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The inside of Kitzbuhel (strictly the Andreaskirche) is certainly along those lines - the most interesting piece is apparently the main altarpiece, but since it ws Lent when we were there this year, it was covered with purple cloth. We also saw the Hofkirche which has amazing bigger than life size cast iron statues from the 16th century, guarding the cenotaph commermorating Maximilian I. You weren't allowed to take photos inside there though, and it was rather sandwiched between various other buildings outside. |
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« Reply #136 on: 22:16:15, 01-04-2008 » |
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I must say rococo church interiors are the thing about Germany that I find most attractive - perhaps you have to be that earnest in the first place to be so OTT camp in any public building. The same style can be found in the German speaking part of Italy, as here as Lavis, on the road up to Bolzano, and the Brenner beyond.  It is not that significant: we just happened to stop there for a break last year on the way north of the Alps and came across it. |
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« Reply #137 on: 22:36:39, 01-04-2008 » |
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...St. Mary the Virgin, Iffley, Oxford ... IIRC it is one of the few where representative traces of paint still exist (or haven't been covered in later centuries) from almost all the surfaces so it is possible to reconstruct exactly how it would have looked. That's very interesting and I will investigate further when I am next nearby. When I was there I was told that they had discovered some original wall paintings behind the organ when it was being restored, which are for now sadly not possible to see, as that's where they remain. The only things I remember seeing are these markings on the wall, made in the 12th century by the bishop at the consecration of the church:  Here also are some of the internal zig-zag carvings on the arches you mention:  and the ones on the West and South door arches also include far more pictorial detail:  And yes, Iffley Lock is just down the hill, and it seems so natural to drift down there after a visit to the church. |
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« Reply #139 on: 12:06:24, 02-04-2008 » |
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Mary, thank you so much for that. The interactive link is great! You can really step into the window, as it were.
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« Reply #140 on: 12:12:04, 02-04-2008 » |
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Yes, thank you Mary. The interactivity does not work for me so far, but it may well be my machine.
The figure of St Francis balancing Dodgson himself, (kneeling rather nicely as donor in surplice and hood) is very, very 1930s, the date of the window. Francis did not figure in much church art until then.
The design of the window is pleasant, but a reminder of how untouched by modernism British public art generally was until 1945. (And no bad thing Sydney Grew would say of course.)
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« Reply #141 on: 12:13:29, 02-04-2008 » |
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It's certainly a bit on the sentimental side!
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« Reply #142 on: 22:21:32, 02-04-2008 » |
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No apologies at all for a second view of Inverarity's White Kirk, taken at a different time of day and from another angle, this morning. Plenty of gravestones here, Mary. |
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« Reply #143 on: 22:28:23, 02-04-2008 » |
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That's superb, Ron. Very much to my taste!
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« Reply #145 on: 23:42:30, 02-04-2008 » |
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And after my frivolous catholic C18 rococo places of worship of last night, here is a suitably restrained protestant C18 place of worship in Bristol  These are the New Rooms of John Wesley in Bristol, and a reminder of how basic C18 Anglicans expected their churches to be. (Wesley was certain he was a good Anglican all his life. The Methodists only split from the Church of England after his death.) |
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« Reply #146 on: 01:31:31, 03-04-2008 » |
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No, Andy.  This one: |  |
With acknowledgements to Osbert Lancaster ( A Cartoon History of Architecture) |
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« Reply #147 on: 08:14:01, 03-04-2008 » |
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O Kitty - I love that book. I think the cartoon is St Martin in the Fields (the spire on a portico) but the period is right.
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« Reply #148 on: 09:39:19, 03-04-2008 » |
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More from Brechin. This is the east façade: the Round Tower is to the rear left. As at Inverarity, the graveyard is immaculate. |
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« Reply #149 on: 10:25:54, 08-04-2008 » |
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Here's another local church; Abirlot ( pr. a-BE RR-lot), just down the road. (The name is almost certainly a contraction of Aber + Elliott, the river which runs through the village in a deep ravine. These contractions of names are a local speciality: Arbroath, the nearest big town, having started out life as Aberbrothock.) |
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