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Let's say that I would inherit an antique furniture, nice condition, well maintained over many generations, something from the era of the late 18th Century, curved scrolled, to look beautiful, although somewhat impractical and not very ergonomic. And suppose I would adjust the heirloom with a saw (and significant changes to its structure) to the needs of the present. And the last show of furniture at the Antiquitätenspezis art and junk , that they fell from the clouds as I could lay hands on me as an original, of the impairment not to mention ... (Click for larger view click on the picture)
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| parish church of St. Martin, high village in Breisgau |
Unfortunately, it is likely not only in Robbie Reich be temporarily been the fashion to slaughter Baroque high altar in accordance with spirit of the Council by giving them just the mensa sawed off and has been completely restructured to the people's altar. That may still find it better than the altar completely the church to vacate, at the present sense of the disintegration of saws altars of the Baroque and Rococo (compared to some works of the 19th century, always singly) is a cultural barbarism of all first class. And this feeling could have also cherish already can, when they resorted to the saw, not the view through the spirit of the Council euphoria would have been clouded even more rich.
The Baroque high altar is the way not only celebration, place of worship and place of sacrifice but, seen culturally and historically, also stage (and it would be, but the only way, certainly be interesting to the Tridentine rubrics to postures and movements of the celebrant with the facial-gestural codes of Baroque Opera Seria to put in comparative terms). In the case of sawn ensemble the entire altar-concept, with its ritual and theatrical implications was overthrown: the now early mensa lifts the altar as a dramatic and place - particularly by the (destruction) disruption of the drama - as the total work of art . What remains is a cheap and orientation-confused desk solution, including setting: the accessories with built Blessed Sacrament, the celebrant turns away from the ...
