Sacred Architecture of London
Autor Nigel Pennicken Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2012
An exploration into the sacred geometry, spiritual symbols, and emblems that make the churches of London some of the most notable buildings in the city.
London has a unique series of churches built after the Great Fire of 1666, when most of the City of London was destroyed. Among these iconic churches are St Paul¿s, St Mary-le-Bow, St Bride¿s, St Clement Danes, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Strand, St George Bloomsbury and Christ Church Spitalfields. They remain today as outstanding landmarks that define their local cityscapes. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and his followers ¿ Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Archer and James ¿ these beautiful churches embody spiritual principles expressed through the conventions of Classical architecture. Underlying their outward, visible forms is sacred geometry, an ancient art that explores the invisible inner structure of the Cosmos and gives expression to it in physical form.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1904658628
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Aeon Books
Cuprins
Introduction
1. Legend, Precepts and Principles
2. Spiritual Principles: Place, Times and Form
3. Number, Measure and Harmony
4. The Sacred Art of Geometry in Action
5. Practical Geometry Techniques
6. Symbols and Emblemata
7. Towers and Steeples
8. Masterworks of a Superior Order
Postscript
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Glossary of technical terms
Appendix 2: A chronology of London classical church building
Appendix 3: London multi-stage steeples completion dates
Notă biografică
Nigel Campbell Pennick (born 1946 in Guildford, Surrey, England) is a marine biologist, who has also published on occultism, magic, natural magic, divination, subterranea, rural folk customs, traditional performance and Celtic art as well as runosophy.
He is a writer on marine species as well as an occultist and geomancer. He also writes on European arts and crafts, buildings, landscape and spiritual traditions. He has written several booklets on the history of urban transport in Cambridge and London. He is best known for his research on geomancy, labyrinths, sacred geometry, the spiritual arts and crafts, esoteric alphabets and Germanic runic studies.