Author: William GarrattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Loreto the New Nazareth and Its Centenary Jubilee
Author: William GarrattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Loreto the New Nazareth and Its Centenary Jubilee
Author: William GarrattA Cultural Study of Mary and the Annunciation
Author: Gary WallerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book traces the history of the Annunciation, exploring the deep and lasting impact of the event on the Western imagination. Waller explores the Annunciation from its appearance in Luke’s Gospel, to its rise to prominence in religious doctrine and popular culture, and its gradual decline in importance during the Enlightenment.
Memories of My Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Author: M. M.The Secret Lives of Buildings
Author: Edward HollisPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429982101
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shape-shifters. In an inspired refashioning of architectural history, Edward Hollis recounts more than a dozen stories of such metamorphosis, highlighting the way in which even the most familiar structures all change over time into "something rich and strange." The Parthenon, that epitome of a ruined temple, was for centuries a working church and then a mosque; the cathedral of Notre Dame was "restored" to a design that none of its original makers would have recognized. Remains of the Berlin Wall, meanwhile, which was once gleefully smashed and bulldozed, are now treated as precious relics. With The Secret Lives of Buildings, Edward Hollis recounts the most enthralling of these metamorphoses and shows how buildings have come to embody the history of Western culture.
Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Author: Ingrid BaumgärtnerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110588773
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.
Loreto, the New Nazareth and Its Centenary Jubilee
Author: William GarrattPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332404254
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Excerpt from Loreto, the New Nazareth and Its Centenary Jubilee: With the Apostolic Letter of Pope Leo XIII, Felix Domus Nazaretana About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Month
Author: The Irish Monthly
Author: Jacob Primmer in Rome
Author: Jacob PrimmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description