Where did it come from? The quatrefoil (the daddy of barbed quatrefoil) was born around 700 BCE in Mexico. These are Old Testament days, people! It became all the rage in the Gothic and Renaissance eras (1100 AD
Once the head of the Roman Empire and regarded to be the birthplace of Western civilisation, the Italian capital’s history spans 28 centuries. Much of Rome’s stunning architecture can be attributed to the Renaissance when work was undertaken to create a city that was the creative and cultural...
Where did banda music originate?Banda Music:The word 'banda' actually is Spanish for 'band' or a group of musicians. Banda is dance music that has a heavy beat. Banda groups feature strong percussion and brass instruments, such as trumpets....
where rolling hills embrace ancient stone walls and cypress trees guard centuries of artistic genius. This Renaissance cradle invites guests to travel transcendently across time, where the indelible marks of masters’ brushstrokes on the fabric of human creativity....
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the church frequently is proclaimed to be the finest example of mission architecture in the United States. Records reveal little about the architect and artisans responsible for the original construction. Influences of Moorish, Byzantine and Late Mexican Renaissance architecture blend to create the striki...
This is where medieval and Renaissance history converge in a dazzling spectacle of architecture. Also in the region are the equally impressive cities of Parma, Ferrara, Ravenna, and Modena, which, like Bologna, don't lack for palaces, museums, expansive plazas, and Renaissance history. For a ...
I suspect that their communities of interest could make a case that everything from radiology to real ale to Renaissance poetry is now more important than ever. If you’ve seen the phrase used in another context and thought “So what?” then it’s very likely that non-ecologists are ...
Until the translation into French by Galland during the twelfth/eighteenth century, The Arabian Nights were practically unknown in Europe, although individual stories had been included in medieval and Renaissance story collections (Irwing, 1994: p. 43). Download: Download high-res image (120KB) ...
Couple the real estate boom of the last 10 years with Brooklyn’s renaissance, and you end up with some remarkable results. “Park Slope and Brooklyn did revive with a vengeance because more and more people spread the word,” Huebner says. “Their friends had moved there, and more and mor...