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	1590s In Architecture info here at en.12et.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Don't 1590s in architecture branches to rub against each other.
		From the intricately carved Lamu doors, reminiscent of Moorish architecture in Portugal and Spain, to the old Portuguese graffiti that has been restored, the history of...
		Our Featured 1590s in architecture article on 1590s in architecture
	en.12et.com /1590s_in_architecture (204 words)

	Architecture timeline - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Palace of Assembly at Chandigarh, India, is finished, completing largely the design for the civic structures for the new city deisgned by Le Corbusier.
		John Entenza begins the Case Study House Program in Arts and Architecture magazine.
		The 1937 World's Fair in Paris showcases Nazi and Soviet architecture and Art Deco.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Architecture_timeline (2417 words)

	World History
		In ecclesiastical architecture new methods of vaulting gave builders greater freedom, as may be seen, for example, in the construction of the choir at Canterbury, rebuilt after a fire in 1174 by William of Sens.
		Chinese influences could be seen in monochrome painting style (suiboku-ga), architecture, certain skills in pottery manufacture, and the custom of tea drinking--all of which contributed to the formation of early medieval culture and exerted an enormous influence on everyday life in Japan.
		In matters of religion, the great social changes that took place between the end of the Heian period and the early Kamakura period fostered a sense of crisis and religious awakening and caused the people to demand a simple standard of faith, in place of the complicated teachings and ceremonies of the ancient Buddhism.
	members.tripod.com /gpf/worldhistory.html (20027 words)

	SICILY, Sicilian Art and Architecture - BuySicilian - The Sixteenth Century
		These fountains were part of flamboyant attempts to modernise the urban environment, by opening new streets, creating vistas marked by prestigious buildings or gates, improving the water supply, and so on, with which ambitious viceroys, courting popularity, sought to link their names.
		In Palermo, for instance, when the road to Monreale was opened between 1580 and 1584, the new gates of Porta Felice and Porta Nuova were erected, and the latter perpetuated ideas of the temporary triumphal arch put up for Charles V's celebrated visit of 1535.
		He established in Sicily the Tuscan manner of the mid-century in both sculpture and architecture, reinstating the use of human and monstrous figures in sculpture, which had been lost largely because of Arab influence.
	www.buysicilian.it /uk/archimede/sicilia/sixteenth.html (709 words)

	Brumfield
		Therefore, an examination of the major sixteenth-century architectural monuments of the Solovetskii Transfiguration Monastery must also note the origins of this extraordinary architectural achievement in a culturally and politically complex Â«Â triadÂ Â» formed by the Novgorod eparchy, the Muscovite court, and the already substantial monastic centers of northern Russian culture.
		The architectural traditions of Novogord, which originated in the eleventh century and were among the most important in Kievan Rus, had a formative influence on northern monastic architecture.
		The middle of the sixteenth century was a time of bold experimentation in Russian architecture, and one of the results was the appearance of churches supported by two piers in the center of the structure, instead of the four central piers typical of inscribed-cross church plans in early medieval Russia22.
	www.recherches-slaves.paris4.sorbonne.fr /Cahier7/Brumfield.htm (7924 words)

	Architecture_timeline info here at en.21-of-100.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If your presentation is as good or Architecture timeline than your competitors, then the quality and uniqueness of your image will determine the outcome.
		Architecture Spike Project/Iteration Instead of burning up cycles of rework from mistakes made when learning the new technology within a normal timeline in a project, it broke out that necessary but all too often overlooked aspect to technology projects into itâs own...
		This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages.
	en.21-of-100.info /hotel-in-columbus/Architecture_timeline (3678 words)

	Sprunger, April 99
		The 1955 article on architecture in the Mennonite Encyclopedia, by Cornelius Krahn and N. van der Zijpp, was perhaps a landmark on this topic in that it combined a historical survey with hints of an architectural philosophy.
		The main points of Bethel architectural discussion were these: (1) the spire; (2) stained glass; (3) using decorative crosses inside and out; (4) divided chancel with divided choir; and (5) central altar with side pulpits, rather than pulpit in the center.
		So, although the Mennonite architecture of the past lacked steeples, stained glass or divided chancels, Kansas Mennonites in their new environment may have evolved to the point that such innovations could be judiciously used.
	www.goshen.edu /mqr/pastissues/apr99sprung.html (6587 words)

	John Lobell
		Arch 308 examines the architecture of the 20 th century focusing on the buildings and writings of the modern movement from the turn of the century to the 1960s.
		First, it aims to give students a comprehensive understanding of architectural developments in the 20 th century to further their knowledge of the profession's recent history and broaden their grasp of those programmatic and formal precedents considered pertinent to contemporary practice.
		Echoing Viollet-le-Duc's "[Architecture] must be true according to the programme and true according to the methods of construction," Oskar Schlemmer, writing for the first Bauhaus Exhibition in 1923 stated, "Reason and science, 'man's greatest powers,' are the regents, and the engineer is the sedate executor of unlimited possibilities.
	johnlobell.com /PrattCourses/308Mdrn.htm (2955 words)

	Biography
		A study of Roman architecture also reinforced the stability of his compositions, which often include views of Roman Renaissance buildings.
		A feverish intensity can be sensed in many of El Greco's canvases dating from the 1590s until the time of his death.
		Baptism of Christ (signed in Greek, as was the artist's custom, 1596?-1600?) and Adoration of the Shepherds (1612-1614), both in the Prado, seem to pulsate with an eerie light generated by the holy figures themselves.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /bio/g/greco_el/biograph.html (920 words)

	North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
		He went to Rome in the early 1590s to enter the studio of a prominent painter.
		The word baroque (bar-oak') was originally a Portugese word meaning irregular, contorted, or grotesque, and was used in a derogatory way to describe the art of the seventeenth century.
		Today we use the term to refer to the art and architecture produced in Europe from about 1600 to 1700.
	www.art.unt.edu /ntieva/artcurr/alsp/caravagg.htm (813 words)

	ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
		A library facility preserved because it has architectural and historical significance, for example, the New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, which houses the humanities and social sciences research collections.
		An architectural firm that specializes in the design of structures for housing libraries.
		Because most library buildings are intended to be permanent and their physical appearance makes a statement about the institution or community they serve, the selection of an architect is an important decision in planning new construction or renovation.
	lu.com /odlis/odlis_l.cfm (10236 words)

	Ron Heisler - John Dee and the Secret Societies
		There is nothing to indicate that he was, yet he seems to have been keenly interested in matters architectural, an area in which England was singularly deficient even by the mid-16th century, going by the paucity of published works available in the vernacular.
		In the 1590s, having returned, quite prudently, from the uncertainties of Bohemia, where Kelley languished in gaol, accused of fraudulent transmutation, Dee's financial situation was precarious.
		The awkward tango that Dee danced with the alchemist and explorer, Adrian Gilbert, the half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, is well written down in the spiritual diaries.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/1896/johndee.html (3732 words)

	Temple of El Greco: The Greatest Artist of Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He was employed in the workshop of Titian and was also strongly influenced by Tintoretto, both masters of the High Renaissance (see Renaissance Art and Architecture).
		The sculptural qualities of the work of Italian artist Michelangelo inspired him, as is evident in his Pietà (1570?-1572?, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Purification of the Temple (1570?-1575?, Minneapolis Institute of Arts).
		El Greco also painted views of the city of Toledo itself, such as View of Toledo (1600?-1610?, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City), even though landscape was a genre traditionally neglected by Spanish artists.
	sangha.net /messengers/el-greco.htm (911 words)

	CRIOLLOS, Birth of a Dynamic Indo-Afro-European People on Hispaniola
		It is also evident that they passed on some of their language and traditional concepts of worship, art and architecture, as well as their ways of thinking about music, song and dance, kinship, reciprocity, child raising, and ownership--particularly land and resource ownership.
		In all of these areas on Hispaniola, a combination of historical, ethnohistorical and archeological evidence shows a high retention level, particularly in the countryside, of Indian traditions, complemented, reinforced and modified by African cultural traditions.
		The infrastructures, patterns, values and beliefs that the Spanish residents of Hispaniola took with them to the new colonies throughout the Caribbean, South America, Central America and North America had their origins in Europe, but they could not be implanted intact in the new lands.
	www.kacike.org /LynneGuitar.html (8317 words)

	Island of Freedom - El Greco
		There the sculptural qualities of the work of Italian artist Michelangelo inspired him, as is evident in his Pietà (1570?-1572?, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Purification of the Temple (1570?-1575?, Minneapolis Institute of Arts).
		It is reported that during the pontificate of Pius V (1566-72) El Greco, by offering to repaint Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, made himself unpopular in Rome and was obliged to move to Spain.
		Indeed, there is present in his canvases a mystical atmosphere similar to that evoked in the writings of such contemporaneous Spanish mystics as Saint Teresa of Ávila and Saint John of the Cross, although no evidence exists that El Greco had any personal contact with them.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /GRECO.HTM (1009 words)

	Bookish Math: Science News Online, Dec. 20, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1993, Robert Matthews of Aston University in England and Thomas Merriam, an independent Shakespearean scholar in England, created a neural network that could distinguish between the plays of Shakespeare and of his contemporary Christopher Marlowe.
		A neural network is a computer architecture modeled on the human brain, consisting of nodes connected to each other by links of differing strengths.
		The results support the idea that "in the early 1590s, Shakespeare made the transition from actor to the most accomplished playwright of his or anyone else's era—by amending preexisting scripts by Marlowe," Matthews says.
	www.sciencenews.org /20031220/bob8.asp (2894 words)

	El Greco
		Further Italian inspiration came during the years El Greco spent in Rome, from 1570 to 1576.
		The sculptural qualities of the work of Italian artist Michelangelo inspired him, as is evident in his Pietà, and Purification of the Temple A study of Roman architecture also reinforced the stability of his compositions, which often include views of Roman Renaissance buildings.
		It is amazing to notice the same city, yet with some hundred years of interval between El Greco's painting and the city of our time.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-ElGreco.htm (1503 words)

	The Triumph of the Baroque : Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750 by Henry A. Millon (Editor), Reale Palazzina Di Caccia ...
		The Triumph of the Baroque : Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750
		This catalog, which was published in 2000 to coincide with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, traces the evolution of baroque architecture in Europe.
		Subjects : ARCHITECTURE : History : Architecture, Baroque
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0847822192 (115 words)

	Shakespeare's Globe Theater
		Yet, at the same time, the Globe was grand even in the eyes of Elizabethan society's most powerful and prosperous leaders.
		As Levin also observes in his prefatory essay, recently discovered documents indicate that reconstructions of the Globe as "a quaint little Tudor cottage" have been errant, since Burbage's house "may have had arches, pilaster, and other details of Baroque architecture".
		Contemporaneous accounts suggests that the Globe was far more impressive than the thatched and half-timbered models of it can capture, having a more spectacular look to its structure than is commonly recognized, one that was further heightened by property embellishments (e.g.
	www.enotes.com /william-shakespeare/shakespeares-globe-theater (1925 words)

	Philippine American Literary House
		Chinese traders had come to Cebu before this time but it was only in the 1590s when Cebu briefly participated in the lucrative galleon trade, that they had reason to settle down in Cebu.
		The book combines historical descriptions of Philippine domestic architecture, urban history, and portraiture of the turn-of-the-century urban Filipino family.
		The focus of the study is trained on a house and a district: Casa Gorordo and the district in which it is found, the Parian of Cebu.
	www.palhbooks.com /used_rare.html (7962 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books, Subjects, Art, Architecture & Photography, Print & Decorative ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Amazon.co.uk: Books, Subjects, Art, Architecture & Photography, Print & Decorative Arts, Marquetry & Inlays
		Books > Subjects > Art, Architecture & Photography > Print & Decorative Arts >
		Inlay is a wonderful way to create flowers, scenes, figures, and other intricate and colourful designs on wood objects - and a great opportunity to work with small quantities of rare and costly woods (also precious metals, leather, mother-of-pearl, and other materials).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/267425 (856 words)

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