Monday, May 16, 2011

What Still has an Influence on Today?: Art

Medieval art in castles very much has an influence on today. For example, stained glass still happens today and so does weaving, not necessarily in the form of tapestry though. Even though the exact art doesn’t continue castle art was beautiful. Some of the more common were tapestries, the keep even have a tapestry sewing room. They were made of colored wool and other fabrics and made into awesome deigns. They were sewn HUGE so they could cover large blank spaces on the castle walls.

Especially in castles and churches stained glass was popular. It was made of several pieces of colored glass. The glass was arranged to make people or scenes that were religious. When the sun shown throught the glass the glass the colors shined onto the people in the church or castle. Even today there is stained glass, I even have some in my house, but it's not religious.



6 comments:

  1. Hmm, I wonder what it would have lookwd like when the light from the windows shined on the people in the church. This post really made me interested. Good job!

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  2. I had no idea stained glass was started in Medieval times! That stuff looks really cool. And I didn't know weaving was started back then also! very cool....

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  3. I learned alot from this post. I didn't know they were so into art but clearly they were really good at it! I never knew they invented any of those things like the stained glass. Good job on this one!

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  4. I agree with Kate! This was a really good post! You had lots of great detail and information in this one! I learned many things and I liked hearing about some of the things they invented.

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  5. I didn't know stained glass was first made in Medieval times!! I wonder how the stained glass from the Medieval times weere different from now?!

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  6. That was an awesome post! I was diffinatly interested! great job <3 I think you did some really awesome research.

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