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Issue 5 The Medieval Choir Screen in Sacred Space: The Dynamic Interiors of Vezzolano and Breisach

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2017
In their later medieval heyday, choir screens were pivotal centerpieces and focalisers of their sacred environments. Embellished with figural imagery; outfitted with platforms, pulpits, and altars; and rendered visually porous by the presence of large ...
Jacqueline E. Jung
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The Choir-Screen in Canterbury Cathedral [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeological Journal, 1875
The Archaeological Journal, 32, 86 ...
Gilbert Scott, G.
exaly   +3 more sources

A Marginal Note to “Four Sistine Ethiopians?”

open access: yesAethiopica, 2013
With reference to Marco Bonechi’s article in this issue of Aethiopica, the present paper briefly surveys the evidence for the 1481 Ethiopian “embassy” to Pope Sixtus IV and then explores the possibility of identifying Anthony, head of that embassy, with “
Gianfranco Fiaccadori
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The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2017
This paper explores two contexts for Francis Skidmore and George Gilbert Scott's screen at Hereford Cathedral. First, it locates the screen within a succession of choir screens at Hereford from the middle ages to the present, thereby charting the ...
The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory
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The Choir Screen in the Dominican Church of the Holy Trinity in Cracow: Form and Function

open access: yesJournal of the British Archaeological Association, 2023
The paper demonstrates how modern metric survey techniques and digital technologies can contribute to traditional methods of art-historical investigation. The original choir screen in the Dominican church in Cracow, spanning the width of the chancel arch, was built in the mid-13th century.
Marcin Szyma   +4 more
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The gothic temple, its heritage and the architectural presence of the altar in the second half of the 20th century

open access: yesFides et Ratio, 2023
The article defines the role played by the architecture of a Gothic temple in the aspect of the synthesis of the cultural and liturgical image when it concerns the form of the cathedral’s facade, its floor plan culminated with the eastern choir and ...
Mirosław Bogdan
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Internet Gaming Disorder in adolescence: investigating profiles and associated risk factors

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Electronic gaming is a popular free-time activity and its deleterious effects have been considered by the American Psychiatric Association and World Health Organization.
Mirna Macur, Halley M. Pontes
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Resurrection, Re-Imagination, Reconstruction: New Viewpoints on the Hereford Screen

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2017
The Hereford Screen is one of the most complex and intricate choir screens of the Victorian era. Positioned in the gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s main entrance, its glistening metalwork, brass, and terracotta effect surfaces, incrustations ...
Ayla Lepine
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Biserica reformată din Turda Veche: cercetările arheologice din anii 2018–2020

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
Turda, one of the foremost settlements of Transylvania and the seat of the homonymous medieval county, appears in documents ever since the 11th century.
Marcu Istrate, D.   +2 more
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Liturgy and Music in Hereford Cathedral in the Time of Queen Victoria and Beyond

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2017
The Victorian Gothic Revival and its focus on liturgical neo-medievalism inspired the 1860s restoration of the medieval Hereford Cathedral. In this restoration, the new screen played a central part.
Tessa Murdoch
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