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  • Temples of Deccan India: Hindu and Jain, 7th to 13th Centuries by Michell, George
    George Michell

    Temples of Deccan India: Hindu and Jain, 7th to 13th Centuries

    A visual exploration of the Deccan Indian architectural history. Contains maps guiding would-be travellers to these temple sites.Author: George MichellISBN-10: 1788841387ISBN-13: 9781788841382Publisher: Acc Art BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2021Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 6.56lbsSize: 13.23h x 10.08w x 1.65d
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  • Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Koudounaris, Paul
    Paul Koudounaris

    Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us

    A macabre, spectacular, and thought-provoking survey of death in life, this book collects the many ways human remains are used in decorative, commemorative, and devotional contexts around the world today.This compact edition of Memento Mori takes the reader on a ghoulish but beautiful tour...
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  • Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic by Ball, Philip
    Philip Ball

    Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

    "A lively, open-ended study of the building of Chartres Cathedral. . . . Ball puts the fun back in medieval scholasticism." --Los Angeles TimesChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western...
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  • Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia by Keser Kayaalp, Elif
    Elif Keser Kayaalp

    Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia

    Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. Keser Kayaalp focuses on settlements, plan types, artistic encounters, the remarkable continuity of the classical tradition in the architectural decoration, the heterogeneity of the...
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  • Early Churches of Mexico: An Architect's View by Spears, Beverley
    Beverley Spears

    Early Churches of Mexico: An Architect's View

    Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120...
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  • The Minbar of Saladin: Reconstructing a Jewel of Islamic Art by Singer, Lynette
    Lynette Singer

    The Minbar of Saladin: Reconstructing a Jewel of Islamic Art

    The minbar of Saladin, an intricately designed wooden pulpit, was one of the masterpieces of Islamic art. Made in the 12th century, on Saladins conquest of Jerusalem, it was placed in the al-Aqsa Mosque, where it remained for almost 800 years. Then, in 1969,...
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  • The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House by O'Meara, Simon
    Simon O'Meara

    The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House

    The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaʿba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and...
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  • Essence of Japan: A Coloring Journey by Will, Joyce Yoshihara
    Joyce Yoshihara Will

    Essence of Japan: A Coloring Journey

    The "Essence of Japan" contains 30 beautiful illustrations that give you a taste of Japan's beauty and elegance. Travel through different prefectures such as Tokyo, Matsumoto, and Takayama's countryside.This book covers a wide range of images of Japan. Experience culture, traditions, and beauty through...
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  • The White Church of Blandford by Aieta, Nicholas J.
    Nicholas J. Aieta

    The White Church of Blandford

    In 1822, the White Church, designed by Isaac Damon, was constructed to house the Congregationalist worshippers in Blandford. Blandford, Massachusetts, was initially referred to as Glasgow Lands due to the European colonists of Scots descent who arrived in 1735. These Scots founded a Presbyterian...
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  • 50 Russian Orthodox Churches: A Photo Travel Experience by Vlasov, Andrey
    Andrey Vlasov

    50 Russian Orthodox Churches: A Photo Travel Experience

    Since the Christianization of Rus' in 988, the church has been playing a significant role in the public, cultural and everyday life of Russian people. The church became a sanctuary of the lifestyle of our ancestors. Visiting the church, they would not only pray...
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  • Studies in Persian Architecture by O'Kane, Bernard
    Bernard O'Kane

    Studies in Persian Architecture

    This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 25 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Persian architecture in its widest sense. His analyses range from historiography and tilework to the development of...
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  • The Guide to Norfolk Churches: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition by Mortlock, D. P.
    Charles Roberts

    The Guide to Norfolk Churches: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition

    The profusion of medieval churches in Norfolk provides not only examples of beautiful church architecture, but also records life in their communities and offers an insight into the history of medieval England. The third revised and enlarged edition of The Guide to Norfolk Churches...
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  • Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space by Bermudez, Julio
    Julio Bermudez

    Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space

    How should we construct sacred spaces, the places where we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. By incorporating perspectives from within and without architecture, the book offers a wide,...
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  • Borobudur: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education by Frederic, Louis
    Louis Frederic

    Borobudur: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education

    Author: Louis Frederic, Jean Louis NouISBN-10: 0789201348ISBN-13: 9780789201348Publisher: Abbeville PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/23/1996Pages: 347Format: HardcoverWeight: 7.23lbsSize: 13.10h x 11.88w x 1.61dReview Citation(s): New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 56
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  • The Chapels of Notre Dame by Cunningham, Lawrence S.
    Lawrence S. Cunningham

    The Chapels of Notre Dame

    The Chapels of Notre Dame celebrates the university's unique identity as a Catholic academic community where faith is treasured and diverse traditions shared and respected. This stunning large-format collection of over two hundred full-color photographs brings to life the sixty chapels located throughout Notre...
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  • The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present by Marder, Tod A.
    Tod A. Marder

    The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present

    The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately 125 AD on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and...
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  • Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages by Donkin, Lucy
    Lucy Donkin

    Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages

    Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages illuminates how the floor surface shaped the ways in which people in medieval western Europe and beyond experienced sacred spaces.The ground beneath our feet plays a crucial, yet often overlooked, role in our relationship with the...
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  • The Symbolism of the Christian Temple by Hani, Jean
    Jean Hani

    The Symbolism of the Christian Temple

    That sacred art scarcely exists today is all too clear. We can perhaps speak of a "religious," but certainly not a sacred art. True sacred art is not sentimental or psychological, but ontological and cosmological in nature. Sacred art cannot be the result of...
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  • Monsoon Mosques: Arrival of Islam and the Development of a Mosque Vernacular by Fels, Patricia Tusa
    Patricia Tusa Fels

    Monsoon Mosques: Arrival of Islam and the Development of a Mosque Vernacular

    - Monsoon Mosques presents a finely curated selection of beautiful mosques from South and Southeast Asia - One of the first such books, it traces the spread of Islam through the Indian Ocean littoral and the ways in which local communities responded by building...
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  • The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London by Hollis, Leo
    Leo Hollis

    The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London

    'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for...
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  • American Unitarian Churches: Architecture of a Democratic Religion by Borys, Ann Marie
    Ann Marie Borys

    American Unitarian Churches: Architecture of a Democratic Religion

    The Unitarian religious tradition was a product of the same eighteenth-century democratic ideals that fueled the American Revolution and informed the founding of the United States. Its liberal humanistic principles influenced institutions such as Harvard University and philosophical movements like Transcendentalism. Yet, its role...
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  • Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches by Champion, Matthew
    Matthew Champion

    Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches

    For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms,...
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  • Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000 by Naquin, Susan
    Susan Naquin

    Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000

    At the intersection of art and religious history, this work suggests a fresh method for studying Chinese gods and sacred places. Susan Naquin tells the full story of the transformations of the Lady of Mount Tai, North China's most important female deity, and her...
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  • The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions Into the Spirit of Place by Price, Travis
    Travis Price

    The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions Into the Spirit of Place

    The Mythic Modern offers an significant antidote to the perception of the American abroad, chronicling a remarkable fifteen years of design-build expeditions in extraordinary locales all over the globe by an international team of architecture students focused on exploring, not exploiting, the local cultures,...
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  • Gothic Cathedrals: A Guide to the History, Places, Art, and Symbolism by Ralls Phd, Karen
    Karen Ralls Phd

    Gothic Cathedrals: A Guide to the History, Places, Art, and Symbolism

    Cross the threshold into the world of the High Middle Ages and explore the illuminating wisdom, beauty and art of the Gothic cathedrals, stunning wonders of the medieval era for all to see today. From bejewelled stained glass windows to a pilgrimage on the...
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  • Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple by Dorje, Gyurme
    Gyurme Dorje

    Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple

    Lying at the center of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in the Great Temple of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is the heart of spiritual and economic life in Tibet. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is the atmospheric focal point of Lhasa, from which...
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  • Historic Tampa Churches by Cinchett, John V.
    John V. Cinchett

    Historic Tampa Churches

    Like treasured family heirlooms, the historic churches and temples of Tampa are lovingly cared for by their devoted congregations. With more than 200 vintage images, Historic Tampa Churches shares stories of tragedy and triumph, from St. Peter Claver Church, whose congregation watched the first...
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  • Spirals In Nature And Art: A Study Of Spiral Formations Based On The Manuscripts Of Leonardo Da Vinci (1903) by Cook, Theodore Andrea
    Theodore Andrea Cook

    Spirals In Nature And Art: A Study Of Spiral Formations Based On The Manuscripts Of Leonardo Da Vinci (1903)

    Spirals In Nature And Art: A Study Of Spiral Formations Based On The Manuscripts Of Leonardo Da Vinci (1903) is a book written by Theodore Andrea Cook. The book explores the concept of spiral formations in nature and art, drawing inspiration from the manuscripts...
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  • The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, Ca.1200-1400 by Jung, Jacqueline E.
    Jacqueline E. Jung

    The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, Ca.1200-1400

    At the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur, and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for crucifixes and reliquaries, and...
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  • Studies in Arab Architecture by O'Kane, Bernard
    Bernard O'Kane

    Studies in Arab Architecture

    This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to...
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  • Korean Architecture: Breathing with Nature by Jackson, Ben
    Ben Jackson

    Korean Architecture: Breathing with Nature

    This book offers an introduction to Korea's abundant and unique architectural past and present. It explains some of the ideologies and perspectives that form the foundation of Korean architectural tradition and outlines the history of Korean architecture. It offers a brief introduction to the...
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  • Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial by Bush, Olga
    Olga Bush

    Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial

    The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra - the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city - were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the invention of fractal geometry. Their design principles have been obscured, however, by the loss of...
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  • Sri Harmandar Sahib: Architecture - Engineering - Aesthetics (Golden Temple, Amritsar) by Bhatti, Ss
    Ss Bhatti

    Sri Harmandar Sahib: Architecture - Engineering - Aesthetics (Golden Temple, Amritsar)

    Sri Harmandar Sahib: Architecture - Engineering - Aesthetics (Golden Temple, Amritsar) is based on the author's doctoral research for which he was conferred his third PhD by the Panjab University in 2008. This holy shrine is the only example of Religious Architecture in the...
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  • A Time to Build Anew: How to Find the True, Good, and Beautiful in America by Hartch, Todd
    Todd Hartch

    A Time to Build Anew: How to Find the True, Good, and Beautiful in America

    America is in crisis. This book is a response to that crisis. But it is not about politics as usually understood. It is not a diagnosis of cultural malaise. It is not a theoretical proposal or plan. This is a book of examples, of...
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  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry
    Henry Adams

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

    Using architecture, sculpture, culture and history, Adams humanizes the medieval period and provides valuable insight on religious philosophy. Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes provides a background and description of the construction of two French landmarks built in the 11th century. The Mont-Saint Michel cathedral was...
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  • Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches by Weigel, George
    George Weigel

    Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches

    A preeminent scholar of Catholicism transports readers to Rome for the traditional station churches pilgrimage, offering a vivid and informative guide to the Eternal City and the Lenten season. The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome's most striking churches is a sacred tradition...
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  • Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place by Rae, Murray A.
    Murray A. Rae

    Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place

    The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety. In Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place, author Murray Rae turns to the spatial arts, especially architecture, to investigate how...
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  • Divine Custody: A History of Singapore's Oldest Teochew Temple by Shua, Yeo Kang
    Yeo Kang Shua

    Divine Custody: A History of Singapore's Oldest Teochew Temple

    An architectural and historical study of Singapore's oldest Teochew Temple. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Teochew-speaking gambier and pepper farmers settled in Singapore. Surrounded by the skyscrapers of Singapore's central business district, Wak Hai Cheng Bio temple traces its history back to...
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  • Abandoned Iowa: Schools and Churches by Renaud, Nicole
    Nicole Renaud

    Abandoned Iowa: Schools and Churches

    Have you ever wondered why there are so many abandoned schools and churches? The consolidation of districts, a lack of members, a declining community, a desire for new structures--the list of reasons is endless. The intrigue of finding abandoned places is strong, but schools...
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  • Tradition and Transformation: A Comprehensive Exploration of Three Millenia of Jewish Art and Architecture by Soltes, Ori Z.
    Ori Z. Soltes

    Tradition and Transformation: A Comprehensive Exploration of Three Millenia of Jewish Art and Architecture

    This highly ambitious volume addresses the idea of "Jewish art and architecture" by posing and responding to a series of questions. First is the unresolved conceptual definition of "Jewish," not just as applied to art, but to literature, music, dance, or thought as well....
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  • The Interior of the Medieval Village Church by Kroesen, Jea
    Jea Kroesen

    The Interior of the Medieval Village Church

    The thousands of medieval village churches that lie scattered across Europe provide us with unique insights into society and religion during the Middle Ages. Although many original furnishings fell victim to iconoclasm, war, neglect or refurbishment, some church interiors have remained surprisingly intact. Since...
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  • White Church of Blandford by Aieta, Nicholas J.
    Nicholas J. Aieta

    White Church of Blandford

    Blandford, Massachusetts, was initially referred to as Glasgow Lands due to the European colonists of Scots descent who arrived in 1735. These Scots founded a Presbyterian church; indeed, the reason for their remove from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, was that Hopkinton sought to adopt a Congregational...
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  • The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral by Scott, Robert A.
    Robert A. Scott

    The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral

    The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era...
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  • Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas by Christensen, Pixie
    Pixie Christensen

    Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas

    In Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas, Carl J. Christensen Jr. and Pixie Christensen present sixty-five captivating and historically significant structures in exquisite watercolor illustrations accompanied by brief summaries and convenient, handcrafted maps. Ranging from stately edifices of brick and stone...
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  • Sigurd Lewerentz--Pure Aesthetics: St Mark's Church, 1956-1963 by Björkquist, Karin
    Karin Bjkquist

    Sigurd Lewerentz--Pure Aesthetics: St Mark's Church, 1956-1963

    An atmospheric masterpiece of modern religious architecture: Sigurd Lewerentz's Markuskyrkan (St Mark's Church) in Stockholm's Bj rkhagen district. St Mark's Church in Bj rkhagen, one of Stockholm's southern districts, is one of Sigurd Lewerentz's (1885-1975) key designs. But unlike Lewerentz's other famous church, St...
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  • Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism by Aksamija, Azra
    Azra Aksamija

    Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism

    Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism This book investigates how architecture can shape an open-minded and inclusive society, highlighting three internationally renowned projects: the White Mosque in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1980); the Islamic Cemetery Altach in Altach, Austria (2012); and the Superkilen public park in Copenhagen,...
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  • The Mosques of Egypt by O'Kane, Bernard
    Bernard O'Kane

    The Mosques of Egypt

    Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 639. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he...
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  • Wiltshire Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses: a Guide and Gazetteer by Holden, James
    James Holden

    Wiltshire Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses: a Guide and Gazetteer

    Wiltshire is particularly lucky in the variety and quality of its chapels, which range from tiny country meeting houses of traditional gable-ended design to large town churches with Classical facades and space for 1000 or more worshippers in their galleried interiors. This book documents...
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  • The Symbolism of the Christian Temple by Hani, Jean
    Jean Hani

    The Symbolism of the Christian Temple

    That sacred art scarcely exists today is all too clear. We can perhaps speak of a "religious," but certainly not a sacred art. True sacred art is not sentimental or psychological, but ontological and cosmological in nature. Sacred art cannot be the result of...
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  • Saving the Light at Chartres: How the Great Cathedral and Its Stained-Glass Treasures Were Rescued During World War II by Pollak, Victor A.
    Victor A. Pollak

    Saving the Light at Chartres: How the Great Cathedral and Its Stained-Glass Treasures Were Rescued During World War II

    How Chartres Cathedral and its priceless stained glass survived World War II's widespread destruction of cultural monuments is one of the great stories of recent history. Victor Pollak tells the story of how the cathedral's treasures were spared and how an American soldier, Col....
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