Essays on Cathedral

This paper talks about the Mexico City´s Metropolitan Cathedral which was mitigated from deformations self weight consolidation and regional subsidence and further accumulation was prevented and it also puts forth suggestions for planning a post graduate course on Geotechnical Design focused on heritage structures, based on the study of case histories. In this paper we describe how geotechinal techniques were applied to the case of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral. The Metropolitan ...

Duomo di Milano known as Milan Cathedral, is the world's second largest Catholic Cathedral in the world. It is dedicated to Santa Maria Nascente. This building is one of the most famous attraction in Italy. The specialty about this cathedral is its beauty and it is the only building that has the vast amount of statues, over 3400 statues and thousands of individual spires, according to (Mussio, 2014). Including the highest golden statue Madonnina as the main spire. After, the statue of ...

According to the architect Pierre L'Enfant, The Washington National Cathedral was created to be a "great church for national purposes." The construction of this important Cathedral dates back to the birth of the United States. Building the National Cathedral took a great amount of energy, planning, work, and time. This Cathedral has been through damage, repair, and renovations. Today, The Washington National Cathedral is known to be the sixth largest cathedral in the world. Along with holding ...

Durham Cathedral is amongst the oldest manifestations of Romanesque architecture in England. While its construction was finalised in the early 12th century, several alterations were made to the cathedral across different eras after its initial completion, resulting in the amalgamation of various architectural styles throughout. An example of such styles is Gothic architecture, which, according to Robert Scott's The Gothic Enterprise, was heavily influenced by Romanesque architecture. As such, ...

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is a standout amongst the most motivational structures in noteworthy Savannah. With its acclaimed French Gothic towers, the house of prayer is an image of strength. From its unassuming beginnings in the seventeenth century through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and others in the past, the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist has an amazing history of steadiness. In 1898, the house of God persevered through a staggering flame that totally decimated the ...

Around the year 1160 in Paris France a priest Maruice de Sully had wanted a previously standing cathedral to be demolished to make room for a new cathedral to be built. That cathedral being the Notre-Dame de Paris which Maruice de Sully was devoted to have built. Even after his death it was still undergoing construction. After months of work the cathedral was finishing up in the year 1345. In 1792 there was a revelation that had caused destruction to pieces of art in the cathedral. Around the ...

The Chartres cathedral is in France about an hour train ride from Paris, It's easy to think about this church a day trip from Paris. About back in the 11th ,12th, 13th centuries, the town of charters was a major destination unto itself. But it's important that we understand it within the orbit of Paris because Gothic a style develop in Ile de France that is the area around Paris that was ruled by the king of France. We think know as France nation with stable borders but in the medieval, period ...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver exemplify through a point of view, imagery, and symbolism, an issue of importance: stories that have an important look on life are more imperative than those that don't. 'Everyday Use' and 'Cathedral' both appear different but have significant similarities, which contains characters who don't see the world very clearly. This allows the characters of both stories to go through a unique development of their own self-views of the ...