首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The Panorama is not the first model of New York. In 1845 E. Porter Belden, a savvy local who had written the best city guide of
The Panorama is not the first model of New York. In 1845 E. Porter Belden, a savvy local who had written the best city guide of
admin
2011-01-10
35
问题
The Panorama is not the first model of New York. In 1845 E. Porter Belden, a savvy local who had written the best city guide of its day, set 150 artists, craftsmen, and sculptors to work on what an advertisement in his guide described as "a perfect facsimile of New York, representing every street, lane, building, shed, park, fence, bee, and every other object in the city." This "Great w0rk of art," Belden said, distilled "over 200, 000 buildings, including Houses, Stores and Rear-Buildings" and two and a half million windows and doors into a twenty-by-twenty-four-foot miniature that encompassed the metropolis below Thirty-second Street and parts of Brooklyn and Governors Island, all basking under a nearly fifteen-foot-high Gothic canopy decorated with 0il paintings of "the leading business establishments and places of note in the city." Alas, every trace of it has vanished.
Of course Belden’s prodigy was far from the first display of model buildings. Since antiquity architects and builders have used miniatures m solve design problems and win support from patrons and public. A recent show at die National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., featured fourteen models created by Renaissance architects, including the six-ton, fifteen-foot-high model of St. Peter’s that Antonio da Sangallo the Younger built for the pope.
Beyond their uses as design tools and propaganda, models have always possessed a curious power to enchant and excite. The sculptor Teremy Lebensohn was describing architectural models but could have been characterizing all miniatures when he wrote, "The model offers us a Gulliver’s view of a Lilliputian world, its seduction of scale reinforcing the sense of our powers to control the environment, whether it be unbroken countryside, a city block or the interior of a room."
A model 0fthe 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition presented to the city in 1889 is unique in that some of the buildings and details are made of brass and that it is still on display in the basement of what was the Liberal Arts Building at the fair in Philadelphia’s Fairmont Park.
The San Francisco World’s Fair of 1915 featured another New York City model, 550 feet square and complete with a lighting system that highlighted the city’s major features. City models have also miniaturized Denver, San Diego, and San Francisco, the Denver one built during the 1930s with WPA funding. A re-creation of the city as it appeared in 1860, it includes figures of men, women, and children in period costumes, along with animals and assorted wagons, and is now on display at the Colorado History Museum in Denver.
San Diego’s model, in Old Town State Historic Park, was built by Jo Toigo and completed in the 1970s and depicts that city’s Old Town section as it looked a century earlier. Like the Denver model, it includes people, animals and vehicles.
A model of San Francisco is in the Environmental Simulation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Not a realistic model in the true sense of the word, it represents the buildings and land contours of the city and has been used to study patterns of sunlight and shadow and the flower of wind caused by San Francisco’s many hills. The computer’s ability to simulate the same effects has diminished the model’s importance, and its future is uncertain.
New materials and techniques have now brought the craft of architectural models to an impressive level. Computer-controlled lasers and photo-etching (the process invented to create the Panorama’s bridges) allow model makers to create presentations pieces of astonishing realism.
It can be inferred from the passage that models ______.
选项
A、are only used for exhibition
B、can not be treated as work of art
C、always serve as a means of making money for architects
D、have helped architects and builders in various ways
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/TnQYFFFM
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
Onceapictureisprovedtobeaforgery,itbecomesquite______.
Thedoctor’s______wasthatsheshouldgoandseethespecialistinthisfield.
OfalltheemployedworkersintheUnitedStates,12.5millionarepartofatemporaryworkforce.TheUnitedStatesBureauofLa
OfalltheemployedworkersintheUnitedStates,12.5millionarepartofatemporaryworkforce.TheUnitedStatesBureauofLa
EQEQisinnate.Infantsasyoungasthreemonthsshowempathy.Nowhereisthediscussionofemotionalintelligencemorep
Thehumanintelligencethatcreatedindustrialcivilizationnowhastheassignmentofmakingthecivilization______man’sbasicn
Followingthenewdiscovery,thescientistshadfinallyprecludedthedoubtsonthevalidityofthetheory.
Supportersofgeneticengineeringhavearguedthatthisapplicationofscienceallowsfarmerstogrowcropsmoreefficientlyand
上个世纪70年代末,我参加了第四次全国文代会,大会上小平同志致辞时获得的长时间的热烈掌声给我留下了极深的印象。这次大会是文艺界经历十年浩劫后的第一次盛会,也是小平同志复出后第一次代表党中央、国务院同广大文艺工作者见面。1960年的第三次文代会后,
A、Wecannotreachanagreement,letaloneaspokenpromise.B、We’dbetterdraftandthensignawrittenagreement.C、Wegenerall
随机试题
什么是金融资本和金融寡头?简述金融寡头在经济和政治上统治的实现方式。
某小学一年级学生第一恒磨牙患龋率11.5%,最适宜的防龋措施是
关于急性输血溶血反应叙述不正确的是
既能利水通淋,又能通经下乳的药物是
男,32岁。近5个月来出现尿频、尿不尽、尿道“滴白”及肛周隐痛不适,多次检查尿常规WBCl~3个/HP。前列腺液常规:前列腺液常规:WBC>10个/HP,卵磷脂小体(+++)/HP,前列腺液培养阴性,血常规无异常。诊断首先考虑为()
使用B型橡胶止水带的节点是:
金融机构以富有的客户为中心,根据其需求来提供产品,这是指()。
与商业信用相比,银行信用具有的特点不包括( )。
Whereisthenapkinnormallyplacedduringthemeal?Allofthefollowingarefingerfoodsexcept
Malawi’sGreenGoldTheycallit"GreenGold"inMalawi.Tobaccorakesinmorethan70percentofMalawi’sforeignexchange
最新回复
(
0
)