports contain the printer’s marks of famous early printers. The Hall of Texas at the west wing of the library is the Business and Social Science Reading Room. It is called the Hall of Texas due to the paintings on the cement ceiling beams. Each beam is painted to represent various periods of Texas history. On the beam supports are painted symbols for ethnicities that represented the population of Texas in 1937.
Building rooms such as the Abbey Church of Sainte-foy in France marked the Romanesque period shown here in figure 1.2. The round arches of the windows are continued on the inside of the church. It also has beautiful arches and high vaulted ceilings. Popular designs for the Romanesque period were massiveness, thick stone walls, round arches, and barrel-vaulted stone ceilings (Getlein 386). Figure 1.2 exterior Figure 1.2
In 1937, Archbishop James Charles McGuigan, who was Ordinary of the Archdiocese from 1934 until 1971, redecorated the Cathedral's interior. The present paintings, murals, achievements of arms and symbols which adorn the vaults and walls of the Cathedral date from that time. A number of changes in the Cathedral's interior were begun in 1980 under Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter and his Cathedral Rector, Monsignor Kenneth Robitaille. A new marble high altar, pulpit, and altar of the Blessed Sacrament, decorated in a Gothic style that matches the Cathedral's architecture, were added to a raised sanctuary. A semi-circular oak reredos
1.The El Paso Museum of Art is a large postmodern building with expressive blue accents on the exterior. There is signage as well as banners indicating that the building is the art museum. At the façade of the building there is a large red steel sculpture by Oswaldo Sagastegui, born in Peru in 1936, titled Identidad Geometrica, 2012. The building’s exterior has an emphasis on rectangular forms, vertical and horizontal lines. Concrete was use as a finishing material.
The wall paintings in Tutankhamun’s tomb explain the importance of the afterlife, particularly in relation to the pharaoh himself, and the Egyptian people. Although only his burial room displayed murals upon the wall, the spectacular pictures explain Tutankhamun’s entry into the afterlife and the traditional rituals that were performed. The Opening of the Mouth ceremony is depicted on the north-facing wall of the burial chamber, while the rest of the panel and the opposing wall show Tutankhamun being welcomed to the
Krystal Howard Core art history #1 : Khafre enthroned, 4th Dynasty Egypt, c.2520 BCE. Diorite (north site gneiss), height 5’6 1/8”. #2 : Brooklyn College Museum, Kneeling Statue of Senenmut, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 , joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose 111( circa 1478-1458 B.C) , From Armant, Granite #3 : The similarities between these two pieces of art work are there both from Egyptian Art and from the old and middle kingdom. I chose these two sculptures because they were both made from Charles Edwin Wilbur fund and I wanted to see some of his art work and how he depicted one from another. If you look at Khafre throne he has a lot of symbols around it as well as the kneeling statue of senenmut.
The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock which the pyramid was built on but not finished. The Queens chamber and the Kings chambers are higher. There is so much stone mass in the pyramid that the main temputure is the average tempurture of the earth. While building their was two limestones used soft limestone and Hard limestone. Khufu was the son of Queen Hetepheres and King Snefru.
RESEARCH CULTURAL ICONS AND SOCIAL HISTORY The Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC by the pharaoh Khafra, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza.The Great Sphinx is a large human-headed lion that was carved from a mound of natural rock. It is located in Giza where it guards the front of Khafra's pyramid. The greatest monumental sculpture in the ancient world, the Sphinx is carved out of a single ridge of stone 240 feet (73 meters) long and 66 feet (20 meters) high. The sphinx is built of soft sandstone and would have disappeared long ago had it not been buried for so long. It was the first time that a pharaoh had been represented in this way with the body of a lion, even though this animal had symbolised royalty ancient