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Ghirlandaio’s Annunciation over the Porta della Mandorla, Florence Cathedral, dating from 1490 and showing many influences taken from Leonardo:
The Annunciation by Murillo (1655)
Sine early times (and it is still the case among the Oriental Churches) the image of the Annunciation depicting the primordia of Salvation always occupied a prominent place on, near or at the main entrance to the sanctuary of Christian churches. Needless to say, with the almost complete obfuscation of its theological and liturgical significance it has all but disappeared in modern church architecture and “artistic” representation. Here are some examples of the subject drawn from eastern and western sources:
@gunter wrote:
Tireless labouring . . . or shameless plundering of architecture’s back catalogue? :rolleyes:
Speaking of which, that High Altar at the church of San Paolo Fuori Mura in Rome, posted by Praxiteles, looks a tad familiar.
the original 13th century gothic alter canopy on the left and the gothic revival Albert memorial on the right.
Apparently there was controversy at the time [1860s] over the Albert Memorial, because of the similarities in the design to that of the Albert Memorial in Manchester.
However, writing in his Recollections, the architect George Gilbert Scott suggested his own design was original:
“My idea in designing the Memorial was to erect a kind of ciborium to protect a statue of the Prince; and its special characteristic was that the ciborium was designed in some degree on the principles of the ancient shrines. These shrines were models of imaginary buildings, such as had never in reality been erected; and my idea was to realise one of these imaginary structures with its precious materials, its inlaying, its enamels, etc. etc. … this was an idea so new as to provoke much opposition.”
Yeah right :rolleyes:Gunter,
Many thanks for this posting. Praxiteles had not made the connection between these two monuments.
@apelles wrote:
Yeah, well there’s definitely some very delusional people out there!
As far as Praxiteles can recollect the first Papal condemnation of masonism is to be found in the Bull In eminenti, Published by Clement XII on April 28 1738 from Santa Maria Maggiore.
It seems a trifle slow to have have awaited a elapse of almost 600 years between the construction of Notre Dame in paris and the condemnation of masonism!!
