Talk:Roman Catholic Marian architecture

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[edit] Name

This should be renamed from "architecture" to "buildings"/churches or something, unless you can demonstrate that different architectural styles or forms were used in buildings dedicated to Mary from other contemporary Catholic buildings. I think think this will prove difficult. Johnbod (talk) 23:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Well John, as the art expert, what do you think will be a title that will convey the idea and yet does not sound like we are discussing building permits, etc. The idea is to show the progression of these churches. Please suggest a few and that will get the ideas rolling. Thanks History2007 (talk) 23:41, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What a difference a day makes

John: Yesterday I was almost ready to agree with you to change the name to something else. But today someone kindly added a new category and I think Wikipedia consistently uses the term architecture for the purposes of this article. Examples are:

• Category:Religious architecture
• Category:Church architecture
• Category:Cathedral architecture
• Sacred architecture
• Church architecture
• Marian and Holy Trinity columns
• Cathedral architecture of Western Europe
• Christian architecture

So today I think the article has exactly the right name. So this article will look at the same type of progression of architecture as the others have documented, say Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, ... Modern, etc. and look at how the Marian churches progressed as influenced by the growth of Mariology. The fact is that Marian architectures were a manifestation of Marian belief - as was Marian art and music.

If done right, it should be a nice article. Again, if you know this topic, please feel free to develop the page. Thanks History2007 (talk) 07:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC)