00:00 This passage is entitled Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance. 00:05 This is a humanities passage. 00:07 And one thing that we'll be doing is we'll be looking for how to distinguish aesthetic aspects of architecture, as opposed to structural things. 00:17 For architecture passages, you won't be wanting to examine whether buildings have aspects which are aesthetic, as opposed to be structural. 00:27 Sometimes you'll see things that fit both needs, such as arches. 00:32 Then we'll be looking for those comparisons across the ideas, perhaps between different time periods that things were built or across different styles within the same time period. 00:44 Lastly, a solid three dimensional reasoning and visualization skill set would be a plus for these types of passages. 00:51 In the first paragraph, the author discusses these things called shafts. 00:55 It's a little bit unclear what they are. 00:57 But if we need to understand them we can maybe use question context. 01:03 In order to solidify our understanding of what a shaft is, we maybe don't need all of the specific details just yet. 01:10 In the second paragraph, we see that the column is often employed in transitional and E. churches as a substitute for peers carrying arches. 01:19 Again, we don't know everything about what peers are just yet, but we know the context come back to if they are tested. 01:26 We go on to state in every period, small columns are freely used as ornamental features. 01:32 I thought that was just a pretty clear statement about what small columns are. 01:36 So those I do understand, and those I should be able to answer. 01:40 Paragraph three states, every column is divided naturally into three parts, its base or foot; its shaft which warns the main body; and its capital, or head. 01:51 I thought this just very neatly delineated exactly what column is and could be useful to come back to. 01:57 And then we discuss each of these components part of the base usually consisted of a flat stone. 02:04 And then I highlighted a few more instances where that discussion on the base was discussed further. 02:11 I've highlighted throughout in various portions, the different periods that are referred to just in case we're asking about a specific period of architecture. 02:20 The next paragraph states, the proportions of shafts varied extraordinarily; they were, as a rule, extremely slender when their purpose was purely decorative, and comparatively sturdy, when they really served the carry a weight. 02:33 Now, I really do get a greater understanding of what a shaft is. 02:38 In the final paragraph, we discuss the capital, which is one of the features which a student may make use of as an indication of date and style things. 02:47 This is one of those things that really gets into connections between ideas. 02:51 So I thought it was a great kind of litmus test for something I might come back to when trying to examine something that is important, something that is delineated of date and style. 03:02 I could come back to this discussion on capital. 03:05 Lastly, we are told that on top of the bell, which is discussed as being this part of the capital, is placed the abacus, a flat bottom block of stone upon the upper surface of which built superstructure, or is laid the beam or block which the column has to support. 03:23 With that, I think we're ready to go to the questions.
The lecture Architecture – Gothic and Renaissance: Passage 5 by Lincoln Smith is from the course CARS Passage Walkthroughs.
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