That sacred art scarcely exists today is all too clear. We can perhaps speak of a "religious," but certainly not a sacred art. True sacred art is not sentimental or psychological, but ontological and cosmological in nature. Sacred art cannot be the result of the feelings, fantasies, or even "thought" of the artist-as with most modern art-but rather the translation of a reality largely surpassing the limits of human individuality. Sacred art is precisely a supra-human art. The temple of former times was an "instrument" of recollection, joy, sacrifice, and exaltation. First through the harmonious combination of a thousand crafted symbols, then by offering itself as a receptacle to the symbols of the liturgy. For the temple and the liturgy together constitute a prodigious formula capable of preparing man to become aware of the descent of Grace, of the epiphany of the Spirit in corporeity. It is a matter of urgency, then, to recall what is true in sacred art, especially since in the cultural wasteland of our age signs of resistance to its anarchy and subversion manifest themselves, and a pressing call is felt to recover the traditional conceptions that must form the basis and condition of any restoration.
Author(s): Jean Hani
Publisher: CEG
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: Direct translation of the portuguese scan
Pages: 171
City: Vatican
Tags: Christianity; Christian; Catholic; Catholicism; Orthodox; Orthodoxy; Esoteric; Mystical; Mystic; Perennialism; Traditionalism; Traditional; Tradition; Temple; Church; Cathedral; Architecture; Art; Sacred; Sacred Art; Sacred Architecture; Sacred Geometry; Symbol; Symbolism; Symbolic
Introduction
I - Theological Symbolism and Cosmological Symbolism
II - The Celestial Origin of the Temple
III - Temple and Cosmos
IV - Numeric Harmonies
V - Ritual Orientation
VI - The Temple, Body of the God-Man
VII - Corpus Mysticum
VIII - Bells and Bell Towers
IX - Holy Water Font and Baptistry
X - The Door
XI - Labyrinths
XII - The Altar and Christ
XIII - The Altar: Lights on the Holy Mountain
XIV - Space and Time, Temple and Liturgy
XV - Sol Iustitiae
XVI - The Light of Easter
XVII - The Mass and the Construction of the Spiritual Temple
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