Izradu internetske stranice sufinancirala je Europska unija u okviru operativnog programa Konkurentnost i kohezija iz Europskog fonda za regionalni razvoj. Sculptural fragments revealed by excavations and works over the 19th century were the genesis of the Lapidarium collection today.

Et lapidarium er et område, oftest i forbindelse med en kirkegård, hvor særligt bevaringsværdige minde- og gravsten opstilles. For over 400 years Rochester Cathedral was a small apisal structure set within a churchyard served by a small number of secular canons. Commonly referred to as the Anglo-Saxon period, each of the three fragments dating to before the Norman Conquest reveal a more complicated lineage. Lapidárium – kőtár a ( latin lapidarius – kő szóból) Hely, ahol természetes előfordulású köveket vagy szobrok, síremlékek, emlékművek és műemlék épületek maradványait őrzik és bemutatják. A kiállítást vagy szabad téren vagy zárt helyiségekben ( múzeumokban, képtárakban, parkokban, udvarokban) rendezik meg. Az első lapidáriumok a reneszánszban létesültek, a 19. században széles körben elterjedtek. Judah is an amazing writer. She weaves stone through human history showing us how we gave different types of stone the power of royalty and worship. She breaks down the history of each individual stone and how it’s impacted the human race through history. We interweave them in our mythology. They become a medium for our artwork generation after generation. Our advancement as a species came about by forging stone tools even now the Industrial Revolution was possible because of coal. Acest text este disponibil sub licența Creative Commons cu atribuire și distribuire în condiții identice;The Lapidarium of Kings is intriguing from the outside, but it’s even more fascinating once you get inside. Arnold's catalogue of the stones, begun in 1992, records 252 stones including nine very large stones remaining around the Cathedral floor at that time, as well as smaller collections of tile, wood and assorted finds from 20th century excavations. This 1992 catalogue corresponds to Tipp-Ex markings on the stones and it is this numbering system which has been extended by this survey, although Tipp-Ex is no longer used! In 1995, the Lapidarium was placed in the top ten of most beautiful exhibitions in Europe in an international competition.

Taking a cue from Arnold's initial investigations, the Lapidarium database has been expanded to include a comprehensive 3D record of the 350 in-situ spolia reused around the Cathedral and Precinct. Together these corpora are vital in understanding the medieval fabric of the Cathedral and Cloisters. The west triforium passage of the Nave North Aisle is largely composed of other Romanesque architectural fragments from the west façade replaced during the insertion of the Great West Window. Scaffolding along the north side of the Cathedral in recent years has provided once-in-a-lifetime access for recording. The Nave north and south walls incorporate fragments of former Romanesque windows and the Perpendicular clerestory features dozens of shaft drums reused from the former Romanesque clerestory. Dozens of marble sculptural fragments from the twelfth-century cloisters are reused in the external facing of the Old Deanery, accessed using the 10m aerial-work-platform funded by the Friends in 2007 and still going strong! Together with the Lapidarium collection, this sizeable database is now available online in 3D (via www.rochestercathedral.org/lapidarium), preserving and opening these collections for further study as we piece together our understanding of the medieval Cathedral.

We learn, too, of the Mohs Scale that judges hardness, a logarithmic affair where diamond (at the top, scoring 10) can scratch corundum (nine) all the way down to talc (one). Notes and Observations of the Reverend Dr. [Robert] Stevens, Dean of Rochester, which may be found useful to succeeding Deans, Medway Archives DR/Acz/1 (1820-43), pp. 65 and 67-69. An account is also given in the Gentleman's Magazine for January 1825, p.76-77. Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.

The collection items in the Lapidarium come mostly from Prague and Central Bohemia. During the reconstructions of the individual buildings, and also the demolitions of entire city quarters, many valuable pieces were saved and passed to the National Museum. The museum, therefore, acquired the most extensive sets of stone carving works and sculptures between approximately 1890 and 1930, during the period of redevelopment of old Prague. The irreplaceable monuments come from demolished churches (the complex of St. Vitus Cathedral, Vyšehrad), aristocratic palaces and burgher’s houses, and also archaeological and building surveys. Due to modernization and transportation, monuments and fountains that stood in the way of traffic on new crossroads and tram lines (Krocín Fountain on the Old Town Square, the Monument to St. Wenceslaus with a fountain in the Horse Market Square, the Monument to Marshal Radetzky on Lesser Town Square) had to be removed, and they found a place in the museum. The memorials and monuments associated with the Habsburg Monarchy, which were either spontaneously or deliberately removed after the declaration of the independence of Czechoslovakia in 1918, found asylum in the Lapidarium (the Marian column on the Old Town Square, the Memorial to Francis I). Many precious sculptures have entered the Lapidarium‘s collection in recent years, after the originals were replaced by copies (the sculptural decorations of the Old Town Bridge Tower and the Charles Bridge). Jacob Scott reports on the move of the Lapidarium stone fragment collection from its previous siting to a new more suitable space. Featured in The Friends of Rochester Cathedral Annual Report 2021. Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this audiobook is a beautiful collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared historyFigure 1, A-K. Screenshots of 3D models of the some of the finest items in the Lapidarium collection. The moody millstone grit looming over those West Yorkshire moorlands, reshaped by centuries of savage winds and harsh rains, but as abrasive and tough as ever, provides reference to one of the county’s most famous authors, forged by the landscape into which she was born. In a forward to Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, just a year before her death, her sister Charlotte pictured Emily as a sculptor chiselling the novel ‘hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials… its colouring is of mellow grey, and moorland moss clothes it’, and the poet Anne Carson relates to that same abrasive stone texture in terms of her father’s memory fractured through Alzheimer’s; Having lived in Copenhagen for over ten years, I can share valuable insights to help you make the most of your visit and provide information on the city’s unique attractions and culture.

The first hall is devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic period. E.g. there is afragment of the oldest Czech monumental relief from atympanum from Oldříš, achildren’s epitaph of Guta II, the tenth daughter of King Wenceslaus II, from the Convent of St. Agnes, pillars from the crypt decoration of the former Basilica of St. Vitus at the Prague Castle or our oldest preserved space sculpture – acouple of lying lions on apedestal, from the beginning of the 13 th century and last but not least aset of engraved Gothic epitaphs of the abbots from Ostrov uDavle. Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.With international inspiration, not least from France, the kings of Denmark have used statues to symbolise their power for centuries on the facades and in the gardens of their palaces, and in the towns and cities of Denmark, including imposing equestrian statues, beautiful goddesses and bombastic trophies. Anneliese Arnold, wife of Dean John Arnold (1978-1989), noted that despite Payne's efforts the majority of fragments had since been scattered again, a few preserved elsewhere in the cathedral, but many ‘simply piled up on a ledge inside the ruined Chapter House, exposed to the weather. Some of the best have disappeared, doubtless taken as souvenirs or ornaments.’ Following discussions with Cathedral Architect Emil Godfrey in 1981 Arnold established the Lapidarium in a chamber over the east of the North Quire Transept. In the sixth hall is an impressive original of an equestrian statue of Good King Wenceslas that used to be on Wenceslas Square (then called horse market) up to the mid 19th century. It is a very different version from the one currently on the square, and I much prefer this one. You could almost say a lapidarium is a museum or storage building for stone and plaster sculptures. Is The Lapidarium of Kings in Copenhagen Worth Visiting? Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.