Christo and Jeanne Claude were two married artists. Jeanne Claude died at the age of 74 suffering from a brain aneurysm after a fall. They worked together to mummify the Pont Neuf, to envelop a string of Miami islands in flamingo-pink nylon, to bind the German Reich-stag building in aluminium fabric and to erect 7,503 billowing, saffron "gates" in Central Park, New York.Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon was born in Casablanca, Morocco, where her father, a French general, was stationed at the time. She was born on exactly the same day as her husband and collaborator.
Three of the most famous of their work was the wrapped tree, Completed over the course of several days in November 1998, Wrapped Trees is an exceptional outdoor work that involved the meticulous covering of nearly 180 trees in Basel, Switzerland. The Umbrellas, Consisting of 3,100 yellow and blue umbrellas placed in both California and Japan between 1984 and 1991, The Umbrellas was one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s most ambitious projects yet. The project cost $26 million and required the efforts of thousands of workers and several helicopters to have all of the umbrellas placed in just the right spot. Valley curtain, Designed in 1970 by the dynamic duo, Valley Curtain comprised a gigantic 1,310 foot orange curtain that hung across a valley in Rifle, Colorado. Costing an estimated $400,000 and using a series of iron bars and concrete anchors for support, the first curtain was raised in October 1971 before being torn to pieces by strong winds and even heavier rocks.
The Gothic Cathedral was created by the Goths which were a barbaric tribe who had held power in various regions in Europe. These buildings were built between the fifth and eighth century. The Gothic grew out of the Romanesque architectural style, when both prosperity and peace allowed for several centuries of cultural development and great building schemes. From roughly 1000 to 1400, several significant cathedrals and churches were built, particularly in Britain and France, offering architects and masons a chance to work out ever more complex problems and daring designs.
The most fundamental element of the Gothic style of architecture is the pointed arch.The pointed arch relieved some of the thrust, and therefore, the stress on other structural elements. It then became possible to reduce the size of the columns or piers that supported the arch. So, rather than having massive, drum-like columns as in the Romanesque churches, the new columns could be more slender.
