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Welcome
to the architecture portion of
the web site, this section is
dedicated to three of the greatest
types of architecture, Neoclassical,
Baroque, and Gothic. This site
welcomes any content contributions,
and would truly love too have
some for this section, please
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and Cologne Skylines. |
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Some
Pictures of the baroque, gothic
and neoclassical architecture
of Dresden and Cologne (and one
picture of Potsdam university
in Brandenburg), donated by Hendrik
from Cologne Germany, Thank you
Hendrik!. |
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(Click
to enlarge) |
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Neoclassicism,
what is it? well one can get extremely
in depth, and traverse centuries and still
not quite express what Neoclassicism is,
so instead of trying to stay technically
correct and perhaps conveying the wrong
points, this summary will focus on what
it is from the authors perspective, which
may or may not be highly biased, even
zealous toward Neoclassicism.
Neoclassicism in all arts is the attempt
to re-create canonic classics, to impress
a certain feeling of strength through
timelessness and ideal through beauty
an ideal of beauty and vitality, beauty
refined by that time instead of killed
by it. At its best neoclassicism cannot
be ignored by those who witness its design,
its strength, its undying potency and
its tendency to stand like a rock among
so many other fleeting styles of modernism.
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Baroque
architecture is one of the most luscious
and beautiful forms of architecture ever
to sweep the western world, inspired and
helped along by the catholic faith Baroque
was at its height in the mid 1600’s,
when some of the most awe inspiring structural
works of art of the western world where
created.
Perhaps the most famous example of Baroque
architecture is the Sistine chapels in
Vatican city Rome, here a synergy of color,
light, and form flow together to create
one of the most beautiful visual testaments
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Of
all forms of architecture none is so closely
linked with religion as is the gothic
style, its flowing stained glass, its
flying buttresses and its austere, vulpine,
almost razor like features make it both
attractive and repulsive at the same time.
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