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Re: October 31st - Picture of the Day
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Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:21:46 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, John P. Henderson writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Johannes Koehler writes:
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> ...To bring this back to .castle, I wonder what the Reformation did to
> church architecture. It seems that most Lego castle churches I have seen
> reflect a Gothic or Pre-Gothic style. Was this style used by all
> denominations? Or just Roman Catholic? Did some post-Reformation
> denominations use a different architecture style in their churches?
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> Just thinking,
> -Hendo
hi
some things i'd like to add. (also to the parallel post)
most founders of protestant churches lived around 1500 (i don't mean
founders of buildings). the romanesque era ended in most places befor at the
very very most 1300. so all church buildings in western europe befor the
reformation were roman catholic and so are all romanesque and earlier
buildings. if you state the great shisma of 1054 (i think) as the official
beginning of a western/catholic and eastern/orthodox church, buildings befor
that would simply belong to the christian church.
this gets more complicated if you look east and south though. greek/orthodox
churches started in byzantinian style and very gradually changed to their
form of romanesque. and the later orthodox styles always kept a somewhat
more romanesque touch than their western counterparts.
looking further east you have armenian and georgian (on the black sea)
churches wich seem to start in a romanesque style of their own earlier and
stick to it a lot longer than buildings in the west.
go south and you'll find abbessinian churches that if anything at all
resemble the romanesque style the most.
but back to europe.
all or nearlly all churches in northern europe were converted to protestant
churches after the reformation. so for example by say 1535 all churches in
hamburg and luebeck, also the romanesque ones from 1170 or earlier, were
considered as protestant. there was a difference in services though.
in catholic churches there normally was a need for a path for impressive
processions to the altar. preaching was in latin so most couldn't understand
it and this was not (at least by the architects) considered as important as
the rest of the service. most probably thought singing was more vital. also
in larger churches there side altars for saints.
in protestant churches preaching became very important, as the bible could
be now explained in a language the people understood. the chancel became
more prominent in the building and in some churches was raised above the
altar. the old chancels commonly were to one side so the view to the altar
wasn't blocked. since the renaissance this lead to the building of churches
that were often wider than long with everybody facing the chancel on one of
the long sides. also with palladios research on classical antic design
becoming public some churches were build looking more like modern theatres.
so although you can make a good guess of a church in eastern style being
orthodox, telling a protestant church from a catholic one is a lot more
difficult and with reusused buildings often impossable from the outside.
although catholic churches tend to be more decorated on the inside and you
have side altars for saints, some protestant churches keep the old
decoration because of its historic importance and value as art.
castles of the robin hood and ivanhoe style were not build after the
reformation as cannons enforced a different style of fortification. so
gothic (not in the rivival sense) was the last style new castle churches
were build in (in western europe) and most palace churches started in the
following renaissance or barock eras.
can you tell the religion of a church from the outside in america or australia?
bye/tschuess
thomas
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