Siena Cathedral

T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral tells the story of Thomas Beckett, a man who reigned as Archbishop of Canterbury during the 12th century in England until his death in 1170. In order to tell Beckett's story, Eliot creates a series of equally interesting characters that each play a crucial role thought the play. The most unique rolefound within the play is the Women ofCanterbury, or the Chorus. Throughout the piece, the Chorus delivers seven choral odes. These choral odes, when looked at as a

comes with a past, but like most of English history, Canterbury has an engrossing history attached to the name. This includes brown-nosing, jealousy, and murder. Everything that is usually associated with a church. The history of the Canterbury Cathedral is riveting. According to the cathedral’s website, it was built between 1070 and 1077. The next half century went by quietly, then around 1118 a boy named Thomas a Becket was born. Not much is known about his early life, but he eventually became

Cimabue created “Virgin and Child Enthroned” in about 1280, while Giotto di Bondone, an Italian painter and architect, created his “Virgin and Child Enthroned” between 1305 and 1310 (Stokstad & Cothren, 548, 550). The two paintings have various similarities. However, the most obvious similarities are that both focus on Mary and the Child Jesus, are long and pentagon shaped, and include figures of angels and prophets. In addition, both paintings have a sort of Byzantine influence (Cimabue’s painting

differed greatly from those utilized by the generation before them. These changes not only brought their followers closer to god but they also increased the structural support of the overall building creating a more sound foundation. As seen in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Amiens, which stood at a staggering 144, the use of these new methods would allow the french architects to elevate their construction like never before. Unlike the views of Modern society that associate the terms “Gothic” with a

Canterbury Cathedral may be one of the most historic and well-known buildings in England, hosting many events and tourists every year, but most do not remember it being one of history’s most infamous crime scenes (“Walsh, Robert). In Medieval England, the Canterbury Cathedral was the most important center of pilgrimage. Ever since 597 AD, there has been a cathedral in Canterbury when St. Augustine ordered the construction, where he has been the most religious figure in England (“Canterbury Cathedral”).

worship that I attended was Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica which is located at 385 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1N 1J9. I attended the Sunday mass on the 2nd of October 2015 at 12:00pm. Building: The cathedral was built entirely out of grey stone bricks and had two tall steeples on each side of the cathedral’s entrance. The steeples were coated with a shiny silvery-white metal and had bells inside of each steeple that rings at the beginning of mass in the cathedral. In addition to that, there was an ornate

Through seeing beautiful things humanity is led upwards. The beauty of a cathedral is good and is a creation of God; therefore, through looking at its magnificence we can be led to higher divine knowledge, similar to the way one is led to a higher understanding of God when reading Aquinas’ works. The repetitive, supporting structures of both the architecture of a Cathedral, and the composition of the Summa Theologiae, guides the human mind and spirit upwards and closer to God. The only way one

Siblings, especially my brother and I, antagonize one another; this usually frustrates our parents. On one specific day, my parents had had enough. They kicked me and my younger brother out of the house and ordered us to return before dinner (It was around noon when we were kicked out). My brother I decided to swing by our neighbor’s house to hang out, but Jonathan, a friend of mine a little older than me, wanted to chill outside. We all rode our skateboards/ bicycles around our neighborhood until

n 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades: the enormous hole in the roof of their cathedral. Season after season, the winter rains and summer sun had streamed in over Santa Maria del Fiore’s high altar—or where the high altar should have been. Their predecessors had begun the church in 1296 to showcase the status of Florence as one of Europe’s economic and cultural capitals, grown rich on high finance and the wool and silk trades.

Chartres Cathedral Church is one of the most important in France. After a fire in 1134 destroy the town of Chartres the west front of the cathedral. The rebuilding of the west facade between 1145-50. It was once known as Notre Dame de Chartres but today is known as Chartres Cathedral. This church has the essential parts of a Christian basilica. The cathedral is locates in the town of Chartres, Northwester France. It is one of three Gothic French architecture and the others are Amiens Cathedral and Reims