A vast pan-European network of conspicuous consumption existed in the high middle ages and it was a big part of how the elites “kept score.” So Crakows with their long poulain toes were apparently the Manolo Blahniks of their day. I will keep looking for more to the story, but it ...
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FromAdolf Loos, whose radical ideas challenged the trends of his time, toOtto Wagner,a pioneer of VienneseModernism,Vienna'sarchitectural legacy continued to evolve. Fast-forwarding to contemporary times, Vienna's skyline bears the mark of internationally renowned architects likeZaha Hadid, whose flui...
There’s a touch of anti-Semitism here, as is typical in Gothic novels of the time; gambling was deeply frowned upon by the Victorians as a transgression against God, so it’s not surprising a Jewess is the one involved in it rather than a Christian. (For more on gambling as a Gothic...
(5th-15th century A.D.). It originated from the German Goths who invaded Italy and disintegrated the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries A.D. because Italians have always been unable to let go of the historical hatred of the Goths for destroyi...
Key Ideas:1. Gothic art in Italy forms a bridge between Medieval and Renaissance art.2. The artist becomes an important historical personality whose life story can be traced and recorded.3. Aspects of ancient sculpture are revitalized under the artistic leadership of the Pisani family.4. The ...
(primarily theological at that time) and a symbol of the universe. Its entire artistic structure combined solemn grandeur with passionate dynamic feeling and infinite abundance and variety of fluid forms with a strict hierarchical system for their coordination. It expressed not only ideas on social ...
However, offers more than one way of reading it as a Gothic narrative: not only are there distinctly Gothic elements in Bechdel's description of her family life and home, its basic structure circles around themes of death, trauma, Otherness and the past, ideas central to the Gothic.In ...
For whom the bell tolls… “TRUE CHIME” is a true crime trailer album woven with processed bells for a uniquely eerie, dark sound signature. This is the off-center internal world of narcissistic psychopaths and obsessed detectives where strange chimes rattle like fixed ideas and incessant thought...
It's something we want to continue celebrating and showcasing as much as possible, alongside all the incredible mods people create. As I mentioned in the winners' announcement post, we're taking a short break from competitions for a little while whilst we focus some of our time on in-...