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@Dieter wrote:
You are more than a little out of date.
Whatever might have happened in the dark reign of Jimmy Tully, the Board members are now nominated by professional bodies such as RIAI, IPI, RTPI IEI etc. Several of the Board are former senior inspectors.. one a Chief Tehnical Officer.
Do the same standards apply to those appointed to the Heritage Council?
The golden antependium of the Abbey of Grosscomburg in Swabia dating from c. 1120 showing Christ surrounded by the twelve Aposltes and the four Evangelists.
The Altar Antependium of Grimbergen, c. 1540 conserved in the Abbey of Grimbergen in Belgium
Interestingly, the scenes depicted here are the New Testament banquet scenes attended by Our Lord: the Marriage feast of Cana; the feast at the house of Simon the Pharisee (famously painted by Veronese); The Last Supper; the supper at Emmaus, and the Supper in the house of Zaccheus
Further details of the antependium may be found here:
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=object2&LANGUAGE=0&OPAC_URL=&20014717=on
The Altar of St. John the Baptist (1366-1377) made by Leonardo de Ser Giovanni and Betto di Geri for the Baptistery in Florence. It contains 400 Kgs. of silver.
Something form the quondam Cork Examiner of 7 February 2007:
07 February 2007
Council has a duty to keep citizens informed
WITH reference to your article on refuse charge rebates (Irish Examiner, January 17), I took the case for refund of fees against Cork City Council under Section 40 (1) of the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980.
The council has a duty to inform not only me but all of its account-holders of a change in the terms of collection of refuse before it receives payment for providing the service.
The city manager is incorrect when he says mine was a special case with “specific circumstancesâ€.
The very same case and circumstances apply to all those who availed of the discount, 15,420 account-holders other than myself.
The judge in the Small Claims Court made it perfectly clear to city council representatives on the day that I was due the refund under the 1980 Act.
I believe all who paid by the date the council set are entitled to a rebate, and Cllr Catherine Clancy’s reason for calling for a rebate was to avoid the Small Claims Court being swamped with claims.
As it is, the city council is supplying half the service of 2005/6 for a higher fee in 2006/7.
Perhaps it believes lack of action by those entitled to a rebate will save it refunding money to which it is not entitled. I would suggest that, for a small filing fee, a refund is obtainable through the Small Claims Court.
John McCarthy
Villa Nova
Douglas Road
CorkOn the subject of painted church interiors here is an interesting link on the subject:
http://www.achome.co.uk/services/interiorrestoration.php
Luzarches!
Thanks for reminding me of the Altar Piece of Nicholas of Verdun at the abbey of Klosterneuburg near Vienna dating from c. 1180.
And here are some of the 51 panels:
Ake!
Re church wall-painting, here ia a link to a site that has a wonderful selection of medieval wall-paintings in English parish churches:
And here is a link to various churches in Suffolk:
Church of the Holy Innocents at Highnam, in Englan, built 1851 by T. Gambier-Parry
Ake!
Here is anoth fine example of the kind of decoration you would expect to see in a good neo gothic church:
Thanks tot he person who brough the following link to the Ecclesiological Society to ,y attention. Nice to see that the Society is still on on the go since 1839:
Re the Ecclesiological Society someone kindly sent me the enclosed drawing of the pillage and iconoclasm wrecked on churches throughout Cambridgeshire and Suffolk by the arch-iconoclast WIlliam Dowsing who spent his time ” smashing glass and other ‘supersititious’ imagery, ripping up monumental brass inscriptions, destroying altar rails and steps, and pulling down crucifixes and crosses”. He, it was, who despoiled the chaples of Cambridge University in 1643-1644. So zealous was the man that he kept a meticulous account of his workls in every church and chapel he visited. The drawing carries the inscription: “The Soldiers in their progress to York turn unto reformers, pull down Popish pictures, break down rails, turn altars into tables” _ sounds here that we are dealing with 17th. century people preparing places for 17th. century liturgy!
Strange, is it not, that the vandalism proposed for Cobh Cathedral by Professor Cathal O’Neil, and so vigourously patronised by Bishop John Magee, Monsignor Denis Reidy, Canon John Terry, Fr. Danny Murphy, Fr. Jim Killeen and Dr. Tom Cavanagh of Fermoy should strike so precisely at the same objects of Christian worship (altar, rail, steps, and imagery) as did their 17th. century forerunner William Dowsing who occupies “pride of place among the sacrilegious invaders of the churches of East Anglia”.
I hope to post some more material from a number of Ecclesiologist sources as soon as possible. It is very enlightening to see the depths of such a bigoted and warped psychology such as that of Dowsing.
Fortunately, we can fill out a little more re. William Dowsing from the following link which has a connection to the famous diary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_DowsingAnd here we some more interesting accounts of his activities many of which will be familiar to readers of this thread:
http://www.colnestour.org/william_dowsing.htmThe Altar piece of the Cathedral of Bale in Swizerland, c. 1025, the gift of the Emperor Henry II and of the Empress Kunigunde, probably made in Fulda:
@samuel j wrote:
Magnificent, what workmanship. Gold leaf or some format of thin layer overlaid on timber carving..?
It is all metal work wityh the metal being gold, gilt silver or gilt copper.
In all some 41 palliotti or golden altars from the period bewteen 1150 and 1250 survive in Scandanavia. Of these, 32 are from Denmark, 5 from Norway, 3 from Iceland and 1 from Sweden. The Danish altar pieces are concentrated in Jutland.
In addition to these, the next greatest concentration is in the Italian peninsula: the Pala d’Oro in St. Mark’s in Venice, the Palliotto of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan, the Palliotto of the Cathedral of Monza, the Palliotto of the Cathedral of Pistoia, the Palliotto of the Cathedral of Città del Castello.
To this must be added the Golden Altar of the Munster of Basel. And the Pala of the of the Order of the Golden Fleece currently kept in Vienna.
