More inspirational details from our current travel and pilgrimage to Andalusia…
Freewrites and thumbnails help flesh out ideas, eliminate dead ends, and start a conversation of design and intent…
Our Holy Week pilgrimage to Spain is not without a meditation on the craft and sacrifice that filled our churches with beauty, and our imagination with joy. These are just a few doors we encountered… some from houses, some from churches. Th
The Great Censer we have been honored to design and produce as a completely bespoke, ex novo composition, is soon to debut as the tallest liturgical censer in the world. Crafted in a neogothic style, this censer surpasses the censers of Cava de Tirre
The sacred forest that is the Cordoba cathedral. #sacredarchitecture #travel #heritage #cordoba #spain #sacredart #christian #art #architecture #traditional #classical #liturgical #heritagetravel
We are honored to begin unveiling a Great Censer for the Americas. An entirely new design, this bespoke commission in a neogothic style is taller than both the botafumeiro in Compostela and Cava de Tirreni. Indeed, at nearly 6’ feet high, thi
Redemption. The art and reality of the Cross. Fragment of the True Cross in its reliquary.
Ontological Windows Incarnation.
Almsgiving.
“Holy, Holy, Holy…” New iconography, transmitting the collected wisdom of the ages. #byheritage
Bespoke Faux Pietradura altar frontispiece for a new parish church altar. #churchremodel #newconstruction #catholicchurch #churchdesign #byheritage
Original iconography - St Gabriel Archangel #byheritage
Final touches, details and progress, carving, gilding, and painting of a new retablo for perpetual adoration, and dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe. #byheritage #retablo #blessedsacrament #adoration #prayer #christian #sacredart #bespoke #carvin
Soon to be the largest functional, liturgical, Christian censer in the world. Yes, larger than the botafumeiros of Santiago de Compostela and Cava de' Tirreni. #botafumeiro #worldrecord #censer #incense #noblebeauty #noblesplendor #byheritage
Ongoing work on the murals of St. Michael's Abbey in Silverado, California. Maestro Giovanni Raffa details the image of St. Michael the Archangel, Patron of the Abbey. #iconography #sacredart #churchart #christianart #mural #newchurch #churchconstr
Our iconography team completing murals on site. The work is methodical, silent, focused -- and rewarding. From a technical standpoint, we paint on a highly absorptive chemically bonding plaster layer, which translates to extreme durability, as well
Application of the patina on bronze. A progress image of work finalizing the nearly 9 foot statue of Christ the King by our studios, recently delivered to Christendom College, Virginia. #byheritage #sacredart #bronzesculpture
“Christ the King”, by Heritage, our newest delivery to the Americas. #byheritage #sacredart #christendomcollege