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A Nativity Cycle for the Choir Screen of San Marco, Venice
Convivium, 2020The article offers new evidence concerning a set of sculptures carved in pietra d’Aurisina for the Basilica of San Marco in Venice.
Ludovico V. Geymonat, Lorenzo Lazzarini
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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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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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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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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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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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One pontile, two pontili: the choir screens of Modena Cathedral
Renaissance Studies, 2005As a living monument, Modena Cathedral has been subjected to numerous alterations since its foundation in the eleventh century. The choir screens, or pontili, demarcating the edge of the presbytery are one part of the church that underwent radical changes as they were adapted, removed, reused, and replaced.
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Renaissance Quarterly, 2016
AbstractThis essay contends that Donatello’s High Altar at the Santo in Padua represents the Immaculate Virgin, reflecting a controversial doctrine of burgeoning interest in fifteenth-century Italy that she was exempted from original sin prior to the first moment of her conception.
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AbstractThis essay contends that Donatello’s High Altar at the Santo in Padua represents the Immaculate Virgin, reflecting a controversial doctrine of burgeoning interest in fifteenth-century Italy that she was exempted from original sin prior to the first moment of her conception.
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The Commissioners of the “San Marco-Type” Choir Screens Across Stato da mar
2018The so-called “Venetian-type” of the choir screen, embodied in the late fourteenth-century iconostasi of San Marco, has been recognised as part of the symbolic imagery of the political establishment in the Venetian newly acquired territories. The emulation of the San Marco model can be traced in a number of fifteenth- century churches both in ...
Marinković, Ana, Marušić, Matko
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