🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details Johann Peter Schwanthaler belonged to a renowned family of sculptors that produced works for religious and domestic settings throughout Bavaria, Austria, and southern Germany for more than 250 years. This imposing image of God...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This elegant panel once served as the center of an ivory triptych. Set into an intricate architectural frame that recalls Gothic forms, the figures are carved in three-quarter relief, suggesting free-standing sculptures placed in niches. Below,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The epitome of an intellectual Christian saint, Catherine of Alexandria is said to have debated the foremost philosophers of her age and converted them to Christianity with her brilliant logic. Her legend recounts that she was...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Sainte-Chapelle is a royal chapel in the Gothic style. Construction began sometime after 1238 and the chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248. Most of the sculpture of the portals was destroyed during the French...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A Requiem Mass differs in several ways from the usual Mass, therefore a unique missal is utilized by priests. Omissions include the use of incense at the Introit and the Gospel, the kiss of peace, lit...
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