Random!

I think my parents have forgotten that my birthday's in like two weeks. That's rubbish.

aww poor knittin kitten!!!

I wish I had felt the earthquake we had I had JUST fallen asleep when it happened. Glad no one was hurt opposites! At least it wasn't like China's earthquake.

I know, we are lucky here that we are not heavily populated! There would have been worse damage then. Sadly I read that some farm animals who were inside died, due to the barn falling in

We went to the safari park!!

What a great picture of the lion....I wish there was a Safari Park around here...I haven't been to a zoo in years.
My little brother graduated on Friday.....he was supposed to stay 10 forever in my mind, but of course life doesn't work that way, so now he's out of highschool and in the real world! Weird how time goes by so quickly.

Great photo Queeny!

Liz, my little brother just graduated too! They grow up so fast.

He (young male you can see his mane starting to come through aaaw) just sat there so i HAD to take it, a lionness came RIGHT next to the car as well as an ostrich and reah! And then when I got home I saw a cinnabar moth which id never seen before, google it or see my myspace, go to profile.

OMG I BOUGHT MY FIRST VERY OWN ELECTRIC HAND MIXER!!!! WOOT! sorry i am really excited cause I love to bake and the wire whisk wasnt working for me! lol!! And the hand mixer was only 6 dollars and some change! ^.^ happy!

Art History is difficult!
I have to remember all this about one section of a church that might not even come up in the exam:

It is filled with light and articulated by slender corinthian columns carrying round Roman arches.
You get a sense of a single homogenous space as the nave is linked with the aisles and the side chapels, although the side chapels are lower in height.

There is a standardisation of detail, Brunelleschi thought the Roman arches he was using were genuine Roman arches from classical antiquity, in fact they were Tuscan Romanesque.

It is in latin cross plan, and Brunelleschi used a square module of crossing to calculate his ground plan, the long axis has six modules, but the aisle bays are half width of those modules. This, coupled with his use of grey pietra serena against white wash walls brings a sense of order and clarity.


WHAT ON EARTH DOES THAT MEAN?

Oh, and it's all about this:



The San Lorenzo Interior, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
Made by Brunelleschi in 1419

full of light and layers of/framed by corinthian columns and round Roman arches. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_order the bit at the top of the columns, or the semetricalness of it i think.

You get a sense of a single homogenous space as the nave is linked with the aisles and the side chapels, although the side chapels are lower in height. - this just means the same as what I put up there, theres that space in the middle and the rest is like clogged up by the arches and columns.

they are basically in a Tuscan Romanesque style.

It is in latin cross plan, and Brunelleschi used a square module of crossing to calculate his ground plan, the long axis has six modules, but the aisle bays are half width of those modules. - I'm not sure but basically he's made it all equal so it would work and look all equal

This, coupled with his use of grey pietra serena against white wash walls brings a sense of order and clarity - even though theres columns and criss crosses it still looks very calm because there's order and proper and relaxing cuz of the colours

I don't know what the San Lorenzo is but San means saint doesn't it? so is it a church? its all prim and proper looking and equal and grand looking because it's an important place that's if it is a church or something important (I just read your post yeeh I'm so clever I guessed about the churchness can't read though)

weee I've been to florence, I rule at art history.

Aww, haha! Thankyou. I knew all that I was just moaning about the ridiculously copius amounts we have to remember on the offchance we get a question on it.

He did another church that looked exactly the same, San Spirito, only it's much different apparently. Boo!

Did you get to see the Santa Maria Novella? My god, it's beautiful!

I don't think so it looks like this nunnery we went to but we never got told the name of the nunnery it had original da vinci in there though it was beautiful inside.

Well I hope that helped, I dunno why I just find it easy explaining these things always need a starting point though. Just make all the other notes you have simpler try to describe what you see, whats kind of obvious, most people cant do art history because its like trick questions. An exam in art well I never!

haven't really been following what ppl have been talking about on this board, anywho I realised I'm going to have to get 5 more needles this year, one for typhoid, one for Hep A, a follow-up Hep A one and 2 more cervical cancer ones! The hep A and typhoid I have to have coz of my trip to China. Fun, fun and more fun....

Yeah, I'm doing my revision alright thanks. Exam tomorrow! And then on Tuesday another on Impressionism.

I gotta get some dates stuck in my head, the understanding is all there, it's just the dates.

dates I can never remember dates! Impressionism mmm COMPLEMENTRY COLOURS lots of blue and orange! GOOD LUCK! you'll do it you little A grade getter!!!!

Shivi - don't worry it will all be over in no time! and then China weeeee.