Photography--Psychological aspects; Mourning customs in art; Mourning customs in literature; Phenomenology and art
The creation of liminal spaces has been used for centuries cross-culturally to create sacred or taboo meanings in rituals, people, places, or objects. Liminality is constructed by the overlapping of cultural categories and "ruptures" an...
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
Ruins of Sacred Heart Church at Broadway and 17th Street. Church whose roof and walls have collapsed except for the front wall, which still stands. Men stand near the rubble of the building. Caption: Sacred Heart Church after Tornado, Louisville,...
Ruins of Sacred Heart Church at Broadway and 17th Street. Shell of a brick church whose roof and brick walls have collapsed. A tornado struck Louisville on March 27, 1890. Caption: Louisville Tornado. Wreck of Church of Sacred Heart - Interior....
From Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "Comparison of the head of the kouros from the Sacred Gate with the Dipylon Head leaves virtually no doubt that they were created by the same sculptor about 600 BC. He was the first Athenian marble-carver of...
From Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "Comparison of the head of the kouros from the Sacred Gate with the Dipylon Head leaves virtually no doubt that they were created by the same sculptor about 600 BC. He was the first Athenian marble-carver of...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Church schools
Sacred Heart Academy, Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Aerial view of two building clusters amid trees and paths. The cluster on the left is further recessed from the camera and contains a large hexagonal section with a dome and pinnacle, with...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Church schools
Sacred Heart Academy, Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky. View of several pine trees of varying size on the left and diagonal view of three brick buildings on the right. The photograph has been touched up with paint and cut along the uneven...
A large stone statue of the Virgin Mary stands seemingly undamaged amid the wreckage caused by the tornado that hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. The tornado killed an estimated 100 people and many more were injured. Sacred Heart Church...
“A reconstruction of the Dipylon (left) and Sacred gates as they might have appeared in the fifth century BC, before the forward defences [defenses] (proteichisma) and moat were added.” (caption, p.18)
