You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. Note Norman tower to the left. A few of the keystones. Window depicts bombing during World War 2.
Gouges in the columns due to the bomb. Elephant misericord, one of 50 in the cathedral. Ornate astronomical clock has the sun at the center. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here The window on display at the British Museum has been rearranged for viewing in the correct narrative order, possibly for the first time in more than years.
It is also the first time this window can be seen up close at eye level. In addition, the exhibition brings St. Some of the objects on loan include items that may have been owned by Becket himself, such as manuscripts from Trinity College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Yet his story has never been told on this scale in a U. We are grateful to those who are contributing loans, including Canterbury Cathedral, whose loan of a Miracle Window will be the stunning centerpiece.
Lloyd de Beer, co-curator of the exhibition, sees a contemporary appeal in what is on display. Many considered it to be one of the most scandalous acts of sacrilege in English history.
On Feb. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo , to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone or wood is a lowering of the field, leaving the unsculpted parts seemingly raised.
The technique involves considerable chiselling away of the background, which is a time-consuming exercise. On the other hand, a relief saves forming the rear of a subject, and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round, especially one of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point, especially in stone.
Selenite , satin spar , desert rose , gypsum flower are crystal habit varieties of the mineral gypsum. It is in the orthorhombic crystal system, with three directions of perfect cleavage parallel to the three planes of symmetry.
It is not isomorphous with the orthorhombic barium baryte and strontium celestine sulfates, as might be expected from the chemical formulas. Distinctly developed crystals are somewhat rare, the mineral usually presenting the form of cleavage masses. The Mohs hardness is 3. The color is white, sometimes greyish, bluish, or purple. On the best developed of the three cleavages, the lustre is pearly; on other surfaces it is glassy.
Anhydrite is commonly associated with calcite, halite, and sulfides such as galena, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and pyrite in vein deposits. Flowstones are composed of sheetlike deposits of calcite or other carbonate minerals, formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave. They are typically found in "solution caves", in limestone, where they are the most common speleothem. However, they may form in any type of cave where water enters that has picked up dissolved minerals.
Flowstones are formed via the degassing of vadose percolation waters. Limescale is a hard, chalky deposit, consisting mainly of calcium carbonate CaCO 3. It often builds up inside kettles, boilers, and pipework, especially that for hot water. It is also often found as a similar deposit on the inner surfaces of old pipes and other surfaces where "hard water" has flowed. Limescale also forms as travertine or tufa in hard water springs.
A Stone sculpture is an object made of stone which has been shaped, usually by carving, or assembled to form a visually interesting three-dimensional shape. Stone is more durable than most alternative materials, making it especially important in architectural sculpture on the outside of buildings. Alabaster is a name applied to certain minerals, mainly gypsum and calcite.
Alabaster may also refer to:. Nottingham alabaster is a term used to refer to the English sculpture industry, mostly of relatively small religious carvings, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the early sixteenth century.
Alabaster carvers were at work in London, York and Burton-on-Trent, and many probably worked very close to the rural mines, but the largest concentration was around Nottingham. This has led to all the English medieval output being referred to as "Nottingham alabaster". Hardstone carving is a general term in art history and archaeology for the artistic carving of predominantly semi-precious stones, such as jade, rock crystal, agate, onyx, jasper, serpentinite, or carnelian, and for an object made in this way.
Normally the objects are small, and the category overlaps with both jewellery and sculpture. Hardstone carving is sometimes referred to by the Italian term pietre dure ; however, pietra dura is the common term used for stone inlay work, which causes some confusion. Hardstone is a non-scientific term, mostly encountered in the decorative arts or archaeology, that has a similar meaning to semi-precious stones, or gemstones. Very hard building stones, such as granite, are not included in the term in this sense, but only stones which are fairly hard and regarded as attractive — ones which could be used in jewellery.
Hardstone carving is the three-dimensional carving for artistic purposes of semi-precious stones such as jade, agate, onyx, rock crystal, sard or carnelian, and a general term for an object made in this way. Two-dimensional inlay techniques for floors, furniture and walls include pietre dure, opus sectile, and medieval Cosmatesque work — these typically inlay hardstone pieces into a background of marble or some other building stone.
Calcareous sinter is a freshwater calcium carbonate deposit, also known as calc-sinter. Deposits are characterised by low porosity and well-developed lamination, often forming crusts or sedimentary rock layers. Calcareous sinter should not be confused with siliceous sinter, which the term sinter more frequently refers to.
It has been suggested that the term "sinter" should be restricted to siliceous spring deposits and be dropped for calcareous deposits entirely. Lightly colored, translucent, and soft calcium minerals, typically gypsum. For other uses, see Alabaster disambiguation. This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Necropolis of Hillah, near Babylon. Alabaster, gold, terracotta and rubies. Alabaster statue, Yemen 1st century BC. Assyrian relief; King Ashurbanipal spears a lion. Alabaster sepulchral monument of Nicholas Fitzherbert, d.
Alabaster windows in the choir of Fossanova Abbey church 12th century in Latina, Italy. Alabaster windows and rosette in the central apse of Casamari Abbey church — in Lazio , Italy. Alabaster window in Orvieto Cathedral 14th century , Italy.
Brooklyn Museum. Alabaster lamp, Aachen Cathedral , Germany early 20th century. Objet d'art with gypsum alabaster base, showing typical mottling modern. Sanderson and Francis Cheetham. In Chisholm, Hugh ed.
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