Matera
Matera , city (1991 pop. 54,919), capital of Matera prov., in Basilicata, S Italy, in the Apennines. It is an agricultural and industrial center with woolen textile mills and ceramics and food-processing factories. A Romanesque cathedral and a castle (both 13th cent.) are in the city.
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What to do in Beuel. (Germany)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...your car window and get what overview you could. But if you had to drive through the place for some reason, the late Romanesque cathedral was interestingly transitional, and, while there, you could walk through the flower market, past Bonn's Rathaus (or town...
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SALZBURG.(Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, architectural history, Austria)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...twenty-eight, and he determined to create an Italian Renaissance city north of the Alps on German soil. By chance the old Romanesque cathedral caught fire and he allowed it to burn down so that he could replace it with the great Italianate cathedral set in a spacious...
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VISITING MEDIAEVAL FRANCE TODAY.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...southwest desolate. Nobles on each side settled in for a long struggle by building fortified towns, the bastides; many Romanesque cathedral and abbey churches were retrofitted with extra layers of outer walls to protect them from wayward warriors and freebooters...
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How many for the tango?(view)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...become a focus for the chirpies. Watch him in the traditionally most modest of the schools-that of Lund University (as in Romanesque cathedral/Tetra packaging/Ericsson phones) and begin to pull in the world. Add weird Poles, Zaha, Asymptote and a stream of zany...
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'Amadeo Modigliani, Jew': Modigliani is set in his Jewish context in an exhibition that has just moved from New York to Ontario.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...They also reveal his influences. A head (1911-12, Latner Family Collection, Toronto) looks like something from a French Romanesque cathedral, while others recall African, Egyptian, or Cambodian figures. Here we find the slanting eye sockets and conical noses...
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Pentecostal power: conversions in El Salvador.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/14/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Pentecostal strength. It was symbolic that such a crowd would assemble in this park, between the towering shade of the Romanesque cathedral and the liberationist and architecturally modern Ecclesia de Rosario. Politicians, police officers and pastors from numerous...
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Matera
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Matera, Basilicata/Italy May be derived from the Latin materia ‘materials’ or ‘timber for building’; or from a pre‐Roman root mat‐ associated with ‘height’. The town overlooks a deep ravine.
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Basilicata
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the capital of Basilicata, which is divided into Potenza and Matera provs. (named for their capitals). The region is crossed by...plant is located. Natural gas also has been discovered near Matera. Basilicata corresponds to most of ancient Lucania and to part...
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Cristo si e Fermato a Eboli
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Italiana, Action Films, Soci é t é Nouvelle des Etablissements; colour, Technoscope; running time: 155 minutes. Filmed in Matera, Craco, Rome, 1978. Producers: Franco Cristaldi, Nicola Carraro; associate producers: Yves Gasser, Yves Peyrot; screenplay...
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Quaroni, Ludovico
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...the Tiburtino Quarter, Rome (1950—with C. Aymonino , Mario Ridolfi , and others), and La Martella Housing and Church, Matera (1951–2—with others). He published numerous works, including La Torre de Babele (The Tower of Babel—1967...
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Nucleolus
Book article from: Biology
...regulatory proteins, export of other nonribosomal RNAs, and control of cellular senescence or aging. see also ; ; ; ; ; A. Gregory Matera Bibliography Olson, M.O., M. Dundr, and A. Szebeni. "The Nucleolus: An Old Factory with Unexpected Capabilities." Trends in...
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