Architecture for the Shroud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture for the Shroud write by John Beldon Scott. This book was released on 2003-03. Architecture for the Shroud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ "painted in his own blood," the Shroud remains an object of intense debate and notoriety yet today. In this amply illustrated volume, John Beldon Scott traces the history of the unique relic, focusing especially on the black-marble and gilt-bronze structure Guarino Guarini designed to house and exhibit it. A key Baroque monument, the chapel comprises many unusual architectural features, which Scott identifies and explains, particulary how the chapel's unprecedented geometry and bizarre imagery convey to the viewer the supernatural powers of the object enshrined there. Drawing on early plans and documents, he demonstrates how the architect's design mirrors the Shroud's strange history as well as political aspirations of its owners, the Dukes of Savoy. Exhibiting it ritually, the Savoy prized their relic with its godly vestige as a means to link their dynasty with divine purposes. Guarini, too, promoted this end by fashioning an illusionary world and sacred space that positioned the duke visually so that he appeared close to the Shroud during its ceremonial display. Finally, Scott describes how the additional need for an outdoor stage for the public showing of the relic to the thousands who came to Turin to see it also helped shape the urban plan of the city and its transformation into the Savoyard capital. Exploring the mystique of this enigmatic relic and investigating its architectural and urban history for the first time, Architecture for the Shroud will appeal to anyone curious about the textile, its display, and the architectural settings designed to enhance its veneration and boost the political agenda of the ruling family.
The Shroud at Court
The Shroud at Court - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shroud at Court write by . This book was released on 2019-03-27. The Shroud at Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Shroud at the Court analyses the ties between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, when rituals, ceremonies, and images made the relic an essential source of legitimacy and propaganda for the Savoy dynasty.
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land write by Kathryn Blair Moore. This book was released on 2017-02-27. The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.
Guarino Guarini and His Architecture
Guarino Guarini and His Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guarino Guarini and His Architecture write by Harold Alan Meek. This book was released on 1988-01-01. Guarino Guarini and His Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geïllustreerde studie over het werk van de Italiaanse architect (1624-1683).
Architecture at the End of the Earth
Architecture at the End of the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture at the End of the Earth write by William Craft Brumfield. This book was released on 2015-05-29. Architecture at the End of the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original wooden and brick churches and homes in the region's ancient villages and towns still stand. Featuring nearly two hundred full color photographs of these beautiful centuries-old structures, Architecture at the End of the Earth is the most recent addition to William Craft Brumfield's ongoing project to photographically document all aspects of Russian architecture. The architectural masterpieces Brumfield photographed are diverse: they range from humble chapels to grand cathedrals, buildings that are either dilapidated or well cared for, and structures repurposed during the Soviet era. Included are onion-domed wooden churches such as the Church of the Dormition, built in 1674 in Varzuga; the massive walled Transfiguration Monastery on Great Solovetsky Island, which dates to the mid-1550s; the Ferapontov-Nativity Monastery's frescoes, painted in 1502 by Dionisy, one of Russia's greatest medieval painters; nineteenth-century log houses, both rustic and ornate; and the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Vologda, which was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in the 1560s. The text that introduces the photographs outlines the region's significance to Russian history and culture. Brumfield is challenged by the immense difficulty of accessing the Russian North, and recounts traversing sketchy roads, crossing silt-clogged rivers on barges and ferries, improvising travel arrangements, being delayed by severe snowstorms, and seeing the region from the air aboard the small planes he needs to reach remote areas. The buildings Brumfield photographed, some of which lie in near ruin, are at constant risk due to local indifference and vandalism, a lack of maintenance funds, clumsy restorations, or changes in local and national priorities. Brumfield is concerned with their futures and hopes that the region's beautiful and vulnerable achievements of master Russian carpenters will be preserved. Architecture at the End of the Earth is at once an art book, a travel guide, and a personal document about the discovery of this bleak but beautiful region of Russia that most readers will see here for the first time.
