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Aedicula aediculorumby ~gromyko

Traditional Art / Drawings / Surreal

"Aedicula aediculorum"
30x42inches
ink on board

Semperian Blabbers:

In religion in ancient Rome, an aedicula (plural aediculae) is a small shrine. The word aedicula is the diminutive of the Latin aedes, a temple building or house.

Many aediculae were household shrines that held small altars or statues of the Lares and Penates. The Lares were Roman deities protecting the house and the family household gods. The Penates were originally patron gods (really genii) of the storeroom, later becoming household gods guarding the entire house.

Other aediculae were small shrines within larger temples, usually set on a base, surmounted by a pediment and surrounded by columns. In Roman architecture the aedicula has this representative function in the society. They are installed in public buildings like the Triumphal arch, City gate, or Thermes. The Celsus Library in Ephesus (2. c. AD) is a good example. From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.
As in Classical architecture, in Gothic architecture, too, an aedicula or tabernacle frame is a structural framing device that gives importance to its contents, whether an inscribed plaque, a cult object, a bust or the like, by assuming the tectonic vocabulary of a little building that sets it apart from the wall against which it is placed. A tabernacle frame on a wall serves similar hieratic functions as a free-standing, three-dimensional architectural baldaquin or a ciborium over an altar.

In Late Gothic settings, altarpieces and devotional images were customarily crowned with gables and canopies supported by clustered-column piers, echoing in small the architecture of Gothic churches. Painted ædicules frame figures from sacred history in initial letters of Illuminated manuscripts.

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~serge-o-sketch Apr 27, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

This is an excellent piece, your pen style reminds me of the great Albrecht Durer.

*BlueCrystalEagle Feb 6, 2012

Great symbolism

!Sistheo Jan 4, 2012

Jim Overbeck once gave a roving lecture around the Celsus Library in Ephesus & located the ruins of the church where the Synod of Ephesus was held

~janame Dec 22, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

SO many details - i like it, reminds me of a tarot card

~PeterZigga Dec 18, 2011

Intriguing! And sepia adds mystery..

~Kosslo Nov 11, 2011

Its amazing. Would you like to download some kind of process for this ? What are you using to make such a masterpiece ? Regards !

!LucaRossiMartini Nov 1, 2011

Et voilà, another masterpiece!
(and thanks for the comment, very interesting)

*JOSIPCSOOR Oct 31, 2011

*Zahiruddin Oct 31, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Excellent works! reminds me of wood engravings of old masters, have to say one thing though, get rid of all the borders, they are disturbing your drawings.

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