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  • altarpiece was rendered as a pure landscape. The cross, viewed obliquely ... of his literary friends. For example, a landscape showing a ruined abbey ...
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  • blend of Tantric Hindu and Jain temple architecture. These represent seemingly ... == Architecture == The Khajuraho temples, constructed with spiral superstructures ...
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  • portraits, and his interest shifted to landscape painting. Cole moved to ... recognized as America's leading landscape painter. Cole spent the ...
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  • structure that included an English landscape-garden. The result, Mont ... . Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Retrieved June 4, 2007. ...
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  • Indian rock-cut architecture has more examples than any other form ... Rock-cut architecture defines the practice of creating a structure ...
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  • Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape. ... temple de Vat Phu. Vat Nokor. L'architecture interprétée dans les ...
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  • of distinguished American architects and landscape architects, including Burnham ... City," it popularized neoclassical architecture in a monumental and rational ...
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  • Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked ... some references to traditional Scottish architecture. The project that helped ...
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  • A masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and ... Prakash. 2007. A Global History of Architecture. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wilandey ...
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  • of visitors who admire its spare architecture, exotic scenery and ancient ... The indigenous Saharan architecture of older sectors of the city features ...
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  • minaret, one of the finest examples of architecture during the Ghurid Period ... to halt that danger. The archaeological landscape around Jam also includes ...
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  • uses the barrel vault, widely used in Roman architecture. ... The first definite relation of architecture and sculpture appears ...
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  • [[Image:Landscape marble skyline.jpg|225px|right|thumb|Natural patterns on the polished surface of "landscape marble" can resemble ...
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  • School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1904 to 1910. and ... of aerial views rendering the familiar landscape into an abstraction..." ...
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  • der Rohe. Inspired by Europe’s modern architecture, Johnson and his friends ... In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA ...
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  • Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a ... A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Oxford University ...
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  • A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Oxford University ... simplicity and abstraction, both in architecture and painting, by using ...
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  • ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death ... term applied to a style of medieval architecture (Gothic architecture) ...
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  • * Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (DHLA). n.d. [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/courses/HORT217/Nomenclature/description ...
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  • In architecture and civil engineering, construction refers to the ... *Landscape architecture ==References== *Allen, Edward and Joseph Iano ...
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  • things. He created a new language for architecture of the modern age. ... the retreat, like much of Wright's architecture, blends organically with ...
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  • style gave way to Baroque art. Baroque architecture, sculpture, and painting ... == Architecture == Baroque Architecture [[Image:Santa Susanna (Rome ...
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  • to exposure. It is therefore popular in architecture and has been used to make ... of unusual shape are sometimes used as landscape decoration. ...
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  • the visitor face-to-face with the people, the landscape, and the lifestyles of a dramatically different time. In keeping with its founder's ...
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  • Created with convict labor, the impressive architecture, delightful ... paths, fences, fountains and other landscape features were restored. ...
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  • the Staaatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that ... A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, second ed. (Oxford: ...
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  • during the first century C.E. Their architecture is famous for blending ... style that harmonizes with the landscape. Some, such as the halls ...
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  • While early European open air museums focus on architecture, later ... originally in regions where wooden architecture prevailed, as wooden structures ...
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  • of Spanish and Latin American architecture to indigenous architecture ... best example of the strength of that architecture. The unique architectural ...
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  • The impressionists completely altered the landscape of art, introducing new ... on a flat canvas surpasses earlier landscape paintings in its powerful ...
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  • within the tradition of Chinese architecture, and showed early Buddhist ... Buddhist paintings of the Goryeo period, landscape painting in the first portion ...
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  • of humanity and nature in the Italian landscape and the beauty of Italian ... and sculptural density. The entire landscape is on level ground, with ...
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  • includes painting, poetry, calligraphy, architecture, pottery, sculpture, bronzes ... | Architecture || Landscape architecture || Chinese architecture || - ...
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  • was matched by his creations in architecture, both in buildings and ... detail of Versailles, including the architecture, decorations, and landscape ...
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  • from the late seventeenth century. The architecture provides a vivid illustration ... Landscape architect E. Stautemans originated the idea and created ...
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  • 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, famous for designing ... to be the first full-time landscape architecture firm in Brookline ...
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  • to study the masters of classic art, architecture, and literature. he traveled to Spain to study art and architecture. With World War I raging ...
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  • periods of prosperity. The current town landscape includes architectural ... Magdeburg's rich history is recorded in its architecture and ...
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  • was in mathematics, art, and classical architecture. In 1435, Alberti wrote ... in the formation of Renaissance architecture. The only buildings Alberti ...
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  • background, visible through its architecture and other characteristics ... *Part of the Sahel, a transitional band of desert, Ndar’s landscape ...
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  • period which began in 1960. The urban landscape clearly reflects elements ... colonial style. Its distinguished architecture led to it being designated ...
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  • many figures and other elements such as a landscape or architectural background ... is present in monumental sculpture and architecture from ancient times to present. ...
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  • also gains attention for its unique architecture and historical importance ... non-Hindu tourists alike for its rich architecture and unique beauty, the ...
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  • North America, and perhaps more Gothic architecture was built during the nineteenth ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...
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  • of agricultural planning, as well as architecture and furniture arrangement ... of the whole scheme of Chinese architecture," and urged fellow ...
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  • in the phenomenally diverse religious and cultural landscape of India. ... Indian architecture took new shape with the advent of Islamic rule ...
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  • area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental ... or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant ...
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  • development under Andre le Notre. English landscape gardens opened a new perspective ... A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Downing's ...
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  • buildings and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer. Brasília was ... or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant ...
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  • well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential ... Graduate." It argued that modern landscape painters--in particular ...
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  • Site, noting it as "an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux ... mask dances, wooden sculpture, and architecture. The past century has ...
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  • are known for their Gothic revival architecture, modeled after Oxford ... The campus was designed in part by noted landscape designers Calvert ...
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  • A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Oxford University ... A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University ...
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  • to an "Iconography of Mediaeval Architecture", to an "Iconography of Mediaeval Architecture," Journal of the ...
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  • temples, as well as a stark, scenic desert landscape. The city is known ... introduction of new styles of art and architecture and the increased opportunities ...
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  • (in the Middle East), described the geo-political landscape of the Hanging Gardens, as he did with much of the known world during the reigns of the first ...
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  • be found in catacombs, on private land or in open landscape. Most tombs reflect a system of religious beliefs, and are used by archaeologists ...
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  • quot; Many aqueducts are raised above the landscape, resembling bridges rather ... Bridges and aqueducts (Excursions into architecture). H. Evelyn. ISBN 023878990X ...
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  • It is an example of the Neoclassical architecture style. ... the Corinthian columns were removed, and landscape designer Russell Page created ...
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  • ca/ Becoming a university: The shifting landscape of postsecondary education ... OJS has a "plug-in" architecture, similar to other community ...
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  • of Civic Design Could Possibly Be." Landscape Architecture. 95(3) (2005): 166-168. *Jackson, W. V. "The French National Library: A Special ...
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  • Urbanism movement, have shown that city architecture and construction can be ... before urbanization occurs. landscape planners are responsible ...
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  • Fractals are also prevalent in African art and architecture. Circular ... * Fractal landscape or Coastline complexity * Enzyme/enzymology (Michaelis ...
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  • Morgan (trans.), 1914, The Ten Books on Architecture, Bk I, (Dover, 1914. ISBN ... architecture, using principles of landscape architecture to achieve a harmonious ...
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  • in Vajrayana Buddhism usually depicts a landscape of the Buddha-land or the ... Tibetan architecture contains Chinese and Indian influences, and reflects ...
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  • thumb|150px|right|Huntington Library, in a landscape setting by Beatrix Farrand]] The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens ...
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  • Rollin in Montmarte to study mathematics and architecture, only to drop out after the first term to pursue painting. Almost a year after leaving ...
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  • Much of its highly crafted early stone architecture is preserved in the foundations ... are many examples of original Inca architecture and engineering that have ...
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  • The original architecture of the College consisted of one very large ... Olmsted, Jr., Boston's preeminent landscape architect at the beginning ...
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  • town planning and urban design with landscape architecture. Their planning went beyond functionality to include art and aesthetics. While natural ...
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  • the fault. Wellington's distinctive landscape is a result of activity ... and Islam to Wellington's religious landscape. There is also a small ...
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  • reactions. Seeing a sublime view of a landscape may give us a reaction ... to Kapila Vatsyayan, Classical Indian architecture, Indian sculpture, Indian ...
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  • and humanities, the social sciences, architecture, communications, and education ... Much of Penn's architecture was designed by Cope & Stewardson ...
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  • Besides his enthusiasm for medieval architecture and trappings, he anticipated ... novel, still present in our literary landscape today. Walpole's novel ...
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  • spread his ideas about domestic organic architecture. These ideas had an enormous ... * A house ought to be constructed in harmony with its landscape, with ...
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  • poetry and examples of early Romanesque architecture were among the outstanding cultural achievements. During the thirteenth century Provence ...
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  • ) itself may actually be named after the cairns that dot its landscape ... defensive earthworks because of the karst landscape's lack of soil. ...
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  • the familiar Baroque fusion of water, architecture and sculpture. ... * Bahamon, Alejandro. 2007. Landscape Architecture: Water Features ...
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  • disposition. Gabriele Bartz, Art and Architecture: Louvre (H. F. Ullman ... to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape. The enigmatic woman is ...
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  • made that he had been studying architecture in France (stated as fact ... taste for the comic dramatists and the architecture of France. ...
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  • the state to celebrate its heritage. Its landscape, largely shaped by the ... southwest, the Western Upland is a rugged landscape with a mix of forest and ...
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  • Romanesque architecture is the term that describes the architecture ... Romanesque architecture is characterized by its massive quality, its ...
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  • Alhambra palace, a gem of Islamic architecture, the loss of which is ... of Muslim Spain littered the Spanish landscape: Santiago, a religious ...
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  • rejected such ideas except for a garden landscape. The hall was thus built ... *Watanabe, Toshio. "Josiah Conder's Rokumeikan: architecture ...
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  • music can affect the political landscape of a nation. The hero/messiah ... Sibelius loved nature; the Finnish landscape largely informed the ...
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  • the traditional Kyoto in favor of newer architecture, such as the controversial ... garden, supposedly designed by the great landscape artist Soami. The rock ...
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  • noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career ... Mumford's 1924 history of American architecture, critic Joel Elias Spingarn ...
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  • as much about sculpture, painting, and architecture, but still more that he ... He painted the angel at the front and the landscape. The difference between ...
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  • the city. He also photographed the wooded landscape of Bohemia, creating some ... #039;s Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture offered plenty. But while ...
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  • their history stands in the incredible architecture found in numerous sites ... phases, based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural ...
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  • |style=Sikh architecture | }} The Harmandir Sahib (Punjabi: ਹਰਿਮੰਦਰ ... of a second parikarma, creating a serene landscape fully consistent with the ...
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  • These flood basalts poured out over the landscape, covering much of southern ... Infill of the Triassic Fundy Basin: Architecture of the Wolfville Formation ...
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  • city is surrounded by a relatively level landscape with fertile ground, used ... and palaces in the style of Stalinist architecture. This process continued ...
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  • silk and paper, calligraphy, ceramics, architecture, oil painting, literature ... and understatement influenced Western architecture and design during the ...
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  • medicine, linguistics, economics, landscape architecture, and pharmacology. ==Overview== Ethnobotany is considered a branch of ethnobiology, ...
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  • much of Dublin's most notable architecture dates from this time and ... With increasing prosperity, modern architecture was introduced, while ...
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  • between 1896 and 1922 by the landscape architecture firm of Olmstead and Sons. Frederick Law Olmstead designed Central Park in New York City ...
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  • Italy's best examples of Baroque architecture, carved in the local red ... ==== Architecture ==== Many cities in Sicily have beautiful examples ...
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  • great works of Tamil literature and architecture. The Chola kings avidly ... Kaveri and its tributaries dominate the landscape of generally flat country ...
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  • for the first known use of columns in architecture. ===Middle Era=== ... fields, for example, architecture, landscape architecture and industrial design ...
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