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Remembering the California Missions (Hardcover): Janice Stevens Remembering the California Missions (Hardcover)
Janice Stevens
R811 R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Save R67 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Evoking the rich beauty of California's mission heritage in lush watercolors and insightful prose, this beautifully illustrated exploration follows the gorgeous path of El Camino Real, stretching from the San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys, through the rugged coastlines of Monterey and San Francisco, and inland to Sonoma. Delving into the enduring architectural, artistic, and cultural history of the Golden State, this study reveals founding hero Father Junipero Serra's pioneering labours, the conquest of the land's agricultural wealth, and California's painful transfers from the Indians to Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Remembering the labors of the early Spanish priests and Native Americans, this treasury of captivating artistry celebrates and preserves the masterworks of the state's founding era.

Sigurd Lewerentz - Pure Aesthetics - St Mark's Church, Stockholm (Hardcover): Karin Bjoerkquist, Sebastien Corbari Sigurd Lewerentz - Pure Aesthetics - St Mark's Church, Stockholm (Hardcover)
Karin Bjoerkquist, Sebastien Corbari
R1,418 Discovery Miles 14 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

St Mark's Church in Bjoerkhagen, one of Stockholm's southern districts, is one of Sigurd Lewerentz's (1885-1975) key designs. But unlike Lewerentz's other famous church, St Peter's in Klippan, no book has been published to date that constitutes a fitting tribute to this masterpiece of brick brutalism. This opulent new building monograph now fills this gap. Some 300 new colour photographs and especially drawn explanatory plans, alongside essays by distinguished authorities on Lewerentz's architecture, turn this book into a visual feast. It demonstrates the exquisitely atmospheric St Mark's Church both as a standalone object and in the context of its surrounding urban landscape. Moreover, it picks out many details, such as the floor coverings, furnishings, lamps, banisters, the altar, and other liturgical features. The essays explore aspects of materiality and topics such as the church's special acoustics and atmosphere in an attempt to reveal the secret of Sigurd Lewerentz's church designs.

Churches of Lancashire (Paperback): David Paul Churches of Lancashire (Paperback)
David Paul
R476 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R47 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Lancashire is a county of contrasts, with heavily industrialised and urbanised areas, remote mountain and moorland and an extensive coastline. These contrasts are reflected in its churches, from buildings that have stood from the Middle Ages in historic towns and villages including the county town of Lancaster, Nonconformist chapels and Georgian structures, to the churches built during the industrial and Victorian age where the wealth and population of Lancashire grew massively and people flocked to popular new leisure destinations such as Blackpool, into the modern era of the last century. In Churches of Lancashire, author David Paul explores a cross-section of historical churches throughout the county, both the well known and those waiting to be discovered by a wider audience. This fascinating picture of an important part of the history of Lancashire over the centuries will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England.

White Elephants on Campus - The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960 (Hardcover): Margaret Grubiak White Elephants on Campus - The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960 (Hardcover)
Margaret Grubiak
R2,204 Discovery Miles 22 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC (Hardcover): Charlotte R. Potts Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC (Hardcover)
Charlotte R. Potts
R4,740 Discovery Miles 47 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy from the Iron Age to the Archaic Period. By analysing the archaeological evidence for the form of early religious buildings and their role in ancient communities, it reconstructs a detailed history of early Latial and Etruscan religious architecture that brings together the buildings and the people who used them. The first part of the study examines the processes by which religious buildings changed from huts and shrines to monumental temples, and explores apparent differences between these processes in Latium and Etruria. The second part analyses the broader architectural, religious, and topographical contexts of the first Etrusco-Italic temples alongside possible rationales for their introduction. The result is a new and extensive account of when, where, and why monumental cult buildings became features of early central Italic society and set precedents for the great temples of republican Rome.

Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy - History, Theory, and Aesthetics (Paperback): Esra Akin-Kivanc Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy - History, Theory, and Aesthetics (Paperback)
Esra Akin-Kivanc
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Muthanna, also known as mirror writing, is a compelling style of Islamic calligraphy composed of a source text and its mirror image placed symmetrically on a horizontal or vertical axis. This style elaborates on various scripts such as Kufic, naskh, and muhaqqaq through compositional arrangements, including doubling, superimposing, and stacking. Muthanna is found in diverse media, ranging from architecture, textiles, and tiles to paper, metalwork, and woodwork. Yet despite its centuries-old history and popularity in countries from Iran to Spain, scholarship on the form has remained limited and flawed. Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy provides a comprehensive study of the text and its forms, beginning with an explanation of the visual principles and techniques used in its creation. Author Esra Akin-Kivanc explores muthanna's relationship to similar forms of writing in Judaic and Christian contexts, as well as the specifically Islamic contexts within which symmetrically mirrored compositions reached full fruition, were assigned new meanings, and transformed into more complex visual forms. Throughout, Akin-Kivanc imaginatively plays on the implicit relationship between subject and object in muthanna by examining the point of view of the artist, the viewer, and the work of art. In doing so, this study elaborates on the vital links between outward form and inner meaning in Islamic calligraphy.

Santa Maria Antiqua - The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover): Eileen Rubery, Giulia Bordi, John Osborne Santa Maria Antiqua - The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Eileen Rubery, Giulia Bordi, John Osborne
R5,737 Discovery Miles 57 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Designing Sacred Spaces (Hardcover): Sherin Wing Designing Sacred Spaces (Hardcover)
Sherin Wing
R4,515 Discovery Miles 45 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sacred spaces exemplify some of the most exciting and challenging architecture today. Designing Sacred Spaces tells the inside story of seven architecture firms and their approaches to designing churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, monasteries and retreats. Twenty beautifully illustrated case studies located in Asia, Europe, and North America are showcased alongside discussions with the designers into concept and design development, materiality, and spatial analysis. Complementing these are essays on the cultural, historical, and theoretical meaning and importance of sacred spaces. By exploring the way we see religion and how we understand secular and sacred space, Designing Sacred Spaces reveals how we see ourselves and how we see others. A tour-de-force of first-person narratives, research, and illustrations, this book is a vital desk reference.

Death and Burial in the Roman World (Paperback, New Ed): J.M.C. Toynbee Death and Burial in the Roman World (Paperback, New Ed)
J.M.C. Toynbee
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem--Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.

High Gothic - The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens (Paperback): Hans Jantzen High Gothic - The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens (Paperback)
Hans Jantzen; Translated by James Palmes
R1,477 Discovery Miles 14 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This engaging study introduces the reader to one of the greatest achievements of Western art: the climactic phase of Gothic architecture in the first half of the thirteenth century. Through a comparative analysis of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens, the author illuminates the technical, theological, artistic, and social factors that formed the High Gothic synthesis. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he successively characterizes the different parts of the Gothic cathedral and describes the human context of the three great buildings.

Sacred Ground - The Cemeteries of New Orleans (Hardcover): Robert S. Brantley Sacred Ground - The Cemeteries of New Orleans (Hardcover)
Robert S. Brantley; Introduction by Frederick Starr
R1,053 Discovery Miles 10 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans's legendary cemeteries. Robert S. Brantley celebrates the otherworldly landscapes, intricate ironwork, evocative memorials, and stately monuments as vibrant sites of remembrance. New Orleans history is further revealed through biographies of twenty individuals whose grave sites are among those featured, including entrepreneurs, celebrated musicians, a world-class violin maker, an ex-slave turned minister, a ship's captain, and a young soldier felled by Spanish flu while in basic training for World War I. The rich duotone photographs, organized by cemetery, are followed by an index identifying the tombs and their iconography; an introduction by S. Frederick Starr provides background on New Orleans cemetery history, culture, and burial customs. Sacred Ground provides a stunning exploration of the traditions born of New Orleans's unique religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity.

Temlau Peintiedig / Painted Temples 2021 - Murluniau a Chroglenni yn Eglwysi Cymru, 1200-1800 / Wallpaintings and Rood-screens... Temlau Peintiedig / Painted Temples 2021 - Murluniau a Chroglenni yn Eglwysi Cymru, 1200-1800 / Wallpaintings and Rood-screens in Welsh Churches, 1200-1800 (English, Welsh, Hardcover)
Richard Suggett; Contributions by Anthony J Parkinson, Jane Rutherfoord
R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Unlocking the Church - The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space (Paperback): William Whyte Unlocking the Church - The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space (Paperback)
William Whyte
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of church buildings is almost entirely down to the zeal of Victorians such as John Henry Newman, Henry Wilberforce and Augustus Pugin, and their ideas about the role of architecture in our spiritual life and well-being. In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge were embroiled in the aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly changed the ways in which buildings were understood and experienced. No longer mere receptacles for worship, churches became active agents in their own rights, capable of conveying theological ideas and designed to shape people's emotions. These church buildings are now a challenge: their maintenance, repair or repurposing are pressing problems for parishes in age of declining attendance and dwindling funds. By understanding their past, unlocking the secrets of their space, there might be answers in how to deal with the legacy of the Victorians now and into the future.

English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages - History and Representation (Paperback): Nigel Saul English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages - History and Representation (Paperback)
Nigel Saul
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages offers a comprehensive survey of English church monuments from the pre-Conquest period to the early sixteenth century. Ground-breaking in its treatment of the subject in an historical context, it explores medieval monuments both in terms of their social meaning and the role that they played in the religious strategies of the commemorated.
Attention is given to the production of monuments, the pattern of their geographical distribution, the evolution of monument types, and the role of design in communicating the monument's message. A major theme is the self-representation of the commemorated as reflected in the main classes of effigy-those of the clergy, the knights and esquires, and the lesser landowner or burgess class, while the effigial monuments of women are examined from the perspective of the construction of gender.
While seeking to use monuments as windows onto the experiences and lives of the commemorated, it also exploits documentary sources to show what they can tell us about the influences that helped shape the monuments. An innovative chapter looks at the construction of identity in inscriptions, showing how the liturgical role of the monument limited the opportunities for expressions of self. Nigel Saul seeks to place monuments at the very centre of medieval studies, highlighting their importance not only for the history of sculpture and design, but also for social and religious history more generally.

Legends in Limestone - Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun (Hardcover, 2nd Ed.): Linda Seidel Legends in Limestone - Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun (Hardcover, 2nd Ed.)
Linda Seidel
R1,583 Discovery Miles 15 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Whereas twelfth-century pilgrims flocked to the church of St-Lazare in Autun to visit the relics of its patron saint, present-day pilgrims journey there to admire its superb sculpture, said to have been created by the artist Gislebertus whose name is inscribed above one of the church doors. These two cults, of sculptor and of saint, form points of departure and arrival for Linda Seidel's study.
"Legends in Limestone" reveals how "Gislebertus, sculptor" was discovered and subsequently sanctified over the course of the last century. Seidel makes a compelling case for the identification of the name with an ancestor of the local ducal family, invoked for his role in the acquisition of the precious relics. With the aid of evidence drawn from the richly carved decoration of the building, she demonstrates how medieval visitors would have read a different holy narrative in the church fabric, one that constructed before their eyes an account of their patron saint's life.
"Legends in Limestone, " an absorbing study of one of France's most revered medieval monuments, provides fresh insights into modern and medieval interpretive practices.

The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture - A Reader (Paperback): Renata  Hejduk, Jim Williamson The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture - A Reader (Paperback)
Renata Hejduk, Jim Williamson
R1,642 Discovery Miles 16 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture.

The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between religion and architecture in the twentieth century, as well as giving a brief look at the pre-history of the modern movement and its relationship to religion and architecture. These are grounded by and help to explicate the reprinted essays that are culled from the last one hundred years.

This is an important introduction to the religious imagination in architectural thought of the last one hundred years, and to the interdisciplinary discourse that examines how different disciplines express abstract concepts such as faith, spirit, God and knowledge. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practising, delving deeper into the meaning of architectural practice.

China'S Early Mosques (Paperback): Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt China'S Early Mosques (Paperback)
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What happens when a monotheistic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule of Song and Ming, and the non-Chinese rule of the Mongols and Manchus, each with a different political and religious agenda. The author shows that mosques, and ultimately Islam, have survived in China because the Chinese architectural system, though often unchanging, is adaptable: it can accommodate the religious requirements of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Islam.

Bernini (Paperback): Giovanni Careri Bernini (Paperback)
Giovanni Careri
R1,069 Discovery Miles 10 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This text explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how Bernini achieved his effects. Careri examines the ways in which the artist integrated the disparate forms of architecture, painting and sculpture into a coherant space for devotion, and then shows how this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners. In the Fonseca Chapel, the Albertoni Chapel and the church of Saint Andrea al Quirinale, all in Rome, Careri identifies three types of ensemble and links each to a particular spiritual journey. Using contemporary theories in anthropology, film and reception aesthetics, he shows how Bernini's formal mechanisms established an emotional dynamic between the beholder and a specific arrangement of forms.

Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean - Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present (Hardcover): Stéphane Pradines, Farouk Topan Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean - Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present (Hardcover)
Stéphane Pradines, Farouk Topan
R3,329 Discovery Miles 33 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the role of Muslim communities in the emergence of connections and mobilities across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée perspective. Spanning the 7th century through the medieval period until the present day, this book aims to move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions to highlight different aspects of interconnectivity in relation to Islam. Analysing textual and material evidence, contributors examine identities and diasporas, manuscripts and literature, as well as vernacular and religious architecture. It aims to explore networks and circulations of peoples, ideas and ideologies, as well as art, culture, religion and heritage. It focuses on global interactions as well as local agencies in context.

The Suburban Church - Modernism and Community in Postwar America (Paperback): Gretchen Buggeln The Suburban Church - Modernism and Community in Postwar America (Paperback)
Gretchen Buggeln
R1,050 R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Save R114 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After World War II, America's religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvigorate Protestant worship and community. The result is a fascinating new perspective on postwar architecture, religion, and society. Drawing on the architectural record, church archives, and oral histories, The Suburban Church focuses on collaborations between architects Edward D. Dart, Edward A. Soevik, Charles E. Stade, and seventy-five congregations. By telling the stories behind their modernist churches, the book describes how the buildings both reflected and shaped developments in postwar religion-its ecumenism, optimism, and liturgical innovation, as well as its fears about staying relevant during a time of vast cultural, social, and demographic change. While many scholars have characterized these congregations as "country club" churches, The Suburban Church argues that most were earnest, well-intentioned religious communities caught between the desire to serve God and the demands of a suburban milieu in which serving middle-class families required most of their material and spiritual resources.

Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland - An Architectural Guide (Paperback, Second Edition): Sharman Kadish Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland - An Architectural Guide (Paperback, Second Edition)
Sharman Kadish
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Britain's tiny Jewish community (about 263,000 people) is the oldest non-Christian minority in the country. In 1656 Jews returned to England after an absence of nearly 400 years and the Jewish community has enjoyed a history of continuous settlement in England since 1656, a record unmatched anywhere else in Europe. Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland celebrates in full colour the undiscovered heritage of Anglo-Jewry. First published in 2006, it remains the only comprehensive guide to historic synagogues and sites in the British Isles, based on an authoritative survey carried out with the support of English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The guide is simple to use, covering more than 300 sites, organised on a region-by-region basis. Each section highlights major Jewish landmarks, ranging from Britain's oldest synagogue, Bevis Marks Synagogue in the City of London, through the Georgian gems of the West Country to the splendid High Victorian "cathedral synagogues" of Birmingham, Brighton, Liverpool and Glasgow. Relics of Anglo-Jewry's medieval past are explored in York, Lincoln and Norwich, and venerable burial grounds with Hebrew inscriptions are found in the unlikeliest of places. Curious oddities are not to be missed, including a 19th-century private penthouse synagogue in Brighton and an Egyptian-style Mikveh [ritual bath] in Canterbury. The new edition has been completely revised and features many new images including, for the first time, of sites in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The easy-to-follow heritage trails around former Jewish quarters in the major cities have been updated and full postcodes are now given for SatNav users.

Reframing the Alhambra - Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial (Paperback): Olga Bush Reframing the Alhambra - Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial (Paperback)
Olga Bush
R1,155 R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Save R104 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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 all archival material. This book resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through comparative study of Islamic court ceremonials. This reframing enables the reconstruction of the underlying, integrated aesthetic, focusing on the harmonious interrelationship between diverse artistic media --architecture, poetry and textiles -- in the experience of the beholder, resulting in a new understanding of the Alhambra.

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [4] (Hardcover): C.W. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [4] (Hardcover)
C.W. Foster
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Building Durham Cathedral (Paperback): Brian K. Roberts Building Durham Cathedral (Paperback)
Brian K. Roberts
R551 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R53 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Durham Cathedral was completed nearly 900 years ago, after 40 years of construction. Inevitably it has suffered from the effects of time: physical erosion, from the weather and increasing pollution on stone that was never of the best quality, and cultural erosion, the impact of secular and religious changes - not least the depredations of clerics, improvers, and administrators. Nevertheless, it remains: the stones speak and provide the story of themselves. Building Durham Cathedral explores this magnificent structure by questioning its architectural plans and stonework. As there have been minimal additions we catch sight of it as the Norman builders intended. Remarkably, a few early documents and the stonework itself allow us to glimpse its beginnings and some of the personalities involved. Questions remain, but there may even be a clue to the identity of its original master mason.

Heritage Churches - Of the First Nations People in British Columbia (Paperback): Kenneth Perry Heritage Churches - Of the First Nations People in British Columbia (Paperback)
Kenneth Perry
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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