Notre Dame

Gabriela Mayram Pérez Aguilar.
A00343752.

I chose Notre Dame because I think it's a beautiful architecture that has a lot of things to tell about the history of the country where it is. (France)

The first thing that comes to me when I see this picture is the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and is that even looks a bit funny that connects with it, who does not like movies that end with an impossible love?.
But what many people do not stop to think, is that in those days, the church wanted people to respect him and that he had achieved through fear, that was one of many reasons why churches are a living representation of Gothic art, because apart from that many had in their basement the "torture chambers" as they were called, who disobey the mandates of the church if even in architecture was a little scared?.

Notre Dame is one of the most representative architectures of France and of Gothic art.
And is that from the base to the tip of the towers can be seen finishes of this type of art.



You can see the arches that instead of being very oval as they were before, in this type of architecture are very sharp.



The thing that caught my attention this kind of art, are the gargoyles.
French has an oral tradition there is a dragon named La gargouilles, who lived in a cave near the river Seine.
The gargouilles characterized by their bad manners swallowed ships, destroying everything that stood in his way, and spit too much water, so it caused all kinds of flooding.

The residents of nearby Rouen tried to placate his fits of temper with an annual human sacrifice consisting of a criminal who paid their faults as well, although the dragon preferred maidens.

In the year 600 the Christian priest came to Rouen Romanus willing to compromise with the dragon if the citizens of this town agreed to be baptized and built a church dedicated to Catholic worship.

Equipped with the annual convicted and attributes necessary for an exorcism, Romanus dominated the dragon with the single sign of the cross, transforming it into a docile beast who consented to be transferred to the city, tied with a simple string.

The gargouilles was burned at the stake, with the exception of its mouth and neck, used to the hot breath of the beast, resisted burning in view of which it was decided to mount them on the council, as a reminder of the bad times who had posed to residents.

But although many people believe that gargoyles are something like guards or something scary, really, as the name that is synonymous of "spit out water with ease," says, although the gargoyles decorative and symbolic functions fulfilled its main task is to divert rain water to prevent erosion in buildings.

Gargoyles in El Chanal

I found these amazing gargoyles on a house in El Chanal. I want to share with you these images:

Feedback

Hector, you need to cite your sources because when you do not is plagiarism. Also you need to check the sentences you write before you post them, they need editing.

Aldo, I loved your perception. You can develop a very interesting writing style. Just make sure you cite your sources, even if you paraphrase you still need to cite.

Eduardo, good research, but you missed your own perspective. I will explain in class how to cite properly.

Azul, you got the wrong mosque!

Cesar, I was expecting the definition of the elements you pointed at. You also need to cite your sources.

Melissa, you look at different sources and that is great. I would like to read more about your opinion on Notre Dame.

Good Job Andrea! Very interesting.

Luis Mario, Gargolas are very interesting, I am going to upload a very interesting picture you might like. You need to cite the source of your ideas as well.

Mariana, your comment is very interesting and you know, Hagia Sophia is particularly interesting because it has been as well an orthodox church and a mosque. I do not consider Wikipedia is a serious source for your academic work.

Alex, you wrote a very interesting post. Don´t you find interesting the way emperors were portrayed so close to God and how they considered that they pleased the Virgin Mary giving her new buildings for the empire?

Mr. Martin, good post but you did not include your sources! You need to include your sources ALL the time.

Paco, congratulations! Excellent job! There are still some tips I will explain in class about bibliography and citing properly.

Jorge, your information is interesting but it is not cited, therefore is considered plagiarism.

Marco, unfortunately nowadays it is a museum, not a church anymore. Remember the pictures I showed you with the mosaics? Those pics are from a blog lobbying for
Hagia Sophia to be turned into an orthodox church again.

Mayram and Abraham? I missed your comments.

Marco Vinicio Gómez Gudiño A00343806 Art and culture

Hagia Sophia Structure

Principally I am going to talk about this huge and beautiful church in Turkey. I am more interested in the architecture of this place because it is like advanced architecture on that time. I has to be amazing to have mass on that place, its huge, big, great, and old, but I am referring to old as something important, something that you want to see with your own eyes.
Here is a bit of it history. It was built by Constantine the Great, but it was burned so they had to rebuilt it, the Hagia Sophia it our present time was built between the 532-537 by emperor Justinian I.
Now lets get to what really matter. The structure, the plans of this great construction.

On the left side of this document is a pretty good image of what it is the Hagia Sophia of our present times.
The church is 180 ft high and was built with a dome on dome technique. The upper most dome, 108 ft in diameter, has a series of forty windows to catch the sunlight from practically every angle. Hagia Sophia is thought of as one of the supreme achievements in the history of architecture in the world. The dimensions of are Hagia Sophia are 270 ft long and 240 ft wide, making it one of the largest churches in the world.


Bibliography
http://miroir.mrugala.net/Art%20et%20architecture%20medievals/ArtH1-47.html
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/istanbul-hagia-sophia-floor-plan.html
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/istanbul-hagia-sophia

Jorge Addid A00343807

It tells the history Of Nôtre-Dame's Cathedral of Paris is one of the most ancient French cathedrals of Gothic style, places in the square Parvis, in the small Isla de la Cité in Paris, France, his architect was Maurice de Sully that I use the Gothic architecture as a powerful instrument in the beginning of the 11th century, in order that the cities were evolving and achieving a better civilization.
It was constructed during the reign of Luis VII, initiating in 1163 and ending in 1267 approximately, this church was a place of events as Napoleon's coronation as emperor of France for the dad Pio and the coronation of Enrique VI during the war of hundred years.
Western front.
This one is the main face is the one that provokes major impact and the bigger ones and more famous.
There is thought that it is similar to that of Saint Denis's cathedral for his form and Romanesque style, is proportional and reduces his elements to the essential, independent thing to the thought of many of the architects of this period.
His different architects used a "plastic" wall that interconnects all his elements and happens to integrate also the sculpture in predefined places, preventing it from growing spontaneous and since it happened in the Romanesque one.
The front presents three horizontal levels and is divided in three vertical zones by the buttresses lightly prominent that join in uprightness both low floors and reinforce the beaks of both towers.
Every tower possesses a height of 69 meters.
The portals, the windows, and the gallery of the principal block join in a square subdivided by some vertical and horizontal strong elements in a boss of the cells with the windows of pink color in the center. This high cathedral of 110 feet, it was the first one constructed a really monumental scale.

Francisco Aguilar - A00343750

The Notre Dame de Paris

I will talk about the Notre Dame de Paris’ cathedral.

Although it’ll change a little the structure, I consider I should begin with a little explanation about the church. It’s name is after the Virgin Mary, and would mean “Our Lady of Paris” in English. This is the cathedral of the Catholic archdiocese of Paris (in other words, it is here where the chair, or “throne”, of the Archbishop of Paris is). As many of my classmates have already said (though it’s too important to not mention it), the Notre Dame de Paris is one of the greatest examples of the Gothic architecture.

On octobre 12^th of 1160, Maurice de Sully became the archbishop of Paris. He rebuilt an old church dedicated to Virgin Mary, Notre Dame, and transformed it into a bishop’s church, a canon church, and a baptistery. The first stone was laid in 1163, in presence of Pope Alexander III. The construction was made from the year 1163, to the year 1250 after Christ.

Now, leaving behind the history context of the Notre Dame de Paris, I’ll talk about the many beautiful -and very characteristic of the gothic architecture- stained-glass windows.

There is in Notre Dame one of the greatest masterpieces of Christianity, the South Rose Window. It has 12.90 meters in diameter. It is divided in four circles, and it’s a counterpoint to the North Rose Window. Both are very similar, just that the South Rose Window has an extra rosette that the North one does not have. They represent the flowers of Heaven, but also they are a reminder that we are all unique, but the Children of God are even more beautiful when they come together. In every little circle –as you may see- is someone different from the New Testament.

South Rose Window

As for my personal opinion, I just love it. The stained-glass windows have always been something that attracts me from the churches. And these ones are particularly beautiful. And the size must make them incredibly impacting to see in real life. The whole Cathedral of Notre Dame is really amazing, and I would really love to see it in real life. I expect to go there somewhere in the near future.

Bibliography:

Notre Dame de Paris' history.

Notre Dame's South Rose Window information.

Rosette's information.

Luis Martín Guardado Aguayo

INSIDE OF NOTRE DAME
Notre Dame has a beautiful architecture and the gothic style is reflected in the magnificence of it interior.
The altar has a glorious and dark stile, It makes me feel the divinity of that place, and at the same time, I feel I’m nothing compared to the highness of the building and I also feel like if there was something hidden there.
We can appreciate the way the columns get together in the roof, and the way it looks like a skeleton, but preserving the elegance and the solemnity.
The altar is by itself a masterpiece, decorated in gold and painted with beautiful colors that add light to the darkness of the gothic stile. The size is important here too, it doesn´t seems to be out of proportion because at the bottom, the columns make an arc, reducing the visual space.
The windows are also very important, because they provide the building of light, but they don’t illuminate completely the halls, so, the cathedral conserves a moderate darkness.
The gothic stile has roman aspects included on it, like the columns and the style of the sculptures, and it is characterized for being very close to all the religious aspects, but with a lot of emphasis on the evil, not excluding it, but using it to be more imposing.