Chapel

When Church and Family Collide The giant, sea foam green building with the cross on the front is where I learned about myself and spent the first half of my life. The last time I went to visit it was the year I started high school. The hallways that echoed with my laughs and the memories of my childhood now looked so small. The room with the music controls my dad used to use so the voice of the choir could be heard by all did not excite me as much. No more did the wall made of rocks look…

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It automatically makes the reader assume that the shooting was caused by the student’s religion, before even reading the article. Zeba Khan the writer of this article starts it off by saying that there have been a discussion on whether the Chapel Hill shooting was caused by a parking dispute or by religion (Khan, P.1). He uses bias in his tone and in his word choices he goes straight out and says: “Let's be real. People don't die over parking spots.” (Khan, P.1) He is basically telling people…

The Boger Gallery and Williams Memorial Chapel are displaying the unique work of Stephen Watson, an artist whose medium is ground spices. Watson’s spice art installments are made by sprinkling powdered spices and herbs onto pieces of precut plexiglass that are laid on the floor. Custom designed stencils are used to layer the spices and create intricate patterns and designs. Watson said he has been working with spices exclusively for almost two years and there was a journey that brought him to…

Located inside The Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the Magi Chapel is home to Benozzo Gozzoli’s famous frescoed walls. The Procession of the Magi, which is a series of frescoes spanning over three walls of the main room, depict portrayals such as the Shepherds awaiting the announcement, which is located above the doors of the vestries. The walls of the small Scarsella are decorated with the Angels in adoration as well as the symbols of the Four Evangelists behind the altar. The narrative begins outside…

Personification, a human representation of an idea , features prominently in the dado frescoes (painted by the Giotto workshop) of the Scrovegni Chapel. In the chapel, The Last Judgement fresco lies above the exit depicting the redeemed saints on Christ’s left and the damned souls on Christ’s right. Corresponding to the two groups are frescoes depicting personifications of seven virtues on the left wall and of seven vices on the right wall. The individual frescoes include enough detail to…

display. As an artist he had portrayed no censorship to the nudity of his work to portray that there was no shame in history. In the picture above of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel you can see that within the painting there are depictions of the old testament like when Adam and Eve when they were being tempted to sin. The Sistine Chapel ceiling is an example of how the art work that derived from the Renaissance was driven by religious ideology; however, over time the nudity didn’t align with the…

If you are a current or a former student at Mississippi College, you know about the required chapel. It is a time for students to have a break from their busy day to worship. It is once a week for one hour and you must complete four semesters to be able to graduate. You have three skips a semester. The service is usually the same thing every week. A local preacher or youth minister will have roughly a thirty-minute devotional. On topics ranging from praying to spreading his word. Then…

experience, of a museum, so you can truly see the amount of work that goes on seen before an exhibition takes place. Some consider the tradition of conservation of cultural heritage in Europe to have begun in 1565 with the restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes, but more ancient examples include the work of Cassiodorus. The care of art or historical peace’s has a long history, one that primarily focused on fixing or mending art for its aesthetic enjoyment, but originally the restoration of…

A typical, and one of the most beautiful, examples of the Renaissance period is the Pazzi Chapel in Florence, Italy. There is a strong emphasis on symmetry and proportion in the design of this building. There is plenty of repetition of geometric shapes, circles, and squares. It is this repetition of shapes and the simple colours within the building that make it harmonious. The chapel is very simplistic with a sense of openness, something that also mirrors the sense of harmony typical of…