Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration
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Above Ground
apostles
architectural historiography
Armenian Architecture
athos
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Balkan ecclesiastical art
Byzantine architectural research methods
Byzantine Architecture
Byzantine Churches
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church
Church Of The Holy Apostles
curcic
Della
Die Baukunst
Early Christian Basilicas
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Gregory The Great
Hilandar
Hilandar Monastery
holy
Holy Mountain
King Gustav III
late
Late Byzantine
Late Byzantine Period
Leo III
Main Apse
medieval
medieval church design
mount
Nea Moni
Panel Portrait
period
post-Constantinople influence
Queen Struts
Roof Restorations
Rose Window
Round Windows
sacred landscape studies
San Paolo
slobodan
Slobodan Curcic
spolia reuse analysis
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- ISBN 9781409427407
- Weight: 839g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Mark J. Johnson is professor of medieval art and architectural history at Brigham Young University, USA; Robert Ousterhout is professor and graduate chair in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, USA; Amy Papalexandrou is an independent scholar and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
