,.kMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475 and dies on February 18, 1564. He is truly the greatest italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer to have ever lived. Michelangelo never liked to consider himself a painter, he preferred to be revered for his work as an architect in the later years of his life. The Sistine Chapel is known worldwide and is the most famous chapel in the official residence of the Pope in Vatican city. Michelangelo’s representation of the Genesis covers twelve thousand square feet and took him four years to paint the amazing frescos.
Under the greatly designed top of the inner dome is the Golden Gallery. When the cathedral was first built, Sir Christopher Wren’s son intended to decorate the interior of the dome with mosaics. However, during that time and under that cultural background, this type of art was considered as new and challenging, and was eventually rejected by the society. Therefore, this proposal was replaced by the paintings that illustrate the life of St Paul, which are completed by Sir James Thornhill. Instead of simply separating the different stories with drawn frames like many cathedrals did, Thornhill cleverly used the shape of the dome and the technique of shading to provide a pseudo morph of stereoscopic arches.
The Cathedral of Notre Dame is one of the most important examples of Gothic architecture. It plays a major role in the story of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame.’ The Film director of the 1923 movie makes the audience have a very different take on the Cathedral than a historian such as Stoddard would have people view the structure. Whitney Stoddard and Wallace Worsley portray the same building but in dramatically different ways because if the different set of circumstances through which they “use” the building. The director of the 1923 movie adaptation of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ Wallace Worsley, uses the Cathedral as the setting for the film. The architectural significance is not as important as being able to transform the Cathedral into a sign of the oppression of Quasimodo.
Whereas the meaning of the word “prophet” is known around the world today, the term “sibyl” is one that is seemingly foreign in modern times. This mysterious identity of what a sibyl truly is leads to their captivating presence in the Sistine Chapel. Vague mention of sibyls was first made in the early 4th century by the Roman Christian author Lactantius.1 In the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, sibyls were first presented in varying forms of artwork, but never to the extent in which Michelangelo portrayed them. It was radical at the time of Michelangelo’s creation that the sibyls were of equal status with the prophets. During this time of shifting theological beliefs throughout
The Basilica of Saint Mary: Its Influences The United States of America’s first basilica, the Basilica of Saint Mary, happens to be in our very backdoor of Minnesota (Chiat 22). It is a grand sight that cannot be missed when driving east bound from the west suburbs before reaching the underground highway 94 tunnel. Furthermore, the Basilica of Saint Mary was constructed between 1907 and 1915 (Basilica 1), but does not lack the history and tradition of its well known ancestors of the 11th/12th century. It was also honored by Pope Pius IX and designed by a French Architect by the name of Emmanuel L. Masqueray who has won a number of architectural awards both in the United States and in Europe (Masquray 2). As reflected by its designer, the Basilica of Saint Mary is nothing short of magnificent - it also has adopted numerous architectural designs from its early Romanesque predecessors.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST One important result of the Norman Conquest of England was the creation of many close links between England and Normandy, but that does not mean that the English were isolated from the continent before 1066. Edward the Confessor, who spent his youth in Normandy as an exile, had a great admiration for the Normans which he showed in a preference for Norman advisers and by modelling his new church at Westminster on the recently constructed abbey of Jumièges. After 1046 there were never fewer than three foreign bishops holding English sees, and for the last five years of Edward’s reign the bishop of London was a Norman and four other sees had bishops from Lorraine. English churchmen attended some of the reforming councils in France and Italy, and the requirement that each new archbishop had to collect his pallium from the pope ensured that these leaders could not escape some contact with the papal reform movement. Ealdred was, indeed, forced to surrender his bishopric of Worcester before he could obtain papal recognition of his elevation to the see of York.
The two main competitors were two master goldsmiths,Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi, who has the support of Cosimo de Medici. Finally, Brunelleschi won and received the commission. The noticeable point is that it was the first 'octagonal' dome in history to be built without a temporary wooden supporting frame. The building of such a masonry dome posed many technical problems. Brunelleschi decided to follow the pantheon strategy but all the information about its construction was forgotten.
Clearly the Salk Institute is a research laboratory that warrants these considerations when selecting building materials. The materials that make up the Salk Institute consist of concrete, teak, lead, glass, and steel. In my opinion these materials address the laboratories demands by being easy to maintain, as well as being durable allowing the Salk Institute to be built to last. I really enjoyed Kahn’s attention to detail when it came to the concrete work. Once the concrete was set, Kahn allowed no further finishing touches in order to attain the pinkish glow of "pozzuolanic" concrete.
From the outside, the building may appear very modest but it is in the inside that it is alive. Le Corbuiser’s intention in build this building was to provide the monks with two fundamental qualities which is silence and peace. This building entirely is created using the concrete. Rough concrete stained by time give an exterior unfamiliar to religious structures. The panes of glass located on the three exterior faces, on the other hand, in the garden-court of the cloister, the fenestration is composed of large concrete elements reaching from floor to ceiling, perforated with glazed voids and separated from one another by "ventilators": vertical slits covered by metal mosquito netting and furnished with a pivoting shutter.
They had a new ways of building, for example King Lalibela had various churches carved out of volcanic rock. This was ingenious because no matter the weather conditions these buildings were literally part of the earth and the weather could do little to it. (Document 7). They also built enclosures with surrounding rock walls with one entrance only. The idea behind this was to impress all their guests by the architectures royalty.