|
Islam: The Next American Religion?
|
Wolfe, Michael
Arab American News
06-15-2001
ISLAM: THE NEXT AMERICAN RELIGION?
BY MICHAEL WOLFE
The U.S. began as a haven for Christian outcasts. But what religion fits
our current zeitgeist? The answer may be Islam.
Americans tend to think of their country as, at the very least, a nominally
Christian nation. Didn't the Pilgrims come here for freedom to practice
their Christian religion? Don't Christian values of righteousness under
God, and freedom, reinforce America's democratic, capitalist ideals?
True enough. But there's a new religion on the block now, one that fits the
current zeitgeist ...
|
THE PALAZZO MEDICI.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Tall and imposing, the Palazzo Medici towered over nearby buildings. Designed by famed Florentine architect Michelozzo Michelozzi, it featured more than 40 rooms, a chapel, and a spacious inner courtyard and garden. While on a visit to...
|
|
In pursuit of Fra Carnevale: Susannah Woolmer follows the detective trail laid out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's rewarding investigation into a mysterious renaissance artist.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...The elaborate nature of its rigorously articulated architecture and its references to Maso di Bartolomeo and Michelozzo Michelozzi provide the most compelling evidence of Fra Carnevale's authorship for Christiansen. The complex architecture...
|
|
|
What is a renaissance garden? Garden historians use the terms 'renaissance', 'mannerist' and baroque' freely--and often interchangeably, Tim Richardson argues that such art-historical classifications fail to distinguish between the many traditions of garden making in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries--traditions that were often strongly regional, and overlapped in time.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...of the Medici, c. 1445-62 Michelozzi Michelozzo (1396-1472) was employed...lapse of some 150 years since Michelozzo's work at the villas of Trebbio...Cafaggiolo (Fig. 2), where Michelozzo worked in about 1450, is an...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Islam: The Next American Religion?"
