Anne Radcliffe's novel "The Italian" incorporates many aspects of the Gothic that can be found weaved throughout the text. Radcliffe's novel is a combination of an exploration into a striking culture, with looming family secrets, subtle hints of supernatural forces at work and G...

The gothic period followed the Romanesque period. The primary difference between Gothic cathedrals and Romanesque churches is ideological. The difference is completely in their style. The main difference between St. Sernin and Chartres Cathedral is their stylistic elements. They are two differen...

Throughout the Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance civilizations, art has been used to express the entire range of human feelings and spiritual beliefs. \"Art was a pleasure in itself,\" according to humanist ideas. So the essential question was asked: What was the relationship between art in the Roman...

Gothic Art is considered as the combination of the painting, sculpture, architecture and music characteristic in the central Europe during the Middle ages. Firstly derived from Romanesque art, Gothic art has a great influence for centuries lasted from mid-12th century to 15th century. The topic of M...

Gothic writing and the idea of Gothic have been inspired from books such as Frankenstein and Dracula. The idea of Gothic Writing and art first started some time in the middle Ages. From that, creatures like the gargoyles, which are usually found on most cathedrals started to form. In most stories...

Jamie Evans September 12, 2000 Sainte-Chapelle "The choice colors of the painting, the costly gilding of the carving, the delicate translucency of the red glowing windows, the splendid altar carvings, the miracles working power of the sacred relics, and the decorations of the...

Donatello\'s work has forever changed the way that art is created, viewed, and interpreted. Generally, this Italian Renaissance sculptor is considered by most experts to be one of the greatest sculptors of all time (A History of Art 46); he is also thought of as the founder of modern sculpture. Alth...

CULTURAL CRITICISM AND FRANKENSTEIN Cultural Criticisms · Goal of cultural criticism is to oppose culture with a capital C. The view of culture, which always and only equates it with what we call "high culture." · Cultural critics want to make term culture refer t...

Chartes Cathedral Malcolm Miller, an English-speaking tour guide at the Chartes Cathedral states, "The Chartes Cathedral is a book. Its architecture is in the binding, and its stories are told through its windows and sculptures." The Chartes Cathedral held true to this statement thro...

The Romanticism era or movement was basically a rebellion of the typical or mainstream idea of literature. This was a very strong movement, it was accepted and practiced by approximately two thirds of the popular writting population. It began in Germany and England in the 1770s, by the 1820s it had ...

Architecture is one remarkable human endeavor, one of the means through which we try to creat order and make sense of our endlessly intriguing, yet messy world. And to provide ourselves with shelter. We all live and work in buildings. From the humblest to the sublime, there is no reason why any o...

At the end of the fourteenth century, gothic architecture began to wear off and renaissance architecture moved in. Europe was evolving out of the middle ages and in the Renaissance period. The beliefs in humanity were growing in popularity. Along with the changes in ways of life, politics, families ...

Samuel Coleridge wrote during a time period where gothic styling influenced many writers. This trend by writers of the era rises to the surface prominently in ?The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?. Coleridge uses gothic elements here to determine the existence and fate of the Mariner?s faulty spirit and...

High atop a hill of granite, surrounded by the gorge and river Tagus sits the ancient and formidable gothic Cathedral and Moorish palace, Alcazar, of Toledo, Spain. Toledo's skyline has changed little since El Greco immortalized Spain's religious centre in 1597-9(Cardillac 28). El Greco's natural...

The ancestors of man were experimenting with art over 12 thousand years ago - paintings as far back as 15,000 to 10,000 BC have been found in caves. Our history of painting was slow to mature into the art we know and appreciate today. The most prolific period was the Renaissance period, with some ...

The Romantic Period: "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Young Goodman Brown" ENC 1102 The Romantic Movement, which originated in Germany but quickly spread to England, France, and beyond, reached America around the year 1820. Romantic ideas...

Frank Lloyd Wright has often been revered as America\'s most creative and innovative architect, and rightfully so. His career spanned some seventy years and within his lengthy run he created some of the most unique and forward thinking building designs in the United States. Beginning his education a...

Chinoiserie As early as the 1100's, traders brought Chinese exports to Europe, where it became greatly admired. As European trade with the Orient grew during the 1600's, many of these products and their styles became popular with the European public. Thus, the Chinese had a growing influence on Eu...

Albert Dürer was born on May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg into a Hungarian family of goldsmiths. His work includes painting, engraving, and even writing on theoretical monograph related to the problem of perspective. His themes were based on religious conflicts. He attempted to reconcile conflicts w...

In William Shakespeare's Play Titus Andronicus, the main characters, Titus Andronicus and Tamora are polar opposites. Titus, the General of Rome, is a war victor and a self-righteous paragon for his committed respect for Roman traditions. Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, is consumed with barbari...

Italy: A Place of Romance Picture this: You and someone you love sitting on a balcony with a view of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, sipping fine wine and watching all the beautiful lights of the city. Some people could never imagine themselves in Italy. Rumors of the m...

My experience with art is novice at best, but one particular piece caught my eye. It is a painting by Jackson Pollack entitled \"Flame.\" This piece is abstract. Although it is abstract, it still conveys an environment and setting. At first glance, it seems to be just a pattern of colors, but afte...

Antoni Gaudi was a Spanish architect, born on 25th June 1852 in Reus. He attended secondary school in the Colegio de los Padres Escolapios also in Reus in 1863. Gaudi also attended preparatory courses in 1869 to enable him to study architecture at the Faculty of Natural Science at Barcelona Univer...

William Blake was a poet and visual artist who embodied all that is the spiritual nature of man and did so through pure and untainted art. A master of not only the English language, but also the language of the gods, Blake was ostracized, as the general public had trouble with his linear, gothic, an...

Classicist and Romantics in Arcadia The play, Arcadia, written by Tom Stoppard, shows different characters that expresses varied opinions on certain subjects. The characters in the play are either classified as Romantics or Classicists. Although some characters are both Classicist and Romant...