LAVS is perhaps best known for their mitres as well as their more fully flowing, medieval-styled vestments, but LAVS also occasionally dips into the realm of later cuts, cuts often colloquially referred to as the 'Roman' cut. One of the characteristic stylistic elem…
A 'Roman' Pianeta from Atelier LAVS
LAVS is perhaps best known for their mitres as well as their more fully flowing, medieval-styled vestments, but LAVS also occasionally dips into the realm of later cuts, cuts often colloquially referred to as the 'Roman' cut. One of the characteristic stylistic elem…
Variety and Distinctiveness: Sacra Domus Aurea's 'Gotico Pastello' Gothic Revival Set
Many years ago, in January 2018. we wrote a two part series about The Importance of Variety and Distinctiveness in Vestment Design . In that series we looked at gothic revival vestments (and baroque vestments), and one of the questions we asked about contemporary approaches …
Chiesa di San Lorenzo: One Parish Church's Solemn Mass Set Dedicated to its Patron Saint, St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence, whose feast day is observed today, is one of the most prominent saints of the Church of Rome (and indeed, of the church in Rome proper), being one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome who was ultimately martyred in A.D. 258 at the age of 32 during the pers…
The Papal Mantum
The papal mantum was one of several papal vestments that developed through the centuries only to be ignored and cast aside in a fit of 1960s modernization. Other distinctly papal vestments, for example, included the falda, the subcinctorium, and the exceptionally long fanon…
Contemporary Work: A Monumental Mural of the Transfiguration
The Feast of the Transfiguration is one of those feasts in the liturgical year which really doesn't get the focused, popular devotional attention that it deserves. Now, in the Christian East, the Transfiguration is one of the feasts that they like to particularly highli…
August 5th: Solemnity of Our Lady of Snows (In Dedicationie S. Mariae Ad Nives) in Rome
The Solemnity of Our Lady of Snows in Rome is one of the more beloved annual traditions in Rome. Similar to the feast of Pentecost at the Pantheon, flower pedals are showered down upon the floor of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in commemoration of the event that took place…
Markos Kampanis' Work for Two Byzantine Private Family Chapels
Over the course of LAJ's tenure, we have explored various private chapels. To date these have been exclusively focused on chapels set within the Latin rite context, but something we have never had the opportunity to show to date are such spaces set within the context of…
Exploring Carthusian Liturgical Architecture
While 'Carthusian architecture' is not something one hears spoken of a great deal -- compared to, say, Cistercian architecture -- it seems fair to suggest that there is a recognizable Carthusian style and ordering, one that tends to follow a model similar to that of…
