Showing posts with label Catholic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic. Show all posts

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Orvieto Cathedral

The building of this Roman Catholic cathedral in northern Italy started in the 13th century. Maitani's Tuscan Gothic facade recalls the cathedrals at both Siena and Florence. Cesare Nebbia designed the original mosaics from 1350-90.


Just like with St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Salviati's craftsmen also restored the mosaics on the upper part of this cathedral's facade sometime before 1883.



The Coronation of the Virgin on the topmost gable.

Sources:
Art Notes. NY Times. February 4, 1883.
Wikipedia
Adonovan0 on Wikimedia Commons
Georges Jansoone on Wikimedia Commons
fortherock on Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Neuer Dom, Linz

The new cathedral also known as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic church built 1862-1924 after designs by Vincenz Statz.



Salviati decorated the apse with 24 mosaic figures.



Sources:
Wikipedia
Saint Leopold-Blatt. Volumes 1-3. 1887-89. 38.
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 122.
Pierre Bona on Wikimedia Commons
Linz Presse
Jan Lefers' flickr Photostream

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Priory Church of St. Dominic

The priory opened in 1867 and its Roman Catholic church was built in 1874-83 by Charles A. Buckler in an Early English style.



Buckler also designed the neo-Gothic High Altar, which is embellished with Salviati mosaics.


St. Thomas, one of the eight mosaic portraits on the High Altar


Sources:
British Listed Buildings
Fr. Lawrence Lew's flickr Photostream

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Catholic Parish of St. Brigid's, Marrickville

St. Brigid's Retreat was built in 1886 and it was later taken over by Irish Passionists. The current Catholic church was built 1918-21 and it is the second largest church in Sydney.





Salviati & Co. made the mosaic altar reredos for the original church based upon a commission from the Very Reverend Father Bertrand Mangan (1873-1933), who left Ireland for Australia in 1915.


The 13th Station of the Cross is one of the fourteen mosaic scenes also by Salviati depicting Christ's Passion.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 139.
"Rev. Father Bertrand Mangan, C.P." The Sydney Morning Herald. January 3, 1933.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

The Annunciation, Chislehurst

Architect James Brooks built this Catholic church 1868-70.


Nathaniel Westlake designed the mosaic tympanum of The Last Judgment that Salviati made in 1890.



Sources:
Bentjeman, John and Richard Surman. Betjeman’s Best British Churches. London: Harper Collins UK, 2011.
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 136.
The Annunciation Chislehurst
Philip Chester's flickr Photostream
Siani D's flickr Photostream

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street

Architect Joseph John Scoles designed this Roman Catholic Church that was built 1844-49 and which is run by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).


Henry Clutton designed the church's outer aisles and several chapels including the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament (also called the Sacred Heart Chapel) in 1860, which may be why his name is associated with Salviati's Venetian mosaics from around the same time that are located above A.W.N. Pugin's high altar.


Presented in 1875, the two mosaic panels depict the Annunciation and the Coronation of the Virgin, respectively.



Sources:
Wikipedia
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.
Wheatley, Henry Benjamin and Peter Cunningham. London: Past and Present. Vol II. London: John Murray, 1891. 31.
Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP's flirck Photostream
Evinson, Denis. Catholic Churches in London. Wiltshire: The Cromwell Press, 1998. 44.
Hibbert, Christopher, et. al. The London Encyclopaedia. 3rd ed. London: Macmillan, 2008. 170.
Brian Harrington Spier's flickr Photostream
Rex Harris' flickr Photostream