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The Belmont Memorial Chapel is a small church that is located on the grounds of Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. While that goes slightly outside our usually rather tight sphere of focus here at LAJ, I believe our readers will be very interested in this particular project as it not only features a dramatic restoration, but also a period we seldom touch upon -- the Aesth...
Silver, like gold, does not have a singular expression. Rather, silver comes in a range of different shades. Some silvers are very cool and greyish in their hue while others have other underlying secondary colours such as pink/red. However one of those beautiful shades, in my estimation, is a kind of silver known as white silver. White silver is very light and airy in its ...
Sacristies are generally places you do not want to miss when you're touring an older European church. Generally speaking, while you may not get a look at the sacred vestments, these are still places of great interest, being more akin to chapels than mere dressing rooms, intended to service the prayerful preparations of the clergy.The sagrestia vecchia, or old sacristy,...
The truly stupendous Amiens Cathedral at once takes hold of the soul -- it is one of the finest churches raised to the Glory of God. It was constructed from 1220-1270, a short period for a Gothic cathedral, giving it an unusual unity of style. Like other Gothic churches of its day, the architects were always trying to maximize the internal dimensions, reaching up to the heavens,...
Coming out of fourth century Roman workshops were a series of decorative glasswork referred to as the golden or gilded glasses. These glassworks come from the paleochristian period and contain various depictions of Christian imagery, particularly the depiction of popular Roman saints such as Ss. Peter and Paul, St. Agnes and St. Lawrence as well as other biblical scenes. These d...
