Marble Monuments
Marble have been used in some of the historic instances in ancient times. Rome’s Pantheon, Athens’ Parthenon, London’s Marble Arch, Michelangelo’s masterpiece ''David'' and Agra's Taj Mahal are popular examples of it. The Taj Mahal is most popular building in the world and it is known for its beauty. This mausoleum was built for Mumtaz Mahal, third wife to Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1632 to 1653. Extensive use of marble was done in whole structure and its one of the most celebrated monument in the world. The Washington Monument is one of the good example of marble monument. It was built in 1848 to 1884. Marbles from a quarry located near Texas, Maryland was used in the initial construction of the structure.
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Although Eichendorff’s story displays religious elements, the pious facets take on a different form than in Psyche. In “The Marble Statue”, Sunday remains a holy day where evil subsides. God and Satan manifest into the metaphysical through characters, settings, and motifs. Fortunato is a pure character directing Florio towards the path of the righteous man while Donati is a sinister man leading the boy into temptation. The seductress is the embodiment of evil while Bianca is the good. The aspect of religion is demonstrated in a more direct manner in Psyche. The artist abandons a life of art to become a brethren of the covenant where it is proclaimed the Goddess of Art is “a witch who carries towards vanity, towards earthly pleasure”. The good and evil is left to interpretation in “The Marble Statue” while religion in Andersen's tales contains a straightforward portrayal of faith and sin.
Pantheon and Hagia Sophia Pantheon and Hagia Sophia are two extremely outstanding architectural pieces of their times. They have been built according to the traditions of those particular times. The materials used to built these buildings and the purpose for which they were used are all very important aspects and have been briefly covered in this report. Pantheon The statesman Agrippa built pantheon in 27 B.C. Then it was completely rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian. The Pantheon is remarkable for its size, its construction, and its design. The dome was the largest built until modern times. The present structure was probably originally built as a temple for all the pagan gods. We do hear of it as being a law-court and a reception area for Emperor Hadrian meeting his quests too. Some say that the rotunda of the building was once a Roman bath. Due to all this mystery, the Pantheon is often referred to as the Sphinx of Rome. The visitor will probably not appreciate the construction as much as the Flavian amphitheatre, but it is still a great masterpiece of engineering and well worth a visit. Most Roman and Greek temples at the time of the Pantheon's construction were large, colonnaded, rectangular enclosures with sanctuaries situated in their centers. The Pantheon was different. It consisted of a large circular drum topped with a hemispherical dome. It is a masterpiece of both engineering and art a lasting memory of Ancient Rome’s might. Roman architecture is architecture of wall and enclosed tactile space. Individual column with entablature is no longer the basic architectural unity. Spatially, it shows a development from closed, simple space units and regular articulation to more complex spatial relations, more fluid interpenetrati...
The Pantheon is the best preserved Roman building from Ancient Rome.It is the third building and the building was built during Hadrian’s reign; the first Pantheon was commissioned by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (27-25 BCE) and the second one by Domitian (Cartwright “Pantheon”).
The Pantheon was originally commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD) it was then rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian c.125. The Pantheon is one of the most influential architectural designs in history, its pediment, pillars and dome are it most copied elements and their influence can be seen in building all over the world.
From the remains of great civilizations of the past, obelisks are found to be one of the most easily identifiable monuments of all.
Concrete: The Romans invented concrete, a strong and light building material. The Colosseum was built with thousands of tons of concrete, and it is still a popular monument today, enduring milleniums. Concrete is seen as a revolution to comtempary architecture because it is used worldwide today.
Stonehenge is a monument that is located in Wiltshire, England. It is one of the most famous monuments in the world, and is meritorious when it comes to the world’s best monuments. Standing tall in Southern England, the Stonehenge is an arrangement of massive stones that form a circular geometry. No one knows who built it, but medieval tales say that it is the work of Merlin the Wizard, during the age of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. As time passed, it is said that the Romans were responsible for the building of Stonehenge. In more recent times, archaeologists have discovered who really might have built Stonehenge. Archaeologists and scientists now believe that Stonehenge was put together more than 4000 years ago, a long time before Medieval England or the Romans. Modern researchers have come to a new hypothesis: Stonehenge was built by people who lived around the time of the ending of the Stone Age. Although scientists and archeologists have come to some conclusions, no one really knows how this monument was erected. Over time the monument has endured some history, and has given humanity time to discover many things about this mysterious monument known as Stonehenge.
Stone Moves Cypress - To the North of Houston proper, Stone Moves Cypress has got a foothold as Houston’s premiere rock climbing gym. Declaring “You’re never too young or too old to discover something new!” Stone Moves provides an indoor rock climbing center with professional instruction, “routes” of varying degrees of difficulty and a friendly non-judgmental atmosphere—unlike the gym. They even change the climbing paths monthly to ensure you never learn the footholds too well so that it stays fun and spontaneous, from beginner to expert! Wednesdays is a fitness class with a climbing component taught by a certified Personal Trainer and elite climber from 7-8 which is free for members and $12 for non-members. It’s even open to 10 pm Monday-Saturday providing ample opportunity to be fit all week!
The Parthenon in Greece was built on the Acropolis high above the city for the goddess Athena. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and prudent warfare; she was also the protector of the Navy. The temple was built following the war between Greece and Persia and replaced another temple that was destroyed. It is not surprising that they would want to honor this particular goddess during that time. The Parthenon was designed so that the 40-foot interior statue of Athena would be illuminated by the sun on her birthday. The structure was not built to hold very many people and ceremonies took place outside. The rectangular temple was built using post and beam style construction with large columns. The designers of the Parthenon designed it to be balanced
In the 1850’s the innovative generation was building exciting new urban cities, America became known as the nation of innovators. America’s latest invention was the creation of the vertical city. America was creating skyscrapers, elevators and came to have the greatest icon to symbolize the new vertical America. In 1855 the City of New York got the greatest gift ever, The Statue of Liberty. Built by the people of Paris, it had been given to America as the French wished to celebrate the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It had been dropped off on New York Harbor in 214 crates, and broken into 350 pieces. The Statute had one problem; the money it would cost for New York to put the pieces together. With 6 other states in the US trying to steal it away, the City had to find a solution quick.
Monuments are sometimes depicted negatively because of petty things, such as the publicity the monument will receive or how the monument would be destroyed because of natural disaster, as if the circumstances were not beyond one's control. People are forgetting the bigger picture! Monuments should make people feel something, whether it is positive or negative. Monuments honor, teach, and inspire people in their own way. There is a lot of consideration put into monuments to appear as worthless. Monuments like The Crazy Horse Memorial are portrayed badly because no one knows what the man looks like, but the monument honors the North American Indians and people seem to forget that. So when building any kind of monument the site, aesthetics, money, and purpose are some factors that an administrator must take into account.
The Greeks finished building an exquisite temple to their beloved goddess, Athena in the year 432 BCE. (Sayre 60). The name of this enriched, unique temple was the Parthenon. The Parthenon took the Greeks approximately fifteen years to complete and as Pericles stated, it was built to give gratitude to their goddess Athena for the salvation of their city, Athens and all of Greece in the Persian Wars (Sayre 60). It was also a symbol of their power and superiority among other cultures. It was something the Greeks took great pride in and recognized it to a great extent. The Parthenon was built on the highest point of the city of Athens to look over the precious Greek city. On the exterior walls of the Parthenon there was beautiful artwork that adorned the walls, also known as the Parthenon Frieze (“The Parthenon Frieze”, par 1). According to the National Geographic video, “Parthenon Marbles Battle”, two thousand years after the Parthenon was built, in the late 1600's the Parthenon was blown up during a war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, which left the Parthenon almost in complete ruins. Then, in the early 1800's, there came Lord Elgin, who was a huge fanatic of Greek history. Because Greece was currently under conquest by the Ottoman Empire, Lord Elgin made the Ottoman Empire a deal and bought the remains of the Parthenon Frieze artwork along with other sculptures as well. Elgin sent these unique sculptures of art work back to his country, England. Since then these sculptures became known as the "Elgin Marbles", and currently sit in the British Museum at London (“What are the 'Elgin Marbles”, par 1). However, do these fine pieces of artwork truly belong to Elgin? There has been a lot of controversy throughout the years of whet...
I came across many monuments in my research for this paper. I was very intrigued by monuments in New York City. Many people forget about the less talked about monuments. Such as the Flatiron Building and Gracie Mansion. Of course they are those well-known monuments as well. There is the UN building, which has been around since 1949. Penn Station is also another well-known monument. It has been around since the early 1900’s. There are many others including Grand Central Station, the George Washington Bridge, the Cathedral of St. John and Yankee Stadium just to name a few.
The travel website, Taj Mahal, illustrates the origins of this monument. It was constructed to serve as a memorial and tomb for Mumtaz Mahal, the deceased wife of the emperor Shah Jahan (Taj Mahal, 2008). Before her death, while birthing Shah Jahan’s fourteenth child, she requested Jahan build a monument to honor her as stated by the Taj Mahal website (Taj Mahal, 2008). In 1631, construction began, and was finally completed twenty-two years later (Taj Mahal, 2008). Twenty-two thousand workers labored in constructing the monument bringing materials by elephant from many parts of Asia (Taj Mahal, 2008). The web site Islamic Architecture lists the Iranian architect Ustad Ahmed Lahwari as the key designer of the structure; however other architects played prominent roles in the monument’s design (Organization, 1995-2003).Over time, the esti...
It was indicated as one of the seven wonders of the world. It’s located in Agra, India. The construction of the Taj Mahal began in 1632, it took about 22 years t build. Over 1,000 elephants were used as transportation to deliver materials, and almost 2,000 workers were needed to complete the construction. There are total of five domes of the monument, four small domes are surrounded by one tall in the middle. The middle dome is 561feet tall. The outer look of Taj Mahal that attracts the beauty of Taj Mahal is the luxurious white marble, that was brought from many different countries. The white marble changes its color by the sunlight reflection throughout the day. Taj Mahal is aligned in a symmetrical shape where everything on the right side is the same as on the left side. Shah Jahan buried Mumtaz Mahal’s body under the beautiful Taj Mahal, to show his unconditional love to the world, how he could do his best to make her memory last