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Ciboria and Tabernacles: A Short History

By Aidan Hart on April 8, 2015
Ciboria and Tabernacles: A Short History

(This article continuation of my last post: Holy Tables with Reliquaries: A Short History ) The Ciborium A ciborium is a form of canopy supported by columns over the holy table (25). It is sometimes also called a baldachin, but strictly speaking this latter term should be limited to cloth canopies. Ciboria came to be common, […]

Posted in Architecture, Church Furniture, Liturgical Objects | Tagged Aidan Hart, altar, Artophoria, Ciboria, ciborium, tabernacle, templon August 24, 2015

Holy Tables with Reliquaries, a Short History

By Aidan Hart on April 3, 2015
Holy Tables with Reliquaries, a Short History

In this overview and the one that will follow I have combined the history of altars (also called holy tables), ciboria and tabernacles because their respective developments are somewhat related. In this first section I will deal with Holy Tables and will focus on ciboria and tabernacles in the second installment.   My interest in […]

Posted in Church Furniture, Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts | Tagged Aidan Hart, altar, Orthodox, Ravenna, reliquary August 24, 2015

Technical Hierarchy

By Jonathan Pageau on October 1, 2013
Technical Hierarchy

This is post 3 of 3 in the series “Hand and Machine” In light of the discussion that has been happening on the OAJ concerning the question of technical means and the production of liturgical arts (starting with fr. Silouan Justiniano’s article, my short post and Andrew Gould’s response), I thought I would attempt something […]

Posted in Architecture, Church Furniture, Iconography, Liturgical Objects, Liturgy, Minor Arts, Theory | Tagged aeropagite, altar, bronze, daniel, exonarthex, gold, hierarchy, Icons, iron, liturgical art, machine, mechanical production, narthex, nave, nebuchanezzar, Orthodoxy, production, silver, temple April 1, 2017

Byzantine Chapel in Myra Found Under Deep Mud

By Jonathan Pageau on January 14, 2013
Byzantine Chapel in Myra Found Under Deep Mud

A recent NY Times article relates the finding of parts of the ancient city of Myra, the home of no one less than St-Nicholas himself.  It seems the town was buried under mud during flooding several centuries ago. Archeologists are excavating the pristinely preserved chapel with its fresco and altar.  The article has a few pictures.  The […]

Posted in News | Tagged altar, archeology, fresco, myra, st-nicholas July 14, 2014

Medieval Art from Catalonia

By Jonathan Pageau on November 27, 2012
Medieval Art from Catalonia

The utmost french speaking resource website for Orthodoxy, www.orthodoxie.com, has a very beautiful Flickr stream of the National Museum of Catalonia.  It is an amazing showcase of Western icons, liturgical objects, frescoes and furniture from the Early Middle Ages. When looking at the images, what strikes me the most is the boldness in color bringing about a […]

Posted in Church Furniture, Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged altar, apse, catalonia, Christ in glory, evangelists, flikr, fresco, hieratic, Icon, iconography, medieval, orthodoxie.com, pantocrator, reliquary, tabernacle, Virgin with child, western July 14, 2014
 

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