"The world needs to better gather more data on anti-slavery interventions to attract more interest and new partners," said Amir Dossal, head of Global Partnerships Forum, a non-profit aiming to build partnerships around the 2015 U.N. global goals.
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In October 2010 Amir Dossal, together with Feike Sijbesma, CEO of manufacturing company DSM, received the Humanitarian Award of the United Nations Association of New York for their accomplishments in partnerships to end poverty and world hunger. Amir Dossal was appointed an Ambassador for Peace and Sport, a Monaco- based international organisation, in December 2010. In 2016, the ICAEW bestowed Dossal with an Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2017, Dossal received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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However, dossal is used of some large polytychs which could not be taken on procession in this way. In academic art history, "dossal" is today only likely to be used for such paintings, or the textiles. Cloth dossals rarely achieve much individual notability, but the "Lanercost Dossal" at Lanercost Priory, Cumbria, was specially designed by William Morris and embroidered by local ladies. It is 24 feet wide, in "worsted wools on a felted ground".
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"Dossal" in National Gallery Glossary Retable and reredos are alternative terms for solid structures, as is altarpiece, all of them rather more commonly used today. Dossal remains the usual term for an ornamental cloth suspended behind an altar,Guild; probably attached to the wall behind. This is often called a dossal curtain, and altar screen is also sometimes used as a synonym for a cloth dossal, as well as, more dubiously, for wood or stone screens in various locations in the sanctuary. Curtains at the side of an altar may be called riddels; these may be suspended between riddel posts at the corners of the altar.
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Bigineli P. Derivati aldeiduredici degli eteri acetil- e dossal-acetico. Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, 1893, vol. 23, pp.
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The "Bardi Dossal" in the Bardi Chapel of Santa Croce, Florence. This is usually so called, but is an altarpiece and might also be called a retable or reredos. The shelf it rises from is a retable Dossal curtain, below a painted altarpiece, Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire Green riddel curtains, with a metalwork dossal, in the Mass of St Gilles by the Master of Saint Giles A Dossal (or dossel, dorsel, dosel), from French dos (back), is one of a number of terms for something rising from the back of a church altar. In modern usage, it primarily refers to cloth hangingsGuild but it can also denote a board, often carved or containing a painting, that rises vertically from the back of the altar and to which the cloth is attached.
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Amir is also Commissioner of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development. In December 2010, Prince Albert II of Monaco appointed Dossal as Ambassador for Peace and Sport. In 2014, President Tommy Remengesau, Jr., President of Palau, appointed Dossal as his Special Representative for Global Partnerships. In 2015, the United Nations Global Compact appointed Amir as Special Adviser for Strategic Relationships.
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He qualified from Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, London in 1975 and lives in New York City. He is married to Tas Dossal, and the couple has one son, Zecki.
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Amir DossalAmir A. Dossal (born 29 September 1950), is a British chartered accountant and a social innovator. He is the founder and chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum (GPF), an international platform to address economic and social challenges, through innovative partnerships. Dossal is also co- initiator of the Pearl Initiative, which promotes transparency in the Gulf Region, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union for Global Partnerships.
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More rarely, a cloth dossal may continue as a horizontal "tester" hanging immediately over the altar, giving the cloth of honour configuration typical for enthroned monarchs and others in the Middle Ages, and often seen in medieval and Renaissance paintings of the Virgin Mary in particular.Guild "Dossal" may also be used for a secular vertical cloth of honour, or the vertical part of one. A refinement of the definition of a painted dossal is that it could be easily detached and fitted between poles (or some similar arrangement), and was carried in processions on particular feast-days. This definition is especially found relating to medieval Italy, and the Franciscans, who are thought to have begun this practice, commissioning Berlinghiero Berlinghieri soon after St Francis' canonization in 1228.
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Dossal spearheaded the UN's engagement with companies, foundations & civil society across sectors - Education, Health, Technology, Environment, and Peace, Security & Human Rights. Set-up Diaspora Networks for Africa and the Caribbean to promote new investments in the region. From 2014 Dossal served on the Board of Directors of the TerraMar Project. TerraMar announced that it had ended operations in July 2019 after the sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein, associate of Ghislaine Maxwell, the President and CEO of TerraMar, became public.
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Alan Sykes, "William Morris and his 'Cumbrian ladies' will be strumming their harps as their masterpiece is restored", The Guardian, 14 June 2012 In 2012 it was removed for restoration, which was completed in 2014.The William Morris Lanercost Priory Dossal - History and Conservation by Christine Boyce (27 pages).
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The website has received ideas and support from several celebrities, including Jason Silva of Nat Geo's Brain Games, best-selling author Brian Solis, and founder and chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum Amir Dossal. Silva gave praise to Ideapod, citing both its "curation" - which he feels creates better spaces for people - as well as the fact that he has seen many fans of his "Shots of Awe" series come to the website to "share awe." Dossal felt that it did well at keeping out the "noise" found in other social media websites, and that he found it "refreshing" to see so many different ideas. An interview conducted between Professor Joseph Camilleri and Bruce Kent - the latter a "leading peace and disarmament advocate" - was hosted on Ideapod.
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The Sanctuary is dominated by a large altarpiece—a hanging artwork referred to as a dossal. It was designed by Beverley Shore Bennett, and installed in 1990. It consists of three panels, in total measuring approximately by . The centre panel depicts the Risen Christ; the two side sections contain symbols used in historic Christian art.
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The Board of Directors of the TerraMar Project included former Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) Amir Dossal – who handles $1 billion in the form of a grant from Ted Turner for charities, media executive Steven Haft, and Ariadne Calvo-Platero, daughter of the peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley, Maxwell’s best friend from Oxford.
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Their additions include vestments, chasubles, burses, veils, stoles, maniples, altar cloths, wall hangings and altar fronts. The tapestry dossal on the east wall, designed and woven by Gleeson, contains Celtic symbols borrowed from the Book of Durrow. Materials vary from silk embroidery, gold braid, gold thread, linen, poplin and cotton. In general the textiles are coloured in line with changes in the seasons of the liturgical year.
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An extensive and expensive programme of underpinning and repair to the whole structure had to be undertaken as a matter of urgency. At the same time, it was decided to start decorating the interior. The sanctuary was raised up one metre and a new altar of Ancaster stone backed by an oak dossal and damask hangings was installed. Cheshire sandstone was used for the Tabernacle pillar and the pulpit base.
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Currently (2019) it is no longer on display, obscured by a dossal curtain. The painting in the tympanum is the result of a community arts project that was led by the artist Peter Pelz'Peter Pelz', Dialogue Society. Web resource, accessed 7 April 2019 (c.1990). The large painted murals on the walls on either side of the sanctuary are the result of a 1985 community arts project led by the artist Debbie de Beer.
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The cloister and monastic buildings have been largely dismantled, except for the west range, which was made into a house by Sir Thomas Dacre in the 16th century. The statue of St Mary Magdalene, given by King Edward I, still survives in a niche high up on the west front. A dossal – an embroidered wall hanging – designed by William Morris in 1881, underwent restoration before being replaced behind the priory altar in 2013-14.
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The sanctuary has two sets of pews divided by a broad center aisle. A serpentine balcony supported by iron columns covers the northern third, with a glazed screen creating a narthex. At the south end, a pulpit and lectern front a dais with Communion table in front of a dossal curtain is set in a crenellated Tudor Gothic wooden surround between two sets of organ pipes. On either side are the choir risers.
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During this period M.N. Roy, the spokesperson of the Comintern, was seen as the most dangerous of Indian communists. During that time all the letters written by Roy from Moscow to Dange were intercepted and delivered."Ganachari, Arvind". Evolution of Law of 'Sedition' in the Context of the Indian Freedom Struggle 1837-1922 in Dossal, Mariam and Maloni, Ruby (ed.) State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the Nineteenth Century Mumbai: Popular Prakashan. 1999. p. 175.
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Such an artwork is sometimes called a dossal, a term often reserved instead for an ornamental cloth hanging behind the altar. A painting or a mosaic on the wall can serve the same purpose as a removable altarpiece. An altarpiece may be a single painting or a composition of several panels placed side by side. Especially in the latter case, a series of smaller-scale paintings may act as a kind of base for the main images.
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His earliest established work is a dossal with four scenes, featuring Saint Zenobius, preserved at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. It was displayed at the Saint's actual tomb until 1439 and was created sometime during the term of Archbishop (1205-1230) when the altar was re-consecrated.Angelo Tartuferi, Il Maestro del Bigallo e la pittura della prima metà del Duecento agli Uffizi, Firenze, Edizioni Polistampa, 2007. A slightly earlier "Madonna and Child" at Fiesole Cathedral has also been tentatively identified as his.
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Prior to joining the United Nations, he worked in business for over 15 years. He has lived and worked in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, and North America. Amir regularly undertakes speaking engagements, and serves on several non-profit boards. Dossal is Co-Founder of two other not-for-profits, the Pearl Initiative, a business-led organization promoting transparency and accountability in the Middle East, and the Ocean Sanctuary Alliance, a multi-stakeholder partnership to protect coastal and marine seas around the world.
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A beautiful maroon velveteen Choir Curtain, Dossal Curtain and draperies to match at the two south windows are now installed. In 1950, there were sixty-three members. A new hall has been added to the east side in 1959 to accommodate the growing congregation with classroom space under it with access to the 2.5 acres of land behind the structures. In the late 1990s the sanctuary was refurbished again and the balcony area was covered up as well as four pew areas reducing the capacity to about 180 to this day.
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The Orthodox Armenian Apostolic Church and Catholic Armenian Catholic Church; A comparison to the biblical Veil of the Temple was intended. The small domed structures, usually with red curtains, that are often shown near the writing saint in early Evangelist portraits, especially in the East, represent a ciborium,Bock covers the use and decline of ciborium curtains in considerable detail, though he is an old source. as do the structures surrounding many manuscript portraits of medieval rulers.Grove, 2.1 A single curtain hung, usually on a wall, behind an altar, is called a dossal.
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Until September 2010, Dossal was the United Nations' Chief Liaison for Partnerships. He developed strategic alliances with governments, corporations, foundations and philanthropists to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. One of Dossal's responsibilities was as the UN's Representative for the partnership with media mogul Ted Turner's US$1 billion donation, through the UN Foundation, supporting over 450 programmes and projects for women and children's health, population, climate change, and biodiversity. Amir also oversaw management of the UN Democracy Fund, which he established in 2005, to strengthen institutions and enhance democratic governance in new or restored democracies.
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From 2010 to 2014, he served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union for Global Partnerships. Dossal is a 25-year veteran of the United Nations, and was the UN's Chief Liaison for Partnerships. As Executive Director of the UN Office for Partnerships, he managed the $1 billion gift by media mogul Ted Turner; and forged strategic alliances to address the Millennium Development Goals. He also set-up and managed the UN Democracy Fund, to strengthen democratic processes in new or restored democracies.
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The Bardi Dossal illustrated is such a piece, typical in that it shows a saint, here Saint Francis of Assissi, as the main image, surrounded by scenes from his life.Szakolczai, Arpad, Sociology, Religion and Grace, pp. 94-95, 2007, , 9781134194506, google booksFranco, Bradley R., "The Functions of Early Franciscan Art", in The World of St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Honor of William R. Cook, eds. Bradley Franco, Beth Mulvaney, 2015, BRILL, , 9789004290280, google books In a larger altarpiece, these would be predella scenes running below the main painting.
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The sanctuary fittings include a delicate carved and painted rood screen and parclose screens around an 'English Altar' i.e. altar surrounded on three sides by hangings and a painted dossal, riddelposts with angels and a painted and gilded reredos; this was the kind of altar that the Alcuin Club favoured Sir William St John Hope under the auspices of the Alcuin Club, English Altars from Illuminated Manuscripts, Longman and Green, London, 1899 and Comper used in his early churches. At St Cyrpian's the altar is set beneath a tester placed high up in the roof. Above the rood screen is a suspended rood.
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The church is situated in a rectangular and separated from the street by a small garden. Its designer, the Spanish architect Teodoro de Anasagasti, who blended elements of the traditional Spanish architecture, such as Spanish Romanesque and Mudéjar styles, with specifically Anglican forms, such as the porch or the chancel with its dossal. The church is a single nave temple, parallel to the North-South direction, the transept, and a polygonal section forming the chancel, where the elevated altar is located. On the left a sacristy is located, a Mudéjar-style tower is erected beside the sacristy.
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Since the Independence of India, a few historians and scholars in Bombay have studied local or partial aspects of the period's history. Of particular interest are the works of Mariam Dossal, Pankaj Joshi, Theresa Albuquerque and Fleur de Souza. However, the most significant recent contribution to the study of Bombay's Portuguese layer has come from the research project Bombay Before the British, developed by the Architecture Department of the University of Coimbra between 2004 and 2007. Broadly speaking, the state of the art regarding Bombay's indo-Portuguese historical layer is currently (2012) represented by two PhD dissertations recently concluded in Portugal and also most of the content in the "Heritage of Portuguese Influence" inventory.
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A dossal featuring the Virgin and Child with four saints (accession No. 7) in the Siena Pinacoteca has an identical inscription, but unfortunately the name before "de Senis" has been cut off. It is very often assumed that the missing name is Guido, and gives us some indication of the original appearance of the Madonna at San Domenico. Beyond this, little is known of Guido da Siena and his place in Sienese painting before Duccio. Because he is the only Sienese painter of the time to have surviving works on panel with a signature, he is often viewed as the most important artistic personality at the time and the first master of the great Sienese school of painting.
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Since joining the United Nations in 1985, Dossal has led a number of new initiatives. In 1997 he set up the Management Policy Office to oversee reform within the United Nations and two years later he established the UN Fund for International Partnerships, as the interface for the UN Foundation. In 2005 he set up the UN Democracy Fund followed by the UN Office for Partnerships in 2007 to oversee multiple partnership functions. Other projects included the creation of a business advisory council for the Greater Tumen Region, to attract investment in NE Asia in 2007; the launch of the Digital Health Initiative focused on m-health applications & services, and telemedicine in 2008.
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In 1883 the thousandth anniversary of the founding of the church was celebrated, from 18 July to 5 August. To mark the occasion the church was given a major facelift, with some new oak stalls and an oak screen for the chancel, a new dossal and other hangings from designs by C. E. Kempe, a new pulpit given by the Earl of Scarbrough, a new marble pavement and other improvements, many of them provided as gifts for the occasion. Many other events took place over the festival, and a book was published to mark the church's first thousand years. The Bishop of Durham, J. B. Lightfoot attended and took part in the celebrations, including holding a service for the dedication of the new bells.
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One of the Hutton glass angels; the dossal is visible through the glass The cathedral's nave contains many stained-glass windows by church artist Brian Thomas, who had previously designed windows in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, London. Thomas took as his theme words of St Paul at the Areopagus: “The Unknown God: Him I now proclaim”. The windows were created by Whitefriars of London and depict figures and scenes such as the conversion of St Paul; Jacob, the patriarch who wrestled with an angel; Moses, the law giver; David the hero King; the nativity of Jesus; and Christ's crucifixion and the resurrection. The narthex (lobby) is separated from the rest of the nave by a wall consisting of glass panels depicting figures representing angels.
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The main figure is sitting (possibly on a throne) under a dossal. In front is a driver or oxherd, and there are peasants with pitchforks nearby. According to M. A. Frangipane, that the seal may illustrate a religious scene: It closely resembles another scene, painted on the walls of the same site (a ceremonial procession of a person of high rank, painted in an archaic lineal style in the colours red and black), although the current condition of the wall obscures the exact nature of the vehicle in which he is seated, it is indeed possible to see that it is pulled by a pair of oxen. Professor Sherratt interprets both scenes as presenting manifestations of civil or religious power.
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The non- English word "retable" therefore often refers to what should in English be called a reredos. The situation is further complicated by the frequent modern addition of free-standing altars in front of the old integrated altar, to allow the celebrant to face the congregation, or be closer to it. Dossal' is another term that may overlap with both retable and reredos; today it usually means an altarpiece painting rising at the back of the altar to which it is attached, or a cloth usually hanging on the wall directly behind the altar. The cognate Spanish term, retablo, refers also to a reredos or retrotabulum, although in the specific context of Mexican folk art it may refer to any two- dimensional depiction (usually a framed painting) of a saint or other Christian religious figure, as contrasted with a bulto, a three-dimensional statue of same.
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