The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming memoir by Carl Siciliano. We were so moved by his testimony that we asked if we could publish this on Via Lucis. In the fall of 2001, I was reeling under the weight of personal and collective catastrophe. For the past seven years I had been the […]
The church of San Pedro de la Nave is located in the town of El Campillo, San Pedro de la Nave-Almendra municipal unit in Zamora province, near the Spanish-Portuguese border and about 150 kilometers southwest of León. The visitors are led to the church through a pathway of a contemporary landscape design from the visitor […]
In light of the disastrous fire at the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris this week, it seems that this is good time to reprint Douglas Read’s excellent article on the theories of architectural conservation. Douglas Read is a Scottish architect who specializes in the restoration and conservation of buildings of historical importance, a subject near […]
The church of Santa María del Naranco was originally built as part of a palace complex which King Ramiro I (843-850) of Asturias decreed built on the slope of Mount Naranco, about 3 kilometers north of Oviedo. Today, it is placed in a park setting overlooking the city of Oviedo. The construction of the church […]
It is documented that the Monasterio de San Miguel de Escalada was built by abbot Alfonso and his refugee monks who fled Córdoba on the site of an earlier church dedicated to Archangel Michael, probably a Visigothic structure, in the span of twelve months in 913, the historical moment when the Kingdom of León was […]
Readers of Via Lucis would remember that the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe was featured in an article by Dennis some years ago. Whereas The focus of that blog was on the 11th and 12th century fresco painting on the church nave ceiling, the present article is intended to illustrate the unusual vaulting technique used in […]
PLACE is the bedrock of our existence. It ties together our most cherished memories, defines our experiences, and bookmarks our most important experiences. Place is not always at the forefront of what we do, or the defining totem of memory. But it is there, a vital organ in the body of our existence, and when […]
