February 01, 2013

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Decrease Average Age In the cathedral of Chartres in France one of the elements most fascinating of the gtica art is found, the vitrais. It is important to stand out that Chartres if detaches for being the only medieval cathedral still to conserve great part of its original vitrais. Tree of Jess, produced in century XI enters the vitrais of Chartres is distinguished it enters the years of 1140 and 1150, that it consists of the representation of the genealogy of Jesus Christ through a family tree, projected one in one of the windows of the cathedral. The vitrais are composites for small fragmentos of colorful glasses forming in the windows a mosaic with diverse colors that symbolically translate the light of the Espirito Santo flooding the interior of the cathedral for a calm clarity and multicolorful, with the pretension to create an inspired environment and to take the expectador to contemplate the deity. The specialization of the hand is noticed in the artistic production of these vitrais of workmanship that started to appear in the Decrease Average Age. First it was necessary to melt the glass adding chemical elements to color to become it translucent; after they were made use the way of plates that after cooled were cut with a diamond tip in the preset format, in order to construct the break-head. But some details were painted the hand; after that these plates were made use of form if to incase one in the others, through a metallic frame call of ' ' profile of chumbo' '. These joined plates would form the great compositions of the windows, the vitrais. In the case of the vitral Tree of Jess the vertical format of the window if adaptou well to the considered subject that was to represent the family tree of Christ from Jess, deriving of the ancestry of the tribe of Jud.
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Brazilian Professor the Tupi is coming back Currently, books of tupi is arriving at the bookstores, courses attracts each time more students. One just-established not governmental organization, the Tupi Here, in the State of So Paulo, already considers the inclusion of the language in the resume of as the degree. the Brazilian public already can attend a film all said in tupi, the Hans Staden, with the participation of famous actors as Stnio Garci'a, Sergio Mamberti and Claude Liz. Great part of these projects must it the pioneering effort of Eduardo de Navarrese Almeida, professor of the College of Letters of the University of So Paulo, the only one in all the country that offers course of tupi old, also called tupi classic, a language that, until century 18, was said for all the inhabitants of the country, including Portuguese and African. On account the dream to keep alive the culture tupi, the Navarrese, founding professor the ONG Tupi Here, already was nicknamed even Policarpo Quaresma, name of the idealistic personage created by the writer Barreto Rasp. In book of Barreto, Quaresma arrived to be interned in a hospice, when trying to make of tupi ' ' official and national language of the people brasileiro' '. Navarrese wait that its modest proposal obtains to include the language tupi in the resumes of the schools of So Paulo. Other followers, as professor Hlder Perri Blacksmith participates of the project, as revisory of the book that Navarrese Eduardo finished to launch, the Modern Method of Old Tupi - the Language of Brazil of the First Centuries. Conceived as a didactic manual for laypeople, the book teaches the writing in such a way how much it says tupi to it, by means of simple phonetic notations, that practically excuse the presence of the professor. In this study, the insistence in detaching the aboriginal toponymy is justified, as much for the necessity of rescue of a lost history in way to the diversity of tracks, since the number of vestiges of a culture is very great, how much for...