Editorial: Praeteritum est Prologus
This winter the architecture world mourns the loss of two of the most important leaders in the field who recently passed away. One was a promoter and the other a prophet.
All the World is a Great Altarpiece
by Robert F. Prevost, OSA (His Holiness Pope Leo XIV)
The term “icon” is of Greek origin and means “image.” In contemporary language, according to modern dictionaries, it has two meanings:
The Divine Light of Notre-Dame Cathedral
It was a sunny spring day in May 1959 when I entered the nave of Notre-Dame de Paris for the first time. As I looked up into the seemingly weightless vaults, and then down the colonnade to the distant apse, the sheer beauty of the architecture took my breath away.
Gothic Reason and Grecian Heart
John Henry Newman built three churches—the Church of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas at Littlemore in 1835-1836, a temporary church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception for the Birmingham Oratory at Edgbaston in 1852-1853, and the Catholic University Church at Dublin in 1854-1856.
Innovation at the Toledo Cathedral
At one point, even the most venerable artistic style was once considered new.