Embrace the moment

Embrace the moment
Dead Horse Point, Moab

Saturday, August 9, 2014

European Artist

Michelangelo (1475-1564), Italy
Sistine Chapel, David, pieta, the last judgement

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Vinci
Mona Lisa, The last Supper

Christopher Wren (1632-1723)
St Paul Catherdral

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Paris
The thinker

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Paris
Water Lily Pond,

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
La Sagragada familia

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Zundert
The starry night

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Malaga
Guernica

Edward Munch (1863-1944), Norway
The scream


Geology & Geography

1. Geology Map
2. Topography

3. River

Architecture

Greek
Year: 900BC-1st Centruy
Origin: Greece
Character: temples
Example:Parthenon


Roman

Year: 509 BC-4th Century
Origin:Rome
Character:vaults, arches
Example:Collaseum


Romanesque

Year: 6-10th Century
Character: massive quality, thick walls, round arches, sturdy piersgroin vaults, large towers and decorative arcading
Example: Maria laach abbey



Gothic

Year:12-16th Century
Origin: France
Character: Pointed Arch, ribbed vault and flying buttress
Example: Chatres Cathedral


Renaissance
Year: 15-17th Century
Origin: Florence
Character: Symmetry, proportion, geometry.Orderly arrangements of columnspilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes,niches and aedicules
Example:St. Peter Basillica


Baroque

Year:16th Century
Origin: Rome
Character: new explorations of form, light and shadow and dramatic intensity.pear-shaped domes, large-scale ceiling frescoes, Fragmentary or deliberately incomplete architectural elements and in churches, broader naves and sometimes given oval forms.
Example: St. Nicholas