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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"reliquaries"”.
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Tracing the Trend from Public Piety to Private Devotion in Western European Reliquaries of the Middle Ages
… design development of Western European medieval reliquaries - containers of sacred remains - as reflective of the trend from public piety to private devotion. Reliquaries in the form of the head, bust, and whole body merit particular emphasis as they elicit greater personal response on the part …
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Matter of Life and Death
… others. My imagery includes fragmented bodies, reliquaries, and forensic evidence. I use traditional and non-traditional sculpture materials and processes that are intended to conceptually inform the viewer further.
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Bittersweet
… we have for them. They become precious reliquaries in our minds because they relate to our positive experiences, lost loved ones and religious beliefs. The objects provide a physical presence that enforces this formed reality. The reliquaries that we strive to preserve and protect may be …
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Geometria et ars memorativa : Studien zur Bedeutung von Kreis und Quadrat als Bestandteile mittelalterlicher Mnemonik und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte an ausgewählten Beispielen
… or liturgical medieval manuscripts, on reliquaries and candlesticks or monumentalized rose-windows. These different medieval forms create an own tradition which does not suddenly end in postmedieval times since the power of imagination is one of the basic elements of memory. Proofs for …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
Since the inception of Renaissance scholarship in the late 1800s, the mendicant orders of friars – above all the Franciscans – have been considered pivotal for the artistic and urban renewal underway in Italy from the 1200s onwards. This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of the …