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TTC Video – The World’s Greatest Churches (2017)

TTC Video – The World’s Greatest Churches
Course No. 7842 | English | M4V + PDF Guide | 640 x 360 | AVC ~2000 kbps | 29.970 fpsAAC | 128 kbps | 44.1 KHz | 2 channels | 12:38:07 | 11.2 GB
Genre: eLearning Video / Architecture, Art
The great churches of Christianity represent some of the world’s most stunning masterpieces of architecture and art.
Built by a Byzantine emperor, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is an architectural space of overwhelming grandeur, eMB lazoned with colored marbles and sublime golden mosaics.just because of TTC Video – The World’s Greatest Churches (2017)

The monumental

Cathedral of Siena boasts massive pictorial floor decoration; the Maest? altarpiece by Duccio; and sculpture by Michelangelo, Bernini, and Donatello.

Dreamlike and otherworldly, Gaud?’s Sagrada Fam?lia in Barcelona soars toward the heavens, fashioned inside and out as a single, vast spiritual artwork.
But artistic stature is only one measure of the significance of the great Christian churches. In their essential religious role,

the buildings themselves instruct, edify, and inspire the communities that worship in them, using iconography, syMB olism, and the language of architecture as ultimate expressions of faith.

The decoration of Georgia’s Cathedral of Nikortsminda, one of the world’s most glorious religious buildings, unfurls a resplendent theological vision of Old Testament stories, ecstatic angels, and multiple representations of Christ incarnate.

The iconography

of Chartres Cathedral, apogee of the Gothic style, is a handbook of medieval

Christian spirituality written in elaborate carved stone and stained glass.

The remarkable Wieskirche of Bavaria uses the carefully calibrated syMB olism of

its Rococo decoration to teach spiritual lessons of forgiveness, penance, and reconciliation.

In all eras, the masterworks of church building have been focal points for communities,

cultures, and nations. A familiarity with the greatest of

Christianity’s

churches and cathedrals offers you:
knowledge of an astonishing spectrum of world treasures of art and architecture;

understanding of the syMB olism and theology behind these buildings,

and how they instruct Christians in living the values of the faith;