Houses were built from stone walls and roofed with pole and thatch. This was the basic home for lower level Mayan people. However, the Mayan kings lived in huge homes like palaces (Sharer, 111). Pyramids were severely inclined with decorative foundations and stairs that were not able to be climbed. Facades were also made with copious amounts of decorations and serpentine elements that integrated the rain god, Chaac (Mayan Architectural Styles).
Sumerian male worshiper, 2750-2600 B.C. Many different forms of sculpture were used in Asia, with many pieces being religious art based on Hinduism and Buddhism (Buddhist art) and greco-Buddhist art. A great deal of Cambodian Hindu sculpture is preserved at Angkor, however organized looting has had a heavy impact on many sites around the country. In Thailand, sculpture was almost exclusively of Buddha images. Many Thai sculptures or temples are gilded, and on occasion enriched with inlays.
Vesuvius in 79 A.D. As well as some design elements and details. Entering the villa the first room I walk into is the atrium. The atrium is the main public room in a Roman house. In the middle of the atrium is an impluvium, which is like a small pool. And it has an open ceiling above it so it can catch rain water.
The second temple is the Great Stupa, a dome-shaped Buddhist monument from the Maurya Dynasty in Sanchi, India. The structure was built sometime from the 3rd C BCE to 1st C Ce,. Both of these monuments have many similarities and differences in structure and symbolism, but the dominant theme that ties them together is the idea that they connecting our real with the heavenly realm. These buildings came from completely different cultures, yet they have surprisingly similar styles. For example, both buildings require the visitor to first enter though a series of columns before reaching the main attraction.
• Theme: The Sacred Realm • People throughout history have turned to a world we cannot see except through faith, the sacred realm of the spirit (Getlein, 2010, p. 49). Amida Nyorai is a spiritual Buddha leader. The statue Amida Nyorai was created in the 11th century. Many Buddhists come to worship at the temple. The sacred realm cannot be seen with human eyes, yet the artists throughout the ages have been asked to create images of gods, goddesses, angels, demons, and all manner of spirit beings (Getlein, 2010, p. 53).
The cenotes facilitated tapping the underground waters of the area. The dates for this settlement vary according to subsequent local accounts: one manuscript gives 415-35 A.D., while others mention 455 A.D. The town that grew up around the sector known as Chichen Viejo already boasted important monuments of great interest: the Nunnery, the Church, Akab Dzib, Chichan Chob, the Temple of the Panels and the Temple of the Deer. They were constructed between the 6th and the 10th centuries in the characteristic Maya style then popular both in the northern and southern areas of the Puuc hills.The second settlement of Chichen-Itza, and the most important for historians, corresponded to the migration of Toltec warriors from the Mexican plateau towards the south during the 10th century. According to the most common version, the King of Tula, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, or Kukulkan as the Maya translated the name, reportedly took the city between 967 A.D. and 987 A.D.Following the conquest of Yucatán a new style blending the Maya and Toltec traditions developed, symbolizing the phenomenon of acculturation.
Buddhism originated in India and spread throughout the country via the Silk Road. The caves at Yungang contain many of the first examples of early Buddhist sculpture in China. The Seated Buddha was carved during the Wei Dynasty. This piece of artwork is over 45 feet tall and carved out of stone.
The mission church of San Luis Obispo is unusual in its design in that its combination of belfry and vestibule is found nowhere else among the California missions. The main nave is short and narrow (as is the case with other mission churches), but at San Luis Obispo there is a secondary nave of almost equal size situated to the right of the altar, making this the only “L” _ shaped mission church among all of the California missions. The mission church today is a parish church of the diocese of Monterey. Father Serra sent an expedition down south to San Luis Obispo to start building the mission. On September 1, 1772 a cross was erected near San Luis Obispo creek and father junipero Serra celebrated the first mass, marking the site as the destination for yet another mission.
The art of Renaissance Era was also dedicated to religion. One of the great architectural works of the Renaissance Era wan Saint Andrea designed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1472, shown here in figure 1.5. Figure 1.5 exterior Figure 1.5
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