The purpose of religious art was to help people worship. A specific form of flying buttresses composed of an arched structure to hold up a wall. Other religious arts were cathedrals, gargoyles, nave, and transept passage.
Education
School took place in monasteries, convents, and cathedrals. The church taught people to guide by faith, this pattern was established under Charlemagne who encouraged the church to teach people to read and write. Also most of the students in church/schools were sons of nobles who were studying for careers.
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The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
