BUILDING the GREAT CATHEDRALS
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RIDDLES of the SPHINX
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SECRETS of the PARTHENON
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In preparation for tomorrow night's premiere, NOVA has launched their own Building the Great Cathedrals web page. Find out more about the film, learn how medieval glass makers created beautiful stained glass windows, and see if you can build your own stone arch without it collapsing!
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The first review for building the Great Cathedrals is in! Jack Goodstein at BlogCritics calls the film "Fascinating!"
You can read the whole review here.
You can read the whole review here.
With a height of over 500 feet, Beauvais Cathedral is one of the
tallest cathedrals in the world. How were gothic builders able to raise
blocks of stone weighing up to 3 tons to such towering heights?
Except for the color in their stained glass windows, today, Gothic
Cathedrals appear as drab as the material with which they were built:
stone. But to medieval pilgrims, they were a kaleidoscopic feast for the
eyes, inside and out.
When gothic architecture emerged in 12th Century France, builders moved
away from the thick walls and rounded arches of the Romanesque style to
much thinner walls supported by pointed arches and ribbed vaults. This
evolution in architectural technique is best illustrated by the ruins of
Ourscamp where both styles are readily apparent.
Gothic builders created soaring Cathedrals as places to worship God. But, they also encoded their architecture and sculpture with pagan symbols and statues of scientific thinkers. Join author Philip Ball as he deciphers the stone carvings of Chartres Cathedral.
Join Providence Pictures and
Brown University's Department of Egyptology for a screening of our film,
Riddles of the Sphinx. The screening will be followed by a Q&A
session with Dr. Mark Lehner, esteemed Egyptologist and Director of the
Giza Mapping Project.
Details after the break.
Details after the break.
Continue reading Free Screening of Riddles of the Sphinx and Q&A with Mark Lehner.
