La condición sacra del desacralizado arte contemporáneo [PDF]
This article tries to explain a current typical paradox: contemporary art, although desacralized by modern secularism and the application of Enlightenment reason to every field of life, still keeps many of its former sacred features. This sacrality is analyzed from three different points of view tied to three main elements of art, understanding the ...
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Three published books of sermons delivered in Malta between 1694 and 1754 [PDF]
The identification of texts of sermons delivered in Malta during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries would make possible a study of the oratorical styles, themes treated, and languages used in their delivery.
Zammit, William
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Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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El conjunto provincial de culto imperial de Augusta Emerita [PDF]
Ponencia presentada al Congreso Internacional Culto Imperial: política y poder, celebrado en Mérida del 18 al 20 de mayo de 2006 y tambien presentada junto a Antonio Pizzo al IV Simposio Internacional de Arqueología de Mérida: Santuarios, oppida y ...
Mateos Cruz, Pedro
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Diálogos abertos: Cândido Portinari, Mino Cerezo Barredo e Cláudio Pastro em Batatais
RESUMO Os contextos políticos e sociais que permitiram a produção de três importantes acervos de arte sacra para a cidade de Batatais, interior do estado de São Paulo, entre 1950 e 2010, serão considerados neste artigo pelos argumentos dos próprios ...
Andréa Franzoni Tostes
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Orations on the victory of the Order of St John over the Turks in 1565 and on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of Valletta in 1566 [PDF]
The first Chapter General meeting of the Order of St John held after the victory over the Turks in the Great Siege of 1565, took place on 10 February of the following year. Before dealing with the agenda of the day, orations were delivered.
Zammit Ciantar, Joe
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APARECIDA, UM SANTUÁRIO QUE DÁ QUE PENSAR: ANÁLISE NO HORIZONTE DO REALISMO ZUBIRIANO
O Santuário de Aparecida é até hoje o maior santuário mariano do mundo. Como espaço sagrado tem um diferencial que o torna paradigma e espelho do Concílio Vaticano II. Neste artigo vamos desenvolver uma análise do Santuário, que poderia ser no pensamento
Valeriano dos Santos Costas +1 more
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A small intruder. A Medieval marble winged lion from Ravello [PDF]
An image of a 12th century marble winged lion was provocatively included among the slides accompanying a lecture by the author at a recent conference at the American Academy in Rome to illustrate Umberto Scerrato’s work on Islamic archaeology and art ...
Fontana, Maria Vittoria
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Spazio sacro e fondazione della comunità. Il tragico òikos dei villaggi di fondazione del fascismo [PDF]
La prima edizione di questo testo è apparsa − in una versione più ridotta −, nel volume: Pasquale Culotta, Giuliano Gresleri, Glauco Gresleri (a cura di), Città di fondazione e “Plantatio Ecclesiae”, Compositori, Bologna 2007, pp. 214-236.
Massaretti, Pier Giorgio
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