Farshid Moussavi's VR experience transports visitors into masterpieces
of ecclesiastical architecture, which they can adapt and transform themselves, while creative technology and content studio Happy Finish have worked with Yinka Shonibare to develop a three - dimensional rendering of a neo-classical painting, featuring a cast of Venus dressed in Shonibare's trademark batik fabric.
St. Thomas Aquinas recapitulates, in new methods and materials, a basic form
of ecclesiastical architecture dating to Roman times.
Not exact matches
Dropping the mic would necessitate cultivating the art
of classical oratory as well as constructing sanctuaries designed to carry the human voice, just as the use
of the microphone (I would suggest) has relegated homiletics to an afterthought for many seminarians and encouraged uninspired
ecclesiastical architecture.
In his discussion
of Catholic art in France, in L'Art Sacré, Père Régamey well documents the resistances to the significant new initiatives in
ecclesiastical architecture and art, not only among the masses
of believers but among Catholic intellectuals.
If beauty — not a particular beauty, but any beautiful thing — is a metaphor
of the sacred, then there is no such thing as a uniquely «religious» or
ecclesiastical idiom in
architecture or in the other arts.
Despite its minor flaws, St. Thomas Aquinas is an inspiring and transcendent design — one that may encourage
ecclesiastical architects to save spolia from the wrecking ball and bring the best
of historical
architecture to bear on more such numinous houses
of worship.
Here, he uses
architecture and environment to frame his subjects, recalling Yasujirō Ozu, from whom Schrader has often borrowed, and he taps into the stoical,
ecclesiastical guilt
of Ingmar Bergman.
From the chambers at Knossos to the villas and municipal structures
of Rome, from medieval and Renaissance
ecclesiastical architecture to Baroque courts and palaces the mural was a primary vehicle for pictorial space, the wall the substrate
of choice for public - scale allegorical figuration both secular and sacred.