1. Read the text and translate it into Ukrainian.
2. Answer the following questions:
1. Where is the museum housed?
2. How does the portico look like?
3. When was the museum opened?
4. What does the museum illustrate?
5. Where were ceramic tiles used before Portugal?
6. What influences did Portuguese tile work have?
7. When did Portuguese ceramic tile art really become established in its own right?
8. Who was one of the most famous Portuguese artists who painted mythological scenes?
9. What does the panel of Lisbon feature?
10. Who was contemporary Portuguese ceramic art created by?
3. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following words and phrases:
to threaten
to undergo changes
portico
trilobite arch
ranged around the cloister
relatively recent
tile museum
the bulk of acquisitions
to include contemporary work
to evolve
to follow influences from
altar
to show the freedom of design
manganese pattern
to deserve special mention
to feature repetitive motifs
4. Give English equivalents of the following words and phrases:
зазнавати змін
під час царювання
шпіц
точна копія оригіналу
яскравий приклад
святий
позолочене дерев’яне різьблення
обговорювати ідею
набувати статус
глазур
кахель
поточний час
розвиватися
додавати велич
світська архітектура
незважаючи на факт
сучасний стиль
5. Make up sentences of your own with the given words and phrases.
6. Match a line in A with a line in B.
A |
B |
to undergo |
to get or gain something |
portico |
magnificence, splendour |
relatively |
clean |
to moot |
to experience, endure, or sustain |
to acquire |
to develop or cause to develop gradually |
grandeur |
an ornamental screen like structure above and behind an altar |
to evolve |
to be entitled to or worthy of |
pure |
in comparison to something else, not absolutely |
to deserve |
to suggest or bring up for debate |
retable |
a covered walkway in the form of a roof supported by columns or pillars |
7. Summarize the text in English. Unit 46 text
The Duomo Cathedral
The religious heart and symbol of the city of Milan, the Duomo, dedicated to the birth of the Virgin Mary, stands on the 19th-century square of the same name which houses the bronze statue of Victor Emmanuel II on horseback (Ercole Rosa, 1878). Built in marble in the late Gothic style, its size is spectacular (158 m long and a maximum width of 93 m for a total surface area of over 11,000 square metres). The 17th-century facade is divided into five bays with six buttresses decorated with statues and crowned by spires. The support plinths are decorated with biblical or symbolical reliefs (17th-19th centuries). Above each of the five entrance portals (17th century) is a 17th-century window: the one above the largest portal, with a 1790 balcony, has in turn, like the two adjacent ones, another large 19th century Gothic window above it. The portals are decorated with reliefs created between the 16th and the 17th centuries to drawings by Cerano, while the bronze doors are the work of Italian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. The sides of the building, built between the 15th and the 18th centuries, are also cadenced by buttresses with spires and tall windows. The part corresponding to the transept has additionally, compared to the rest of the building, two double buttresses with internal staircases. The top is cadenced by sloping roofs and with an evocative sequence of rampant arches. From the terraces, which provide a splendid view of the city and surrounding plain, the octagonal lantern by Amadeo (15th-16th century) can be admired, surmounted in the 1860's by a spire (108.5 m) on which the gilded statue of the "Madonnina" (small Madonna) by Giuseppe Perego (1774) was later placed. The great
polygonal apse (end of the 14th - beginning of the 15th century) is the oldest part of the Duomo: flanked by the two sacristies, it has three large windows whose thin marble ribbing (early 15th century) form a huge rose-window in each ogive. The sides and the apse of the Duomo offer a comprehensive overview of the art of statues from the 14th to the 19th centuries with more than two
