Word: gothic
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...wary young traders amid their pellucid clutter of emblematic objects, with an anamorphic blur of a skull floating strangely across the inlaid floor -knows that at once. Together with his older contemporary, Albrecht Dürer, Hol bein represents the point at which German painting shook clear of its Gothic past and its folk ties, entering and interpreting the great Renaissance streams of power and trade, be coming a primary instrument of self-recognition for a new Europe...
Fischer, who hired lawyers and yielded voluntarily to an arrest warrant at week's end, denied that he had forged the diaries. He called the charge "absurd," adding: "I can neither read the Gothic handwriting [used by Hitler] nor write it." That was an odd claim for one who deals in documents of the Nazi period. Fischer insisted that the volumes actually were written by the Führer...
Amidst its hallowed scenery of wrought iron gates, crawling dark green ivy and Gothic halls adorned by little orange and black seals. Princeton University upperclassmen returned last fall to find the pristine center campus quiet and unchanged from generations past. But on the outskirts of Princeton's territory, underclassmen wake each day to clamoring sounds from campus renovation and construction, as the school's new residential college system gets under...
Most people's image of the Divinity School is one of somber, musty, religiosity. Indeed, the long walk up Francis Avenue to the Divinity School campus reinforces this image. One is struck first by the school's geographic isolation and then by its architecture; the looming Gothic presence of Andover Hall, the school's central building, evokes images of monks poring over their scrolls in centuries long past...
...three Episcopal bishops, is a fitting place for eccentric legacies. The campus was destroyed during the Civil War before a student ever enrolled. Afterward, churches in England donated funds to rebuild the school, and Oxford and Cambridge universities gave books for the library. The British influence is still strong. Gothic-style buildings are topped by battlements and covered with ivy. Faculty and honors students stroll along arched walkways in black academic gowns. The bell in Breslin Tower, modeled after Oxford's Magdalen, strikes each hour. The school's 10,000-acre "domain" is something of a feudal fief...