Navarro, Juax Sijion, a Spanish painter who de- voted himself mostly to sacred art, flourished at Jla- drid about 1650. He attained considerable distinction. There is a Ilolg Family by him, which is well colored, but inferior. In a convent of the Carmelites at Ma- drid there are two of his pictures, representing a Nativ- itij and an Epiphany. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine Arts, ii, 610.
Nave (Creek vaoq) is the technical term applied to the part ol a church ccclesiasticalh constructed \\cst-
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ward of the choir in which the general congrejjation as- sembles; in large buildings it consists of a central division or body, with two or more aisles, and there is sometimes a series of small chapels at the sides beyond the aisles; in smaller buildings it is often without aisles, but has frequently two or more, and sometimes one. In the cathedrals and conventual churches the nave was gen- erally separated from the choir by a screen, which in most instances still remains; on the western side of this, next the nave, one or more altars were occasional- ly placed ; one is recorded, for instance, to have stood thus at Canterbury Cathedral previous to the lire in 1174; the same arrangement appears also to have been formerly common in France, though, with but very few exceptions, the old screens have been removed to make way for light, open partitions. Previous to the Kefor- mation the pulpit was always placed in the nave, as it still is at Ely and Chichester, and always in IJoman Catholic churches on the continent ; the font also stood there, usually near the west end, sometimes in the mid- dle, and now and then in an aisle, or adjoining one of the pillars. We occasionally lind the word iKiris applied in- stead nhidve ; but there is no relation between the words, since ?i(ifis is from the Greek word vavc, a s/iip, and nave from vnuc, a temple. Other names were some- times given to it descriptive of its uses, such as oruto- rium laid. tKKXijffia, the assemblff, quadixitum populi, in allusion to the square form of this part, as distinguished from the semicircular chancel. In some of our old writ- ers the word is written wf. The reader will find a fidl description of the various parts of an ancient church under the word CufKCii. See Farrar, Kecks. Diet. s. v. ; lliddle, Christian Antiquities (.see Index) ; "Wolcott, Sa- cred A rchwol. s. V. : Parker, Gloss, of A rchit.s.-\. ; Nealc, IJist. East. Ch. (Introd.). \
Nave (25, r/ah, anything convex or arched, as the back of an animal, Ezra x, 12 ; boss of a shield. Job xv, 20), the rim or arch of a wheel. The word occurs in describing the wheels of the ten bases of brass, upon which the levers stood, in the court of Solomon's Tem- ple (1 Kings vii, 33). See Lavkr.
Nave (Lat. Xavieus), Joseph de, a Belgian theo- logian, was born at Yicsme, near Liege, in lO.')!. Me was ijriifessor of pliilosophy at Louvain, and in the Seminary of Liege. lie was provided with a jirebend in the cathedral of St. Paul, l)ut resigned his benelice on account of feeble health. His connections with Op- straet. Arnauld, I)n Yaucel, and (Juesnel show that he shared their sentiments; and the last liaving address- ed to him a letter some days before his death, he re- quested it to be placed in his coffin with a New Testa- ment. He died at Liege April 10, 17(1.'). We have of his works. Memoir containitnj Reasons for not irithdraiv- hiij the Seminary of Liege from the Control of the Secu- lar Theologians. This memoir, written in I^atin, offers details as curious as piquant. It was translated into French by P. Quesnel, but it did not have the effect that Nave expected. The Jesuits took possession of the seminary, which gave occasion for another article, Deux lettres d'lin ecclesiastique de Liege (ItlitO. 4 to and 12mo) : — Lefondement de la conduite a la rie et a la piele Chre- tienne (Liege, 1705, 12mo). See lloefer, Xovv. hiog. Generate, s. v.
Nave (Lnt. Xavmis), Mathias de, a Belgian the- ologian, was born at Warnant, in llesbaye, aliout 1500. He was received into the University of Donai as doctor of theology, and became in I02(t curate of tlie collegiate cliurch of St. Peter in that town ; some years jifier prel)- endary of the church of Sedin; andhistly. July 13. I<i33, canon of the cathedral of Ti>nrnay, where the cen- sorship of books puljlished in the diocese was intrust- ed t(( him. He itied at Tournay in l(i(i(). His principal works are, A nnotutiows in si/mmie theol<igi(e et sao-ie Scriptures pritcipuas difficultates, item duo serinoms de Sanctis Piatn et Kleutherio, patronis Toniacr-nsiiim (Tournay, 1040, -iui) ■.—J'mlil/alio theologica in fsta
sanctorum (Tournay, 1635, 4to, and Douai, 12mo):
Encomium sancti Josephi, Virginis Deipara sponsi
(Douai, 1627, 12mo; a new edition under this title):
Sponsus Virginis decorutus corona xxxi gemmcnum splendoribus coruscunie (Douai, 1636, V2mo) : — Cute- chesis, sire de sacrumentorum institutione, etc., condones xvi (Douai, 1033, V2mo):—Orutiones trts signi o-ucis et orationis efficacia et D. Thoma Aquinatis laudihus (Douai, 1630, 4to). He was the editor of a work by Michel de Nave, his uncle, entitled Chronicon ajpar'i- tionum et gestorum saticti Michaclis orchangeli (Douai, 1632, 8vo). The latter, born at Warnant, in Hesbaye, in 1.539, died at Tournay Nov. 20, 1020, was succes- sively prebendary aiid ofiicial of Arras, archdeacon and vicar-general of Tournay. His work, extracted largely from Colvenerius and i'antaleon, is filled with senti- ments and details of erudition; but it is written without discrimination. See Hoefer, Kouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.