[PDF] Byzantine Architecture eBook

Author : Cyril A. Mango
Publisher :
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture, Byzantine
ISBN :

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Workmen and the patron, and the use of materials and techniques, are recurring themes. City architecture is featured as well as the very distinctive Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture, the most famous example of this being the 6th century masterpiece, Haghia Sophia.

Author : Mark Joseph Johnson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781409427407

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The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. Three papers examine Early Christian monuments, two of which expand the inquiry into their architectural afterlives. Others discuss later monuments in Byzantine territory and monuments in territories related to Byzantium such as Serbia, Armenia, and Norman Italy. No Orthodox Church being complete without interior decoration, two papers discuss issues connected to frescoes in late medieval Balkan churches. Finally, one study investigates the continued influence of Byzantine palace architecture long after the fall of Constantinople.

Author : Ellen C. Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0197572200

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Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry. Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans, Russia, the Near East and north Africa, between the years 330 and 1453. Much of this art was made for religious purposes, created to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as to serve in a royal or domestic context. Discussions in this volume will consider both aspects of this artistic creation, across a wide swath of geography and a long span of time. The volume marries older, object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, to considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, and so on-in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a particularly rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this fascinating and beautiful period of art.

Author : Robert Ousterhout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0190058404

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The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book. Representing the visual residues of a "forgotten" Middle Ages, the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Russia, and the Middle East parallel the more familiar architecture of Western Europe. The book offers an expansive view of the architectural developments of the Byzantine Empire and areas under its cultural influence, as well as the intellectual currents that lie behind their creation. The book alternates chapters that address chronological or regionally-based developments with thematic studies that focus on the larger cultural concerns, as they are expressed in architectural form.

Author : Mark J. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351957643

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The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture and its decoration, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. The variety is also a reflection of Professor Curcic’s wide interests, which he shares with his students. These include the analysis of recent archaeological discoveries; recovery of lost monuments through archival research and onsite examination of material remains; reconsidering traditional typological approaches often ignored in current scholarship; fresh interpretations of architectural features and designs; contextualization of monuments within the landscape; tracing historiographic trends; and mining neglected written sources for motives of patronage. The papers also range broadly in terms of chronology and geography, from the Early Christian through the post-Byzantine period and from Italy to Armenia. Three papers examine Early Christian monuments, and of these two expand the inquiry into their architectural afterlives. Others discuss later monuments in Byzantine territory and monuments in territories related to Byzantium such as Serbia, Armenia, and Norman Italy. No Orthodox church being complete without interior decoration, two papers discuss issues connected to frescoes in late medieval Balkan churches. Finally, one study investigates the continued influence of Byzantine palace architecture long after the fall of Constantinople.

Author : Richard Krautheimer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300052947

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By now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, from Constantinople to Greece and the Balkans, and from Egypt and Jerusalem to the villages and monasteries of Syria, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Mesopotamia.

Author : Tatyana Fedulova
Publisher : Progress Builders
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 137030630X

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Byzantine Architecture is a 6th chapter of the series containing: - Ancient Egypt - Ancient Mesopotamia - Cretan-Mycenaean - Ancient Greece - Ancient Rome - Byzantine architecture - Romanesque - Gothic architecture - The Renaissance - Baroque - Rococo - Classicism - Eclecticism - Modern - Functionalism Brief Guide to the History of Architectural Styles is a full-color illustrated edition of the classic study of the history of architecture. This handbook has been written by Tatyana Fedulova - Russian art critic, lecturer and popularizer of history of Fine Arts, the expert in the History of Art and Religion. It is a "Must Have" book for tourists, students, and architecture and arts enthusiasts. It provides you with the most comprehensive and at the same time brief information of how the architectural styles were developed and flowed through the ages to our time. The author reviewed the most significant structures that represent different styles and cultures of the world from the late 4th millennium BC. Extensively illustrated the guidebook includes photos, plans, scales for world-famous structures such as the Roman Colosseum, the tower of Babel, the Pantheon and many others.

Author : Cyril A. Mango
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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A lavishly illustrated study of the construction materials and techniques and the significant architectural achievements of the Byzantine Empire.