The Cistercian Order.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 31788 |
| Format | 21.5 x 27.3 |
| Détails | 232 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2005 |
| Etat | Occasion |
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- A sensitive and luminous celebration of the Cistercian world through text and image, using a special printing process to render the blacks. A new edition identical to the first edition of 1972.
Is there a more contemporary sacred architecture than that of these monasteries built in the 12th century by men fleeing the tumult of the cities to find solitude, silence, water, stone, and light in the forest? Generated by the natural and supernatural space, the geographical and mystical "environment" of the Desert, determined by a "lifestyle", the rule of Saint Benedict, the Cistercian monastery is an example of what we call today functional architecture. An agricultural instrument and a liturgical instrument, an instrument of prayer, Cistercian architecture articulates and structures, in a rigorous order, around the cloister, its different buildings according to their use from hour to canonical hour, to the solar rhythm of the divine office. It is this movement of shadow and light, informing the architecture from sunrise to sunset and from winter to summer, that the photographs in this book have captured, by recording step by step the regular places visited by the 12th-century monk in his daily life, from Matins to Compline. Placed alongside these photographs, exceptionally inhabited by the mystery and bare forms of the monastic space, 12th-century texts allow us to follow at the same time the inner movement of Cistercian meditation and contemplation, in search of a Light that Bernard of Clairvaux said was embodied in Shadow and Stone.... Of all the architecture of Cîteaux, none was more favorable to this demonstration than that of the "three Provençal sisters", Sénanque, Silvacane and Thoronet. They are reproduced here with the help of a revolutionary printing process particularly capable of reproducing the depth of blacks and the density of light.
- A sensitive and luminous celebration of the Cistercian world through text and image, using a special printing process to render the blacks. A new edition identical to the first edition of 1972.
Is there a more contemporary sacred architecture than that of these monasteries built in the 12th century by men fleeing the tumult of the cities to find solitude, silence, water, stone, and light in the forest? Generated by the natural and supernatural space, the geographical and mystical "environment" of the Desert, determined by a "lifestyle", the rule of Saint Benedict, the Cistercian monastery is an example of what we call today functional architecture. An agricultural instrument and a liturgical instrument, an instrument of prayer, Cistercian architecture articulates and structures, in a rigorous order, around the cloister, its different buildings according to their use from hour to canonical hour, to the solar rhythm of the divine office. It is this movement of shadow and light, informing the architecture from sunrise to sunset and from winter to summer, that the photographs in this book have captured, by recording step by step the regular places visited by the 12th-century monk in his daily life, from Matins to Compline. Placed alongside these photographs, exceptionally inhabited by the mystery and bare forms of the monastic space, 12th-century texts allow us to follow at the same time the inner movement of Cistercian meditation and contemplation, in search of a Light that Bernard of Clairvaux said was embodied in Shadow and Stone.... Of all the architecture of Cîteaux, none was more favorable to this demonstration than that of the "three Provençal sisters", Sénanque, Silvacane and Thoronet. They are reproduced here with the help of a revolutionary printing process particularly capable of reproducing the depth of blacks and the density of light.