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...
Learn about the architectural history and components of cathedrals. Explore different church styles and learn the difference between a basilica and...
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...
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 going to pour into the treasure-chest of the Christian-Scientist Papacy by-and-by, let us not dou...