The Art of Church Architecture: The Luminous Darkness of Westminster Cathedral
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Our series on The Art of Church Architecture continues as Kate Banks reflects on ‘The Luminous Darkness of Westminster Cathedral’. For more…
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Series Launch: The Art of Church Architecture
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Ewan Bowlby launches our series on The Art of Church Architecture with this introduction. You may see the associated first piece in…
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Charlemagne in Chartres: Looking at Stained Glass
Light coming through a stained-glass window is one of those effects unique to the church space—we can hardly witness it anywhere else. Despite, or…
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Review: The Ecumenism of Beauty
Timothy Verdon, editor. The Ecumenism of Beauty. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2017, 128pp. $28.99 hardcover. This book brings together a collection of essays on…
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Review: Visions of Mary
Jill K. H. Geoffrion. Visions of Mary: Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral. Paraclete Press, 2017. 192 pp. Colour illlus. ISBN: 978-1-61261-894-4. £17.98…
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Review: Music, Modernity, and God
Jeremy S. Begbie. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, viii + 261 (272) pp., £35.00/$55.00 hardback. Music, Modernity,…
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Movement and Location in the Church Space: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, his paintings, and an “ambulatory imagination”
It is fitting to write a reflection on the idiosyncratic artwork of Pieter Jansz Saenredam from the peculiar comfort of Martyrs Kirk library in…
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