Art & Architecture
The art and architecture of Western Civilization occupy a special place in the story of our people. For our purposes we are combining art and architecture as great architecture is great art. The art and architecture of the West provides a bridge from our past into the present. It is a language of our shared collective memory; a mnemonic transmission modality from past to present. It binds our kinship with Westmen we have never met. As native sons it connects us to our Civilization. It provides the cultural base rock, the foundation for remembering into the future.
Memorials, statuary and architectural structures are the most visible transmitters of our collective cultural memory. What a people chooses to venerate, or not, in its memorials, statuary and architectural structures is indicative of its collective memory. Erase a culture’s memorials and you erase a people’s mnemonic links to its past and to each other.
- Flippo Brunelleschi
- Christopher Wren Part1
- Christopher Wren Part2
- Abbot Suger
- Thomas Cole
- Our History, Our Legacy