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The west window of the north aisle depicts a seated Jonah gazing over at the city of Nineveh, a wonderful example of the work of Abraham van Linge, one of two German brothers active in Oxford in the early decades of the 17th century during a rare period of Post-Reformation tolerance for ecclesiastical art and stained glass in particular, sadly snuffed out by the Civil War shortly afterwards. This window was one of several installed in the 1630s, with further windows in the same style installed in the north transept, but sadly most of the remainder were destroyed by a Puritan iconoclast following the surrender of the city to Parliamentary forces and only their traceries remain.
Officially known as Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford's diocesan church is unique in many ways and a bit of an anomaly amongst English cathedrals, being not only one of the very smallest of the older foundations but also the only cathedral anywhere to also serve as a college chapel (a strange and not entirely easy marriage of roles to the uninitiated visitor as this feels more a part of Christ Church College than the mother church of Oxfordshire Diocese).
Its history is even more varied, having originally been founded as the monastic church of St Frideswide, a community that ended its days prematurely ahead of the Dissolution when Cardinal Wolsey suppressed it in order to implement his plans to turn the site into his newly founded Christ's College. The western half of the nave was demolished as work began on the college quadrangle in its place and the truncated remainder would have followed had the founder's original vision of a new chapel been realised. In the end Henry VIII continued work on the college after Wolsey's demise and it was refounded as Christ Church, retaining St Frideswide's monastic church as the chapel. He also raised Oxford to the seat of a diocese in 1542, initially raising the newly dissolved Osney Abbey (to the west of the city) to the rank of cathedral but only two years later in 1544 that role was transferred to Christ Church and St Frideswide's / Christ Church College Chapel has served the role of Oxford's cathedral ever since. Osney was abandoned and one of the city's grandest buildings (and perhaps a more suitable cathedral in many ways) has sadly has all but vanished today.
Entering the cathedral for the first time can be a slightly bewildering experience, it is unlike any other cathedral in the country in that the exterior of the building is really quite elusive and inaccessible for the most part being surrounded by private areas of the college complex. There is no west facade, this was demolished to build the vast quadrangle through which it is now entered, thus one walks into the east side of the college quad with little sense that one is about to emerge inside a small cathedral. The other main route for visitors sends them via the former monastic cloister on the south side, and this is the only area where the public gets to see the external appearance of the cathedral in any detail, otherwise only the 13th century central tower (rising from a Norman base) with its short spire asserts itself above the masses of the college's various wings and courtyards.
Inside it is clear that this is still largely a cruciform late Norman church, the short nave and choir beyond the crossing both defined by round Romanesque arches of c1180, though here with a surprising twist, with a double row of inner and outer arches into the aisles, one superimposed over the other at different heights, a quite eccentric design. The outstanding architectural feature here however is the choir vault, a stunning early fan vault uniquely designed with lace-like ribs in stellar formation and hanging pendants, the visual climax of the interior. The east wall with its rose window was redesigned in the Victorian restoration by George Gilbert Scott to replace a large window (a later insertion) that had filled the entire space.
The most interesting area of the cathedral is the collection of chapels that fill the north east corner, the largest being known as the 'Latin Chapel' and containing medieval tombs including the reconstructed base of the former shrine of St Frideswide. There is much 14th century glass in this chapel too, although the very finest ancient glass here is in the chapel off the south transept where the traceries are filled with some of the most beautiful and richly coloured pieces of medieval glass that have survived.
The post medieval glass here however is equally significant and includes a delightful enamel-painted window by the Van Linge brothers, sadly the only complete window of a sequence installed in the early 17th century to have survived the turbulence of the Civil War. Better known is the sequence of Pre-Raphaelite windows designed by Sir Edward Burne Jones, most in his familiarly graceful style but the earliest (the St Frideswide Window) is quite different and full of rich glowing colour.
Exploring the cathedral doesn't take as long as most of its kind owing to the small scale of the building, but a visit isn't complete without taking in the small cloister and the impressive rectangular chapter house on the south side, a vaulted room of c1300 that has notable carvings and surviving medieval paintings in medallions on the vault.
Christ Church Cathedral is a rewarding place to visit, but it can be a little frustrating and less relaxing than most owing to the constant flow of visitors in a relatively small space. Entry to the college isn't cheap and is the only way for non-residents to visit as one cannot view the cathedral in isolation (visitors currently have to follow a pre-set route around the college dining hall before reaching the church). It does make me wonder how this building manages to function as a diocesan church, but whatever the complications it never fails to deliver with its beautiful architecture and stunning glass.
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Goal: Artwork for a 4 week series on Jonah
Audience: high school students
Direction: Tried to stay away from the whale direction, yet obviously will talk about a storm.
Project: Artwork for Sunday Morning Student Series
Just a minute long short film.
inside some real acrobatics of Jonah, the squirrelcat!
recorded in 1080 HD.
And yes! i'm learning :)
I should mention that the music was by Craig Chaquico. (titled: Sacred Ground)
Go check him out, he makes real good music: www.craigchaquico.com/aboutcraig.html
Actor Jonah Hill at the MegaMind panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
"The Lord had arranged that a great fish should be there to swallow Jonah; and Jonah remained in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. The Lord spoke to the fish, which then vomited Jonah on to the shore."
- Jonah 1:11, which is part of today's first reading at Mass.
This stained glass detail is in Jesus College, Oxford.
Jonah (Superbook by CBN)
Who Did Swallow Jonah? (Cedarmont Kids)
Rie Munoz Whales in the Inlet
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Story interactivity
Whale jug, bendy people
Right end of lower register of the Sarcophagus of Jonah:
The Fisherman
The Sarcophagus of Jonah
Rome Vatican Museo Pio Cristiano, inventory 31448 -
Jonah Sarcophagus about 275 CE
Source:
christian iconography
Here's the adorably
adorable and always beamish
little beamish boy himself
Mr. Jonah Sparks,
leaning against a wall
of our drycleaners
in North Hollywood
on a sunbright
but not too hot
October day. He just
happened to have this
beach ball with him; I love
that he always carries his own
props.
Jonah Falcon stops by AOL Huffington Post in New York for a portrait on Tuesday Mar. 19, 2013. (Damon Dahlen, AOL)
The intimidating Jonah Lomu, All Blacks Rugby Star. In a bath in a London Hotel for Maxim magazine
Technical Notes: Shot on my RB, way back in December 2001. It was the classic - "you've got 10 minutes" photocall, and the first 2 ideas I shot were a little flat to put it mildly. This was my 3rd idea, I'd already asked the hotel manager if there was a suitable room available, and all that remained was to get Jonah's approval. Luckily, he's a very laid back chap, and was well up for it. I shot off 2 rolls (20 frames) before my time ran out, the only light came from a Bowens 500 head with a spilkill into the white ceiling above and behind me, and I was balancing on the toilet to get above him.
This was also in the days before I had a car, or any money for cabs, so I heaved all the gear there myself via public transport and the use of my back. I'm bloody glad I don't do that anymore!
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Middle of the upper register of the Sarcophagus of Jonah: Three bearded men stand above two beardless persons, stretching their arms around the feet of the central man (Jesus).
>I am calling this scene "Resurrected Christ" in light of the strong arguments Fuchs (56-69) presents for judging it a conflation of the Emmaus episode in Luke 24:13-35 and the women's encounter with the resurrected Jesus in Matthew 28:8-10 and Luke 24:1-12. This would be one of the first, if not the first image in Christian art of the resurrected Christ. The key to Fuchs's interpretation is that the persons stretched on the ground and embracing the feet of the central character are dressed and coiffed as women. The only place in scripture where women embrace feet is on the day of the Resurrection, when Jesus meets Mary Magdalene and another Mary, "saying: All hail. But they came up and took hold of his feet, and adored him" (Matthew 28:9).
Luke says there were three women and they "bowed down their countenance towards the ground." (There is a third head in the scene, with a female coif, just to the left of Jesus' right ankle.) Then Luke proceeds immediately to the episode of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, who are probably the men shown here on either side of Jesus.<
The Sarcophagus of Jonah
Rome Vatican Museo Pio Cristiano, inventory 31448 -
Jonah Sarcophagus about 275 CE
Source:
christian iconography
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I'm Jonah, and the world is my whale
the inside of my mind
kept warm wrapped in a ragged sail
digesting my dreams
bursting at the seams
breaking down bacteria and blood
blue is the colour of the sky
the ocean, and love
my heart is shimmering dim in the darkness
like the flame from an electric torch
glinting off a dirty diamond
I'm gone again
in every lake and inland sea
I'm setting free my sinking soul
I'm carving a maul
and smashing a goldfish bowl
every journey we make is swimming in circles
that's part of living on a well-rounded world
there's no up or down
when you're under the water
your hunger is the leader
and your faith is a follower
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