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Merovingian Religious Architecture
2020For nearly 270 years, between the end of the Roman Empire and the advent of the Carolingian dynasty, the Merovingian territories experienced an intense flowering of religious construction, which recent archaeology has documented with increasing detail.
P. Chevalier
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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture, 2021
This chapter provides a review of major developments in Byzantine religious architecture. During the long period of Byzantine history, ecclesiastical buildings manifested the highest societal aspirations both by their cultural importance and by their ...
M. Mihaljević
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This chapter provides a review of major developments in Byzantine religious architecture. During the long period of Byzantine history, ecclesiastical buildings manifested the highest societal aspirations both by their cultural importance and by their ...
M. Mihaljević
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Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC
, 2016(Fernández-Gotz and Krausse, p. 280). If the connection of the fortification at Colle Rotondo and possibly other sites in central and northern Italy with this technique and with central European and Atlantic Europe fortifications will be confirmed, maybe
Charlotte R. Potts
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From Yezidism to Islam: Religious Architecture of the Mahmudî Dynasty in Khoshâb
, 2016The Yezidi Mahmudi Dynasty controlled Khoshâb and surrounding area between Van, Nakhchivân and Marâgha during almost five centuries, from the end of the 14th century to the second half of the 19th century.
Birgül Açikyildiz-Şengül
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Marcel Breuer: On Religious Architecture
Art Journal, 1979From 1961–68, the St. Francis de Sales Church was constructed in Muskegon, Michigan. This expressive and technologically daring structure was designed by Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard using a revolutionary new design concept.The facade of the church proper is a trapezoid, banner-like shape.
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Contemporary Religious Architecture in Zagreb as an Element of Urban Iconography
, 2015Contemporary religious architecture in this text is analyzed from the perspective of urban iconography in the specific moment of recent history when Zagreb underwent a complex process of redefining its broader political, social and cultural identity. The
I. Podnar
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The Religious Connotation and Aesthetic Studying of the Color in Tibetan Architecture
, 2020Amid our national culture with a long history, Tibet enjoys distinctive cultural beliefs and a sense of national aesthetics. With the characteristic of unique geological position, namely plateau, natural environment and weather influence give birth to
Yue Shang
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Architecture, The Expression of Religious Life
Blackfriars, 1932Terribilis est locus iste’ are the opening words of the Mass for the Dedication of a Church and the exceeding power of that phrase is perhaps never more completely realized than when one enters for the first time one of the famous old Churches of Western Christendom.
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A Variety of Religious Architecture in Poland
Studies in Church History. Subsidia, 1990Before I attempt a brief survey of the numerous and varied examples of religious architecture in Poland let me mention a few well-known facts. Poland, having grown out of a tribal community, and having early developed a national character, after the Union with Lithuania (first a personal union in 1386 and then a State union in 1569) began expanding ...
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