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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

Het die Reformasie die leer gered en aanbidding verloor?

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2004
Little information is available on the relation between doctrine and liturgy during and after the Reformation. The concept “doctrine” relates to what is, since Emanuel Kant, labelled as theory and “liturgy” refers to practice as if these concepts were ...
B. Spoelstra
doaj   +1 more source

‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

A church musician\u27s resource guide to the available resources from the Choral Public Domain Library for the Liturgical Year A

open access: yes, 2012
The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) represents a free resource to the church musician, and yet, as a user-edited database, has its limitations. This monograph provides a measure of quality control of the broad database presenting a usable resource ...
Trotta, Michael John
core   +2 more sources

Conservation issues of large rolled paintings on the Portuguese altarpieces

open access: yesCeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2013
This article focuses on the study of the historical context and the conservation issues of large rolled paintings on the Portuguese altarpieces of the 18th to 20th centuries, emphasizing their originality and dynamism.
Rita Macedo Moreira
doaj   +1 more source

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

The Bodily and Multi-Sensory Experiences of Cistercian Nuns: The Collective Liturgy and Ceremonies of the Holy Week in Lichtenthal

open access: yesReligions
Holy Week, the most significant period of the Christian liturgical year, was marked by solemn and complex rituals enacted within the sacred spaces of medieval religious communities.
Davide Tramarin
doaj   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Archive of Cultural-Historic Heritage of Belarus: Certification of Bells Cast During 16th-19th Centuries

open access: yesDigital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, 2016
The article is a summary of a multi-year research into certification of bells of 16 th - early 20 th centuries collected as a result of liturgical instruments study of 287 bell towers, churches and museums.
Elena G. Shatko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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