In addition the author devotes two chapters in part 7 to archaeological findings about the
baptisteries surviving from these centuries for what they might suggest about baptismal practice.
City
baptisteries were hardly mere holdovers from paleochristianity; instead they had special importance as a visible sign of civic identity and pride.
Since then, the firm has built dozens of
baptisteries, fountains, water-features and swimming pools for local churches and pastors.
For the latter, Charles McClendon reappraises church building in Northern Italy around the turn of the millennium (and incidentally tilts at Glaber, whose knowledge of Italy seems to have been confined to the Piedmont), with particular concentration on bell towers and
baptisteries. For Germany Richard Plant provides an extremely succinct introduction to imperial architecture north of the Alps, interspersing brief sections on each of the important buildings with doses of historiography.
(Indeed, he really does not go into this aspect, a la Thomas Mathews and school, except for the section on
baptisteries and changes in baptismal practice [chap.
Unlike much of Renaissance architecture, where we easily recognize a representation of the Corinthian order, triumphal arch, temple front, or tholos, and in contrast to certain Tuscan Romanesque buildings such as the
Baptisteries of Florence and Pisa, respectively modeled directly on the Pantheon and Holy Sepulchre, the Florentine Trecento developed in its major buildings an extremely sophisticated and poetic art of allusion, collaging, and concatenation of representational for ms.
From the beginning, Wesley's paintings have been permeated by the atmosphere of this kind of ornament--by the ambience of Greek vessels, Scythian tattoos, Roman mosaic, Islamic tile work, chivalric heraldry, Gothic illumination, Edo screens, and Rococo
baptisteries. And, even in sophisticated disguise, even when their subjects must be inferred rather than asserted, Wesley's paintings always locate the source of our levity and good humor in the fact of what we love and present it to us refined and intensified.
This movement was a reawakening or rebirth of the Classical devotion to sculpture and emphasised this medium over frescoes for the insides of churches, cathedrals,
baptisteries and sacristies.
The book concludes with two excursuses on the architecture and art of
baptisteries.
Valuation of fixtures such as built-in organs, sound systems, fixed seating, stained glass, faceted glass, domes, and
baptisteries frequently becomes relevant in the appraisal of religious facilities.
Many churches were located close to rivers and creeks and lacked funds to install indoor
baptisteries. Outdoor baptismal services were usually held in the spring and summer and, often but not always, followed revival meetings at local Baptist churches.
And how was baptism administered in the other churches, where no
baptisteries are mentioned?
