Western Rite Culture, Part III

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 Adapted sketch for a church of St. Birinus at Dorchester:

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  The evolution of the bishop's mitre in the Western lands. 

Westery style iconography at Torcello

Western style iconography, Torcello

Western church decoration: apse at Torcello

WR liturgics: censer

WR liturgics: chalice veil

WR liturgics: veil and burse (in which the corporal cloths are carried to the altar in procession during the Mass)

WR vestments: decoration on an English cope

WR vestments: the alb of Abp. Thomas a Becket of Canterbury

WR vestments: standard vestments for old Roman rite: an illustration from Spain

WR liturgical art: a Western enamel icon

Roodscreen at Yaxley

WR iconography: Cimabue

WR iconography: 13th c. cross

Western iconography of the 13th c.: the Deposition of Christ

Roodscreen dado, in England, Eye

roodscreen, England, Eye

further detail, dado of roodscreen, Eye, England

detail, dado, roodscreen, England, Eye

  roodscreen, Western Rite Orthodox church of the Transfiguration, Woodstock, NY

Western iconography from Assissi: four doctors

WR church decoration: Last Judgment, church at Padua

WR church architecture: west door, church at Melbourne, Britain, with carvings of Apostles

Piscina, where the priest washed his hands before Liturgy, Pickworth, England

roodscreen at Pickworth, England

roodscreen, Pickworth

St. Margaret's Well, Binsey, Oxford

The tomb of St. Genevieve at Paris

Western style iconography, Castel Appiano, ca. 1200 AD

WR iconography: crypt of Aquileia cathedral, 13th c.

roodscreen, S. Julien le Pauvre, Paris, France. This pictures shows how curtains were hung over the doorways in the rood screen, and in some place, it may be, over all the window-like openings in the woodwork. Descriptions of Western rite rood screens (iconostases) from the 9th century mention these curtains.

WR iconography: the choir of Lambach Abbey, ca. 1089 AD

  Liturgical dove (vessel for storing the reserved Eucharistic Gifts in old E. and W. rite)

Portable altar, Abdinghof, 13th c.

  Mont S.-Michel, Brittany (originally an Orthodox monastery)

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