Mural Paintings, Church of the Summer Residence of the Maronite Patriarch, Diman
Since its construction around the turn of the twentieth century, Our Lady of Diman has served as the summer residence of the Maronite Catholic Patriarch. The prestige of the building is everywhere apparent: in the inlaid marble floor, in the gold and blue panes of the stained-glass windows. The chur...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Yale University
2020
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MAVCOR journal
Année: 2020, Volume: 4, Numéro: 1 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Lebanon
B Landscape B Mural B Ceiling painting B Mural Painting B Fresco |
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| Résumé: | Since its construction around the turn of the twentieth century, Our Lady of Diman has served as the summer residence of the Maronite Catholic Patriarch. The prestige of the building is everywhere apparent: in the inlaid marble floor, in the gold and blue panes of the stained-glass windows. The church’s most remarkable feature, however, is the ceiling over its nave, with frescoes completed in the late 1930s by celebrated Lebanese painter Saliba Douaihy (1913-1994). |
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| ISSN: | 2475-2428 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: MAVCOR journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22332/mav.obj.2020.3 |