Diego Fernando

First, I chose the second picture
The moment I saw it, I thought the movie of Wuasimodo. And I thought the Cathedral Notre Dame.
When I saw carefully, I saw that the architecture is gothic in the medieval age. Medieval is like the middle of all. In the Medieval time was like a war with the muslin and Christian.
The Notre Dame Cathedral is in Paris and it started to construction in 1163 and finished in 1345. The appearance of the interior was radically transformed in the 13 century. And the exterior is appears in the High Gothic. This Cathedral functioned for The Christian Religion and to prey.

I chose the Vitrales or Windows. Each one of the colors is a different vitral(windows). And when you saw it you wonder how long it took to made in. The Windows is in the interior of The Cathedral of Notre Dame. Also each window has a figure relation with the Catholic.
I think that in this time did all very detail. In this time most of the temple did a big windows or with a small windows.
The windows is in the high of the cathedral because when the sunrise passes you can see all the light that reflects like a passed for an angel and this light reflect in the door.
I chose the Windows because I like the colors of the windows and in my opinion is reflect like the purity and the glory.
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/sabas/fotos/europa/paris/paris1023.jpg
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Cathedrals/Paris/Notre-Dame.shtml

Eduardo Daniel

Architecture
The design of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is the culmination of two centuries of both Ottoman mosque and Byzantine church development. It incorporates some Byzantine elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period. The architect has ably synthesized the ideas of his master Sinan, aiming for overwhelming size, majesty and splendour, but the interior lacks his creative thinking. During the rule of Ahmed I, Sultan Ahmed mosque was built between 1609 and 1616 CE. Designed by architect Sedefkar Mehmet Aga, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is considered to be the last example of classical Ottoman architecture.
History
After the Peace of Zsitvatorok and the unfavourable result of the wars with Persia, Sultan Ahmed I decided to build a large mosque in Istanbul to placate Allah. This would be the first imperial mosque in more than fourty years. Whereas his predecessors had paid for their mosques with their war booty, Sultan Ahmed I had to withdraw the funds from the treasury, because he had not won any notable victories. This provoked the anger of the ulema, the Muslim legal scholars.




In my opinion
In the image it is possible to see, the interior part of this mosque, they are architectural impressive examples, where every detail of painting can be seen in the whole wall. The part of the crystals can be observed figures, which call very much the attention. It seemed to me to be interesting to speak about this part in it specifies, since, I am called very much the attention, every form that the things have is inside. It seemed that it has sublevels and I imagine like serious to see the things from there, it would be the only experience. This mosque begins of marble, is a stone that at present is very expensive and difficult to obtain. Imagine all that they were late in constructing this great monument, which is recognized worldwide. In his interior the roof is redressed in enormous blue rollers. This beautiful building of blue alive and green color of the mosaics that decorate the top part and the domes of the mosque, is the only mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, which possesses six minarets, which indicates his high hierarchy in the Moslem world since that of Mecca, in Arabia, is the maxim and has in addition seven minarets.

Alan Vincent Viera

I chose the first image. I started my research by searching the name of this church. I used the hints that Charlie gave us. It was a little bit hard to find, but finally, Wikipedia saved the day. This church is named Hagia Sophia or the Holy Wisdom Church in English, or in Spanish, “La Iglesia de Santa Sofia”.
Here are some pictures of the different perspectives.

It was constructed arounde 360 AC by the Constantine emperor and destroyed by to fires. It was reconstructed 530 Ac by the Justinian emperor. It is decorated with the byzantine techniques. In 1453, the Turks built the 4 pilars called minarets.

The architecture of this church is quite interesting. Some of the basic structures are


Dome- It is a hemispherical roof. It has one central vault and some other half-domes around it.
Pillars- A pillar is a column that is used to hold another structure. Specially, it has 4 central pillars that are supporting the central dome.

Arch- A curved construction used to support the weigh above it.

Ground plan of Greek cross- Is basically the way it was constructed. Making a cross in the floor


My opinion about this church is that is an awesome. It reflects the greatness of Constantinopla. I see it like Arabic influence, I don’t know, like the ones that appeared in the Aladdin movie.
It’s amazing that it was burned twice and then reconstructed. In my opinion, if I could restructure it, I would paint it with some other colors, more brilliant.



Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia
http://www.business-with-turkey.com/guia-estambul/santasfn.shtml
http://rebueno.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tumadre.jpg
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/galeriasb/europa/turquia/Istambul-Santa-Sofia2.jpg
http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/obrmaestras/jpg/CDS11092.jpg
http://www.monografias.com/trabajos55/iglesia-santa-sofia/Image13780.gif
http://rebueno.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/la-arquitectura-de-la-basilica-de-santa-sofia/

Francisco Alfonso Orozco

Well this architecture is a clearly example of byzantine art. I am going to talk about “The Blue Mosque of Istanbul”, or “La Mezquita Azul”.
This beautiful piece of art was build in 1609-1617 (it take too many years how you can see to construct it), and the one that gave the order to construct it was the Sultan Ahmed I. He made it because he wants to abate his god Ala. The reason was that in that period the empire had a lot of problems in his country with the people and with others countries not exactly like wars.
The architect was Mehmet Paşa, I think that to build this beautiful piece of art you need to be one of the best architects in the country.
What you can see in this building that is characteristics of the byzantine art is:
· The kind of material that it was done of, you can think that is done of a simple stone but is not; the byzantine sculpture was characteristic that the architects use beautiful stones and expensive like ivory and marble.
· That it has domes, which are not easy to construct and are really beautiful when they are completely finish, how you can see you can find too many domes in the Mosque, and also the make semi-domes which are like the half of a complete dome.
· They use to make columns that are like the base of all the buildings that are based on this type of art. They are like the places where the building starts growing, and the finish with enormous beaks.
Now the reason that I choose just the top of the Mosque is because all the domes and columns. I really like the way that the columns and the domes are build, because it´s not so easy that it looks too build and I am talking about this time, because it takes to the new workers a lot of time to build a dome or columns now. And now think about how many time does it took to the workers in that period to made this beautiful piece of art it´s really amazing, isn´t? Well this is why I choose this specific place of the Mosque.
Bibliography:
http://www.monografias.com/trabajos32/arte-bizantino/arte-bizantino.shtml#escult
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezquita_Azul#Exterior
http://www.estambul-online.com/mezquita_azul.htm

Hernán Orozco

The Front Window of The Cathedral, Rose Window

This is the window which we can see at the front of the cathedral.

This window represents a rose.
In this the window’s glass, they are some drawings… in this drawings we can see angels, books, bibles, and some other characteristics we can’t define exactly what they mean, I can’t.

This window represents lots of emotions in it. The light gives to the drawings that complement of precious art that we can see every time we look at them.

We can also make the concretization of this window just by looking at it and think about everything we know about religion, we can see a resume of everything we know about the live of Jesus, god and also the fight of the angels in here.

If you look at the angels we can see a representation of love, careless. But they are good angels and bad angels, for the bad ones; hate, anger and some other emotions we can relate with anger…


The drawings in the window are similar form each other; they have drawings in circles around, above, besides, under, everywhere.

But the most important drawing is the one ine the center, but this can be left for the people's interpretation.

Adriana Moran

“NOTRE-DAME”

Notre-Dame is one of the churches that make me feel like “wuau”. I don´t have the exactly words to describe this spectacular building, I think that nobody can understand what did the artist try to transmit.
I had a good opportunity to visit this church, and is so magnify, well if outside looks spectacular, inside is more and more spectacular. You can´t imagine what you are going to find there. When I started to walked I saw an something that make me feels important, well important because I saw the most beautiful paint, that “Mexico” have. It was “LA VIRGEN MARIA” is assume , I’m not going to talk about that, I just want you to know that because I see that like an important note or important part of this beautiful church.
“PORTAL OF THE LAST JUDGEMENT”
The Portal of the Last Judgement, which was built in the 1220s-1230s. It represents the Last Judgement as described in the Gospel of Saint Matthew.
On the lower lintel, the dead are being resuscitated from their tombs. Just above that, on the upper lintel, the archangel Michael is weighing their souls according to the lives they led on earth and the love they showed to God and to men. The chosen people are led to the left towards Heaven (to Christ’s right) and the condemned are lead to the right, to hell, by a devil.


My conclusion:
Well, looking at this beautiful door I felt really really cautived, I was in shock. I love the part of the “people” in the top of the tower, it makes me feel good. I like this exercise very much!

Fernanda Covarrubias

To begin, I should mention that I chose the second picture because it was the most that struck me...

When I entered to the blog to know what would be the next wonderful piece of art that we would have to analyze, I felt inside me something fascinating after I saw the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Thank God and the continuous effort of my parents, I had the opportunity to travel to France and admire this amazing piece of art. And, the thing that surprised me very much (that I would like to share with you) was that how that old building could move me so many beautiful things, like memories, dreams and desires...
For me, it was very exciting and important to know this "bit of God (house)", because in addition to enjoy and contemplate the wonderful Gothic structure (ogee archways, ribbed vaults and the flying buttress wondrous or beautiful Rose windows), the beauty of the west facade (belonging to the twelfth century), and the encounter with a place specially dedicated to our Blessed Mother, Our Mother of Guadalupe... I felt that I was in heaven.
I imagine that some of you might wonder, well... and why did not you choose something more "representative" of the cathedral of Notre Dame? Why not a stained glass window, or a column or an arch? Well, because for me that is not as important as the spiritual space.
And with that, I am not saying that all those details are not important (because in fact are rather interesting and significant), but I think that them are not the most necessary in a church. This place is sacred (of course that if the churches have beautiful and striking objects... it demonstrates a greater admiration behavior toward God), but I think that the heavenly feeling of the people is the main element.
It is by this that I preferred to select the photo of our Morenita, our Blessed Mother of Guadalupe, rather than add “something more artistic”, because in it, you can appreciate a sense of harmony, peace and quiet... a hunch affection and esteem for our Virgin.


Bibliography
Notre Dame, visited on Thursday September 24, 2009. Available at: http://barcedona.blogspot.com/2008/11/notre-dame-cathedral.html
Notre Dame, visited on Thursday September 24, 2009. Available at:
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Cathedrals/Paris/Notre-Dame.shtml
Notre Dame, visited on Thursday September 24, 2009. Available at:
http://www.paris.org/Monuments/NDame/
Notre Dame Cathedral, visited on Thursday September 24, 2009. Available at:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Notre_Dame_Cathedral.html
Notre Dame Cathedral and Guadalupe´s Virgin, visited on Thursday September 24, 2009. Available at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jssutt/3569437271/