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- The wedding ceremony between Edward, future King Edward VII, and Alexandra of Denmark occurred on March 10, 1863, at Saint George's Chapel within Windsor Castle.
- This royal wedding followed traditional ceremonies deeply rooted in community church practices that also recorded rites from christening to funeral across Europe and North America.
- William Frith painted the wedding scene depicting its pageantry, while other artists like Harriet Backer and Elizabeth Nourse focused on church interiors and frescoes reflecting social and religious events.
- The Reims Cathedral, a historic site for the coronation of French monarchs, was struck by artillery fire on September 20, 1914, causing significant damage. In response, Georges Rochegrosse created a 1915 painting depicting the cathedral’s fiery interior, capturing themes of devastation and the loss of cultural heritage.
- These artistic and historical records highlight churches as central social and cultural sites whose physical and symbolic impacts endured through significant events and evolving communal roles.
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Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh.
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Interiors by Design: Church
Until well into the twentieth century, many of the people across Europe and North America spent time in church. For most communities, a local church was its centre, where everyone underwent their rites of passage from christening to funeral. Church registers recorded those events, and are now a rich source of information for genealogists and historians. Relatively few painters seem to have recorded the interiors of churches, though. Here are som…
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