A Grand Knight for the Arts Lee-Ann Plott The Jubilate Guild's third annual "Knight's Follies" will be held on Saturday, February 26th, but the "Follies" will be fronting a new name. The event has been renamed "Jubilate Knight - A Grand Celebration for the Arts," in order to convey the evening's true light. Last year, the Jubilate Guild received feedback that 'Follies' portrayed a different event than what the Guild held. In the words of Christi Mobley, President of the Jubilate Guild, "For many, 'Follies' meant a talent show only." But the event is a talent show, fundraiser, and much more.
Pugin obtained his inspiration from visiting other European Countries, especially Lubeck in North East Germany where the Roman Catholic Church was the predominant style and enabled Pugin to incorporate their architectural designs into his own work. (St Chad’s and Religious Art, AA100 DVD) St Chad’s took 2 years to build in 1841 and was the first Catholic cathedral since the reformation and Pugin was appointed by Bishop Thomas Walsh to revive the Gothic architectural style. This Cathedral is also extremely unique as had three generations of Pugin architects working on it up to the 1930s. Following Pugin’s conversion to Roman
There were established standards for efficient construction: for steel 3 1/2 stories per week; for brick walls, a story a day; and for stonework, one to two stories a week. 1929 Starret Brothers and Eken had maintained a fast pace in the erection of the Manhattan Company building at 40 Wall Street. But as Paul Starret explained in his autobiography: ” it was clear to us at once that the Empire State could never finish the building on time by any such progress. We decided to discard all these plans of operations and determined to erect the Empire State at the rate of a story a day”. In addition to the steel frame, construction materials included 62,000 cubic yards of concrete; 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite, which comprised most of the exterior; 10,000 square feet of Rose Famosa and Estrallante marble; 6,500 windows, whose spandrels were sandblasted to blend their color into the tone of the windows; and 300,000 square feet of Hauteville and Rocheron marble for the elevator lobbies and the corridors on the office floors The Empire State Building is an office building.
And once his career started he travelled around for ideas, At the age of 38 he married his cousin Marry French and had a baby girl name Margaret French Cresson a year later, it wasn’t long before Margaret followed in her father’s footsteps and became a sculpture too. She sculptured only marble busts and portrait heads. Daniel had created a lot of statues using a variety of materials; clay, plasters, marble and bronze. When Daniel finished his creations they would always be significant, to him, America or the world. Alma Mater is a bronze sculpture.
With years of the abandoned fountain, Pope Clement XIII had begun further renovations on the fountain and later had commissioned, Nicola Salvi to further carry on the completion of the fountain in 1732. The fountain took 30 years to construct,
There he became a part of the goldsmith’s guild, which is where evidence of his plans for his printing press first became noted. According to a witness: “one witness states that, in his capacity of goldsmith, he had supplied in 1436 "printing requisites" to the value of 100 gulden; mention is also made of a press constructed by Konrad Saspach”3. Though evidence shows that he had started development of the printing press, he wouldn’t complete it for many years to come. The first concrete evidence of the completion of the printing press in came in 1448 when Gutenberg convinced a wealthy business man by the name of Johannes Fust to become his partner and fund his 42-line bible project1. It took a total loan of 1600 guilders from Fust and 7 years of work, making it the year of 1455, before the 42-line bible was finally completed and all 180 copies printed.
Writing began in March of 1763 and was finished by January of 1764. Becarria was a mere 26 years old when he was finished his essay. This essay became famous, and some of the basic guidelines are still used today. Famous people, like Thomas Jefferson, was so inspired by Cesare’s work that he was known to quote him on several occasions. The essay was a devastating attack on the prevailing systems for the administration of criminal
Robert Owen was born on the 14th May 1771. His father sent him to work at a drapery in Lincolnshire at the age of ten. He spent three years in Stamford but then moved to London. He stayed in that job until 1787 when he found work at a large drapery in Manchester. He was in Manchester when he heard about the success Richard Arkwright was having at a textile factory in Cromford.
Galileo Galilei was the oldest of seven children. He was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. The father of Galileo wanted him to pursue a profession in medicine because the occupation brought more of an income on the high side. Galileo went to go study in a Jesuit monastery at eleven years. Galileo told his father that he wanted be a monk after four years.
In 1401, there was a competition for artists to enter in a design for the doors of the baptistery that would be facing Florence Cathedral. The two surviving entries come from Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti. Both made a bronze quatrefoil scene using foreshortening, typology, and classical references. Of these two entries, one was chosen the winner. The winner was none other than the youngest artist in the competition, Lorenzo Ghiberti.