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...Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01143 Because St Paul’s is a powerful national symbol, the meaning and role of St Paul’s are contested. Now read these three short extracts which offer different views. For each extract, try to summarise the article’s views about the cathedral in one sentence. Then reveal the...

...architecture, in the design of buildings public and private, or to conduct water from one place to another. I can carry out sculpture in marble, bronze, and clay; and in painting can do any kind of work as well as any man, whoever he be. Moreover, the bronze horse could be made that will be to the immortal glory and eternal honour of the lord your father of blessed memory...

...architectural history. You will begin by examining a phenomenon that is entirely a matter of being a ‘copy’ rather than an authentic original, and explore what people might enjoy about it. The video below was filmed in early 2017, and looks at ‘The Guns N Roses Experience’; a ‘tribute band’ who perform as if they were the iconic rock band Guns N Roses....

...architectural undergrowth as cumbers the perspectives of some cathedrals; besides, the afternoon of our visit there were so many other Americans that you could easily have asked your way in your own dialect. We loitered over its lengths and breadths, and wondered at its windows, which were like the gates of sunrise and sunset for magnitude, and lingered in a sumptuous...

...architectural elements. This image shows you the location of the Parthenon frieze, a decorative band located above the architrave of the temple. Friezes were made up of rectangular architectural features, known as metopes, which often had painted of sculptured decoration. This image also shows you the location of the temple’s pediment, a form of gable usually of...