This summer I got my license and took a little adventure. My two friends Cloe, Teya, and I were bored and didn’t have anything to do, so we decided to go to Maryville. We went to Workman’s Chapel, which is right outside of Maryville. Workman’s Chapel is an old haunted church and cemetery. The story behind Workman’s Chapel is that a preacher stabbed a woman in a white dress to death and hid the knife under the floor boards of the church.…
The Merode Altarpiece resides in three hinged panels in the format of triptych. The right panel characterizes Joseph in his workshop; the center and most significant panel display the Annunciation itself, and it's two main individuals Mary and Archangel Gabriel; the left panel illustrates the donor and his wife. The white lilies and the white towel both imply to Mary's purity. Joseph is pictured working in his carpentry workshop, surrounded by symbolic tools. The saw hints at the tool that St Peter used to cut the ear off of Malchus, during the betrayal and arrest of Christ.…
He reworked these ideas introduced to the world the now known Gothic architecture. Gothic architecture was a big role-player during the Renaissance. But everything started when Suger decided to reinvent the traditional heavy Romanesque Abbey Church of Saint-Denis into a free-flowing monastic building. In this essay I will be talking about the Capetian dynasty’s background, the history of the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis and the significance of the place, Abbot Suger’s ties with the Capetian Kings, and Abbot Suger’s plans for the Royal Abbey. I will be ending this analysis with the legacy left behind by the influence of the Abbot and the Abbey.…
The church was originally called “The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin” but was soon changed to “St Basil’s Cathedral.” St Basil’s Cathedral is a beautiful church. The vivid colors give it a very unique look. It seems unreal due to how bright it is until you see it in person. The way it looks down at the townspeople gives the town a happy feel.…
Andrew Jazbani Mr. Keithley Sacraments/Disciples-3 9 March 2015 Synthesis Essay “[Through the sacraments] the soul is cured from the weakness of its vices” (Bonaventure 212). These words, appearing in St. Bonaventure’s “Breviloquium”, exemplify the true meaning behind the sacraments. Each sacrament in the Catholic faith is designed to make people into holier human beings, and allow for believers to learn more thoroughly and deeply about God. In addition, sacraments provide a higher ground on which followers worship and come closer to God on a greater level.…
But, in fact it is actually made up of several open spaces combined altogether to make up the tremendous open spacing that resembles structures from that era. Similar to structures in the past, other structural considerations with this cathedral would be the statues mounted to walls, the Stations of the Cross, relics, crosses, carved figures, and wall imagery which is unique to its display at St Raphael. Other locations of interest that are present at this church is the Sacristry and the Reconciliation Chapel which is placed prominently within the spacious layout and design of the church. Once again, unique and varies from location to location based on overall design of the structure.…
Nuns and monks played many different roles in early medieval society. The primary duty of both monks and nuns were to pray, also they would attend different services throughout the day and nighttime. The monks had to take three vows before they entered the monastery. Poverty: All money owned by the monks went to the monastery. Chastity: No monk could marry.…
The Chapel of Saint John is two stories, and is long and semi-circular in shape. Dozens of massive columns rooted on the ground floor support the upper gallery. Today, it still stands at 90 feet tall, still looking over the city. There is a moat and two Roman construction defensive curtain walls, which makes a concentric pattern around the fortress. The Traitor's Gate was built during a renovation of the Tower as an additional entrance between 1275 and 1279 during the reign of Edward I.…
Bahari is a collection of Pharaonic temples and tombs located on the West Bank of the Nile opposite Luxor in Egypt Constructed the monastery of Queen Hatshepsut to perform the rituals that benefit in either the name of the monastery is the maritime modern Arabic name this region in the seventh century after use this temple by Coptic monasteries. The temple consists of three mounting strips dividing them by the ascendant…
The Rothko Chapel, located in Houston, Texas, presents a deceptively simple exterior. The ungarnished brick walls lack intrigue or grandeur, the doorway is simply a means of entrance rather than a spectacle, yet over 55,000 visitors are drawn to the location every year (YouTube). The sanctuary inside is just as plain, aside from fourteen imposing murals created by the chapel’s namesake, Mark Rothko. They adorn bare walls, constantly shifting appearance with the light cast from the chapel’s skylight (Dowell). They seem to be the only lively aspects of an otherwise static place.…
During the 3rd and 4th centuries controversy arose among the leaders and population due to the rising questioning of the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ. At the beginning of the fourth century, the First Council of Nicaea was convened to come against the heretical teachings of Arius. Arius, a presbyter from Alexandria, along with his followers, believed that “before [the Son] was begotten or created or defined or established, he was not for he was not unbegotten and that the Son had a beginning but God has no beginning” (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002.…
Destruction- Individually she had a lot to overcome in her future. She had to learn how to live with one leg and not let it stop her. She was emotionally destructed because she did not have much family because they all died during the bombing. Her fiance left her because of what was going on in her life.…
In fact, Maurice de Sully wanted to dedicate the cathedral to Mary, hence the name “Our lady of Paris.” Notre Dame has been a major symbol…
This portrait has a well-proportioned space. Its feature has a nave that can be twice the width of the isles. There is a flight of twelve steps that leads up to the apse. St. Apollinare is in the center of the building to show his importance. The landscape shows a similarity of how we can define paradise with the lower region of the apse with a meadow that is filled with trees, bushes, flowers, birds, and lambs.…
The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, popularly known as St. Basil Cathedral, is located in Moscow Russia. The Cathedral goes by many names but one of the first official names came from the capture of Kazan that occurred on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. The Russians called it Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat. It later became known as what we call it today. The construction began in 1555 and was completed in 1561.…