Just some random info on the great African American Orator and Pulpiteer Vernon Johns. He was Martin Luther King Jr’s predecessor to the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and started the civil rights movement.
A controversial writer who championed individual liberty and opposed organized religion.
On November 9th, 2008, it will be 70 years since Maurice Bavaud tried to assassinate Hitler in Munich. After prolonged torture, he was murdered by the Nazis on May 14th, 1941, after ‘legal’ proceedings followed by a sentence to death. He was officially rehabilitated by Germany in 1956.
Surgères, France, not only has an important Romanesque church but also ramparts, a keep, a fort and a less known finely carved elegant Renaissance portico. The poet Ronsart urged Hélène de Surgères, retired here, “to pick up the roses of life”.
A wonderful legacy of wall and floor art.
After I had graduated with my bachelors, I decided to switch majors. I wanted to get my Masters in 19th century Art History.
Located in the Walled City of Intramuros, San Agustin Church is now 437 years old and going stronger as time goes by. This Roman Catholic Church symbolizes the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, being the first Church built in Manila during the Spanish regime.
The ritual of rock-cut architecture goes back all the way to the Great Temple of Ramses located along the Nile in Nubia.
As only the second Gothic church to be built in Sunderland, St. Mary’s R.C. Church follows the classical precedent of the Holy Trinity in its rectangular floor plan and overall symmetry. Outwardly, however, the building is a display of spirited medievalism.
Gothic is not just one of those terms we use on certain people today. It is also a form of art, seen commonly in the ancient past.
