Learn about the architectural history and components of cathedrals. Explore different church styles and learn the difference between a basilica and...
The apse also has a model in the ancient Roman basilica. In the apse sat the magistrates, deliberating, meting out justice, and offering pagan sacrifice on an altar. Likewise, Christ sits in judgment on the altar, His throne, and offers the perfect sacrifice. The depiction of Christ Pantocra...
By Vaclav Nelhybel. String Orchestra, Score and Parts. In the Middle Ages, a triptych was an altar piece with a large central panel and two flanking panels which, as certain times of the church year, could be folded to cover the picture on the central pa
It is a curious fact that we know more of the work of the British Church beyond its borders than at home; and what we know of it is very much to its credit. Somewhere about the year 395, when the inroads of barbarians from the north had become a gra...
workers—gasp again—vacation timeseem as if they want to be funny based solely on the backward values Ferengi place on doing business at the expense of the individual. Butenough already—the joke has been done so many times onDS9, and it was never that great a joke in the first place...
Let the artist get ready with his canvas and his brushes; the new Renaissance is on its way, and there will be money in altar-canvases—a thousand times as much as the Popes and their Church ever spent on the Old Masters; for their riches were as poverty as compared with what is ...
past the transept. This is where the altar is usually located. Many cathedrals have a small dome over the apse. Sometimes, the choir and apse are combined into one large space. The apse is often the most decorated part of the cathedral and is one of the most visually important areas ins...