2. What do we know about the people who built
2. What do we know about the people who built
Dakota McNany Gerontology Sophomore 3. Short Answer Questions (10 points each, 20 points total). Choose two out of four. It is expected the length of the text for each question is about 150-200 words, single spaced. D. Why is the Knossos Palace laid out in a rather irregular form?…
Approximately ten miles from downtown Atlanta, one thousand six hundred eighty-three feet above sea level stands Stone Mountain. Stone Mountain is, simply, an enormous rock that is made of granite. The mountain can be seen from Kennesaw Mountain (West), Amicalola Falls State Park (North), and Mount Yonah (Northeast). On the northwest side of the mountain, there are currently faces of three men carved into the granite: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis.…
The searchers went back to the village to inform the commander what they had seen the fisher men went back with them when they arrived at the village they told the commander what they saw and by the look on the commander’s face he was very impressed. The commander told the searchers to take him to the cliff when the commander arrived he saw the horse cliff. He imagined a horse drinking water he wondered and wondered for hours what this creating meant but he didn’t come to any conclusions. He sent the village’s priest to the cliff to examine the cliff and try to see if he could talk to the gods and figure out this mysterious horse cliff.…
He had to find water, so he followed all the signs, wind and soil, until he came across a stream teaming with fish. He had found water and dinner! He cupped his hands and scooped some water to his mouth. Since it was nearly nightfall, he speared a fish and made a fire. He decided to stay by the stream until morning so he could have access to…
The Dome of the Rock has a substantial egg molded vault that is principally made of a gold shaded material. The building is octagonal and has exceptionally detailed outlines around the whole outside. The building appears to have an attention on symmetry and repetition. The shading plans and outlines are rehashed around the entire building. The outlines and shapes are fundamentally blue, green, and yellow.…
There are many different opinions about Stonehenge for example people believe the rocks were transported by the ancient people dragging them hundreds of miles. There are many different theories of the construction of Stonehenge. Tiner gives an example of how they found tools when they dug around Stonehedge. The uses of Stonehedge are very broad, I believe the reason why Stonehedge was built was to compute the dates of Solar and lunar eclipses. Overall, I thought both authors did an excellent job at describing the mysteries of Stonehedge.…
Along the south coast of Peru in the 3rd – 5th century CE, people from area drew the outlines of animals, plants, and geometric shapes into the sand, now known as the Nazca geoglyphs. Unlike most art of the time, these were on a monumental scale as some were 400+ feet long and straight lines were continuous for 1,000+ feet, stopping at a pile of stones. This pile of stones is important because it links to a ritual of Peruvians still in use today – ceremonial walking. Just as modern ceremonial walkers, the people who created these geoglyphs, “earth writings,” may have later followed the paths they created in the sand, driving the sand further to emphasize the figures drawn.…
The sculpture I chose to write about is Earthworks. Earthworks are a large scale of modern sculptures created partially by environment and partially by man. The larger the sculpture the more visible they are from above. One famous earthwork is by Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty. It was created on the Great Salt Lake in Utah.…
England is probably the most historic place I’ve ever been to. One of the places that we went to was Stonehenge. Stonehenge is an ancient Druid religious site. Its made up of tall stones stood up on their ends in a…
J. Philip McAleer’s “St. Mary’s (1820-1830), Halifaz: An Early Example of the Use of Gothic Revival Forms in Canada” summarizes how the design elements of St. Mary’s allowed the church to transform physically and spiritually, through design elements such as pointed arches. The interior of St. Mary’s is composed of multiple arches that intricately support other design elements, such as crosses and crowns. The exterior design was simple, incorporating proportionated pointed arches and and a single tower. The work successfully allows readers to visualize the unique design elements by providing multiple illustrations and descriptive explanations.…
Describe the role the arts, crafts and material play in the Indian Summer, in Van der Nüll's essay and in the excerpt from The Stones of the Abby. The Stones of the Abbey: With its physicality expressed through clay, the site of the St. Clotilda monastery, reflects the inner anxiety and instability of the humans populating the abbey. The monk, and narrator, journaling the Stones of the Abbey, describes how the materials – their imperfection and irregularity – serve a challenge to be overcome, both externally in the building, as internally in their hearts. Here, the architecture of the abbey plays a definite role in “reveal[ing] its soul and its quality. The magnitude of our faith, the power of our Order, the holiness of our monks will be reflected directly in the purification or the decadence of our art,” the narrator states.…
Seeing nothing, I searched for the snake on both sides of the tall, scorched golden grass and rocks for approximately thirty seconds until I realized my brother was insane—there was nothing near us. We all decided it would be best just to forget about so we continued up the hill. When we got to the top of the mountain, there was a bench made of various sized slate grey, oval rocks; it was ancient and slowly deteriorating but surprisingly stable. It looked like the Native Americans put it together before Columbus took all their land in 1492. As I assembled myself onto the bench, I admired the opening of the trees that was roughly ten feet wide; I was seeing the world at just the right…
Venus of Willendorf, Paleolithic Period, c. 24,000-22,000 B.C.E. Limestone painted with red ochre, 11.1 cm tall. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna The Venus of Willendorf is the most well known sculpture mobiliary art of the Paleolithic period. It was discovered in 1908 outside the small Austrian village of Willendorf by josef Szombathy, an Austro-Hungarian archaeologist. It is named after the Roman goddess of love, Venus, and since it was discovered in Willendorf, it came to be known as Venus of Willendorf.…
He includes details about the “smooth spot that was covered with graceful circles and radiating lines” and “the long, ruffled trail that shone like silver”.…
The Parthenon has long been considered a paradigm of successful Classical architecture. The construction began roughly around 500 BC and it is generally considered the zenith of the Doric order. During that time, almost every Greek city-state had an acropolis because Greek was an warring state. The Parthenon happened to be laid upon the acropolis of Athens. Its decorative sculptures were considered the pinnacle of Greek classical art.…