The Fitzwilliam cup-and-stand set has a stronger blue tint in its glaze color and is not as flawless as the Injong tomb pieces, but it clearly demonstrates a comparable dedication to craftsmanship. The stand has a petal-shaped, extended rim, dome-like cup pedestal and a high flared foot. It is decorated with a celadon glaze pooling bright green where the lines recede and spur marks on the inside of the foot. [pic] Wine ewe Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) Early 12th Century Korea Stoneware with celadon glaze over mishima decoration of geese, waterbirds, and reeds, uses the
The current building was designed by famous architect Sir Cristopher Wren, like much of historical London. It was consecrated in 1708, but all construction works finished in 1710 The dome reaches a height of 111 meter (366 ft) and weights about 66,000 ton. Eight arches support the dome. On top of the dome is a large lantern with a weight of 850 ton. The first gallery, the Whispering Gallery, just inside the dome, is renowned for its acoustics.
The Chinese Bronze vessel is called a li, it has three legs that is covered with animal like mask motifs with characteristics of ears, eyebrows, horns and protruding pairs of eyes. This vessel has an incised band, the lid has small lug handles when removed and inverted was used as a serving plate. Looks like the top of the vessels legs take the form of a dragon face with no body and no lower jaw. If you look at the legs the top of it has the dragon with no jaw, but if you look at the leg sideways you can see a dragon uniformly. These motifs on the vessel are called taotie and the bottom of the legs has rings.
There are two different pictures of the exterior and interior of Hagia Sophia on pages 156 Figure 7.4 and page 193 Figure 8.13in the book Experience Humanities by Roy T. Mathews, F. Dewitt Platt and Thomas F.X. Noble. The Hagia Sophia design constructed by combining three basilical plans with the dome plan design (Hagia Sophia: The Place of Holy Wisdom). The structure was based on Byzantine Empire with a combination of Early Greek and Roman style along with Asian/Oriental influences (Hagia Sophia: The Place of Holy Wisdom). The construction of the large dome was on a square base rather than having a vaulted roof (192).
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.
Within a few months of the Battle of Hastings William fitz Osbern, lord of Breteuil in Normandy, was created earl of Hereford by William the Conqueror, and was given the task of subduing the southern Welsh borderlands. Before his death in 1071 he had built the rectangular keep, which still forms the core of the castle today. It is the earliest dateable secular stone building in Britain, but is very similar to other 11th-century hall-keeps in Normandy. Notice that the builders used several bands of red Roman tile in the construction, probably robbed from the ruins of Caerwent. The small round-headed windows in the ground floor are also original features.
The Hand of Man was first published in January 1903 in the inaugural issue of Camera Work. Stieglitz showed that a gritty urban landscape could have an atmospheric beauty and a symbolic value as potent as those of an unspoiled natural landscape (Paul J. pt. 1). The title expresses how the landscape went through a modern transformation and how the photography itself was a
The Chinese industrialized a lodestone compass to specify direction. The spoon (pointer) was made of lodestone which was naturally magnetic, and carved into the shape of the Big Dipper, while the plate was of bronze with the circular center representing heaven, and the square shape representing earth. The compass created by the Chinese pointed to the South, while the compasses of today point to the North. It pointed to the South for reasons that included celestial alignment and the natural alignment of objects or feng shui. The horse harness was invented around 220- 581 AD in late 4th century BC.
Pre-Christian drawings of the early flute appear on Roman artifacts. Additional works of art, including two Etruscan reliefs which date from the second and third centuries B.C., clearly showed cross flutes being played. Theobald Boehm, a German flute maker and musicin, developed the first cylindrical metal flute in 1832. This was the most widely used model in the 20th century. The cylindrical Boehm flute is made of metal or wood and has thirteen or more tone holes controlled by a system of padded keys which Boehm created.
Unification of Germany This article deals with the unification of 1871. For the unification of West and East Germany in 1990, see German reunification. The German Empire of 1871-1918. By excluding the German part of the multinational Austrian Empire, this geographic construction represented a "little Germany" solution. The formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state occurred on 18 January 1871 at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors.