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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dominican Order"”.
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[Urban] Monastery
… parameter is the program: A monastery for the Dominican order within an urban context of Washington DC. The architecture has two primary responsibilities, one is to preserve the sanctity of a restricted way of living and the other to engage with its profane surrounding. The two most important …
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Contradiction in the making of a sacred monolith
… of Sainte Marie de La Tourette, representing the Dominican Order in the small town of Croix en Touraine in the Loire Valley of France. The Project is approached through a continuous dialogue between the architecture of the Convent of Sainte Marie de La Tourette and this new convent. This process …
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Renaissance Thomism at the University of Padua, 1465-1583
… Through lectures as well as published works, the Dominican professors who taught theology and metaphysics in via S. Thomae made important contributions to the spread of the thought of Thomas Aquinas in Italy beyond the Dominican order. But the Thomists who taught at the University of Padua in the …
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Architectural fusion and indigenous ideology in early colonial Mexico: a case study of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, 1535-1580, demonstrating cultural transmission and transformation through negotiation and consent in planning a new urban environment
… first time in English. A mystic tradition in the Dominican Order focused on Passion iconography and emphasizing mental prayer was transmitted into the New World, shaping the nature of the evangelization there. Dominican efforts to implant the practice of distinctly Christian forms of meditation …
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Art and Evangelization at the Sixteenth-Century Convento of Santiago Apóstol at Cuilapan, Mexico
<p>Dominican friars founded numerous churches and monasteries to evangelize the indigenous populations of Mexico. Although they presumably conceived the architectural plans and decorative schemes of these establishments, the resultant structures were constructed and adorned primarily by native …
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
“Performing Piety” examines the interdependent relationship between medieval sermons and plays in late-medieval East Anglia, arguing that the mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common …