Aspects of Architecture

Art can open doors to the world for our students. My fifth-grade class recently took a virtual tour of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow. This unique onion-domed structure is actually eight churches built around a central ninth. My students’ immediate reaction to the colorful and unusual architecture of St. Basil’s was to relate the spiraled and patterned globes to the shape of hot-air balloons.

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