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Italian architecture
Italian architecture the several styles employed in Italy after the Roman period. The Romanesque Italy's Romanesque architecture (12th cent.) reveals the first use of the groined vault with projecting ribs. It is also typified by the development of a type of basilica having side galleries.... Read more |
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Internet Architecture Board
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Gothic architecture and art
Gothic architecture and art structures (largely cathedrals and churches) and works of art first created in France in the 12th cent. that spread throughout Western Europe through the 15th cent., and in some locations into the 16th cent. The Nature of the Gothic The essential character of the Gothic... Read more |
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Anglo-Saxon art and architecture
Anglo-Saxon art and architecture now only survives fragmentarily and even what remains is not necessarily representative of what once existed. Our view of architecture, for example, is distorted by the near-total loss of all wooden buildings and by the Norman destruction of all pre-Conquest... Read more |
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University of Southern California
University of Southern California at Los Angeles; coeducational; chartered and opened 1880. The university has a liberal arts college and a graduate school as well as schools of architecture, urban and regional planning, engineering, safety and systems management, business administration, cinema... Read more |
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art
art The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are painting ; sculpture ; drawing ; photography , and architecture . Bibliography: See also articles on specific artists, periods, styles, regions, genres, and graphic media.... Read more |
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French art
French art the artistic production of the region that constitutes the historic nation of France. See also French architecture . Early History Artistic remains in France date back to the Paleolithic age (see Paleolithic art ), and abundant examples attest to the art of the periods of Roman and... Read more |
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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner , 1902-83, English architectural historian, b. Germany. Influenced by Heinrich Wölfflin , Pevsner contended in his many works that art must be considered within its historical and social context. For many years Pevsner was art editor of Penguin Books. He was knighted in... Read more |
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column
column vertical architectural support, circular or polygonal in plan. A column is generally at least four or five times as high as its diameter or width; stubbier freestanding masses of masonry are usually called piers or pillars, particularly those with a rectangular plan. In fully developed... Read more |
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German art and architecture
German art and architecture artistic works produced within the region that became politically unified as Germany in 1871 generally followed the stylistic currents of Western Europe. The Carolingian and Ottonian Periods Carolingian architecture and art are commonly considered to have been the... Read more |
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