Lavra in Kiev (Ukraine) (by Goshovsky)
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The bronze doors of Bishop Bernward from the Abbey Church of St. Michael’s in Hildesheim, Germany. Doors cast c. 1015. Source. Click through the photo for an enlarged image. Click here to view a diagram explaining the thematic and typological comparisons in the doors’ imagery.
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Lalibela Church, Ethiopia
The town of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is renowned for 12 Christian churches that were hewed out of solid stone some 800 years ago. The most stunning is Bieta Giyorgis, shown here, a massive monolith 40 feet (12 meters) tall, intricately carved and shaped like a cross.
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Archangel Michael Defeating Evil by Lorenzo Mattielli, at the Michaelerkirche close to the Hofburg imperial palace in Vienna Austria, on Michaelerplatz.
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“This intricately crafted bronze censer was found in the parish church of Buchholz in 1846. It is not known for which church it was originally made, but it must have been a grand one. It was probably made in Trier around 1100. The censer stands 8.5 inches (21.5cm) high and represents the Heavenly Jerusalem. It is shaped like a building with a cross-shaped plan, four apses, and 100 windows. On the four sides of the lower part are four busts: Moses with his staff, Aaron with a censer, and the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. Atop the gables stand four full-length figures: Abel with a lamb; Melchizedek with bread and chalice (seen here), Abraham about to sacrifice his son, and Isaac blessing Jacob instead fo Esau. All eight figures represent Old Testament prophets and events that prefigure the Eucharist. At the top is Solomon on his throne, with a fleur-de-lis crown, sceptre and imperial orb. Fourteen seated lions surround the base of the throne. Numerous Latin inscriptions explain the story of salvation, and one memorializes the bronze caster: “You who reads this, whoever you are, pray that Gozbertus may live!” The chain holder (behind on the right) has four medallions of the apostles Peter, Paul, James and John, with dragons between them. In the center is Christ on his throne.”
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Studies for the Transfiguration
Raphael
Large image: HERE
Detail
Transfiguration, from 1520, was unfinished at his death.
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Portable Altar
German, 1190–1200
This altar contains the relics of forty saints whose names are inscribed on the reverse. The relics within (which include hair identified by its label as that of St. John the Evangelist and semiprecious stones associated with St. Christopher) are wrapped in textiles and labeled.
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Monument to Canova in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, designed by Canova as a mausoleum for the painter Titian, Venice Italy.
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Architect Coop Himmelb(l)au recently completed the Martin Luther Church Hainburg in Austria.
