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Sacrament and sculpture: liturgical influences on the choir screen of modena cathedral
Material Religion, 2008ABSTRACTThe twelfth-century choir screen, or pontile, sculpted with Passion scenes by the Campionesi for Modena Cathedral, Italy, dominates the nave and dictates both visual and physical access to the sacred east end of the church. In the past, such monuments were viewed primarily as barriers between the privileged clerics and the laity but recently ...
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James Wyatt's Choir Screen at Salisbury Cathedral Reconsidered
Architectural History, 1984Long before its completion in 1792 James Wyatt’s restoration of Salisbury Cathedral was the subject of fierce debate within antiquarian circles. Criticism of Wyatt’s activities was at first directed at the destruction of antiquities they involved, but attention also focused on the alleged inadequacies of the Wyatt Gothic style, a criticism inspired by ...
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2007
Marking the boundary of nave and choir, respective domains of laity and clergy in medieval churches, the Gothic choir screen at once reinforced social distinctions and provided a stable, unifying focus during liturgical rituals. This chapter concentrates on the portrayal of Jewish men in the Passion narrative on the finest thirteenth-century choir ...
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Marking the boundary of nave and choir, respective domains of laity and clergy in medieval churches, the Gothic choir screen at once reinforced social distinctions and provided a stable, unifying focus during liturgical rituals. This chapter concentrates on the portrayal of Jewish men in the Passion narrative on the finest thirteenth-century choir ...
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, 2011 A Re-appraisal of the Iconography of the Choir Screen at King's College Chapel, Cambridge
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A New Date for the Choir Screen from Valladolid
Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1978THE NEED FOR ORIENTING artistic investigation toward the study of private patronage and its direct effect on the history of the fine arts is becoming ever more evident. In Spain, this source has yet to be fully exploited; when it is, many present unknowns will undoubtedly be clarified.
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Fragments of a 13th-century choir screen at Dundrennan Abbey
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2008The Cistercian Abbey at Dundrennan (NX747 474) has a very large collection of ex situ carved and moulded stones. While this collection was being catalogued (2003–6), a group of about 20 pieces, most of them of a substantial size, were found to be related and are now stored in one of the vaults along the west side of the cloisters at Dundrennan.
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2023
This thesis reconstructs the interior spaces of mendicant churches from medieval Pisa, particularly utilising digital technologies to study destroyed choir screens. Known as *tramezzo* screens, they played a fundamental role in the formation of sacred space, serving to articulate various liturgical areas whilst containing significant works of ...
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This thesis reconstructs the interior spaces of mendicant churches from medieval Pisa, particularly utilising digital technologies to study destroyed choir screens. Known as *tramezzo* screens, they played a fundamental role in the formation of sacred space, serving to articulate various liturgical areas whilst containing significant works of ...
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Reframing the Bible: Genesis and Exodus on Toledo Cathedral's Fourteenth-Century Choir Screen
Gesta, 2011Toledo Cathedral's stone choir screen was carved by local artists in the late fourteenth century, during a period of heightened anti-Jewish rhetoric and widespread conversion. Its fifty-six large reliefs show stories from Genesis and Exodus, and stand out from contemporary choir screens and sculpted ensembles owing to the inclusion of rarely depicted ...
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