SACRED ART OF THE APOCALYPSE
This site is dedicated to the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and the Romanesque World in which it flourished in western Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It was a time of Pilgrimage and Crusade and the first revival of monumental stone sculpture since the fall of the Roman Empire. This world is explored through the following categories:
ESCHATOLOGY CHANSONS DE GESTE PILGRIMAGE RECONQUISTA
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA CULT OF THE SAINTS MONASTICISM ROMANESQUE
The Romanesque is an art historical term defining a form of church building and associated art forms, most particularly monumental stone sculpture. In a broader sense it can be used to define a culture.
A time of the mass veneration of the Relics of the Saints. It was a time of anticipation of the End of the World.
This was the time of the most extraordinary pilgrimage of medieval Europe, to the shrine of the Apostle James at Compostela on the far northwestern tip of Spain which was considered the End of the Earth.
The JOINING OF HEAVEN & EARTH explores the Romanesque World through the prism of the PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Each saintly shrine and each place of interest along the pilgrimage roads is to be presented in film. Films can be viewed on the FILM PAGE and are interspersed in the POSTS, as and when their content is discussed . The POSTS contain an ongoing placement of articles which bear upon the subject, sometimes directly, sometimes more obliquely.
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Project musical director is Martin A Smith
