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Architecture, Byzantine --- Gračanica (Church : Kosovo, Serbia)

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The scope of this book', to quot "The time literary supplement", "is greater than that of any other work on the subject". 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 byzantin architecture, from Rome (including the early St Peter's) 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. For this fourth edition, Professor Krautheimer, with a colleague, Professor Ćurćić of Princeton University, has undertaken as thorough a revision as for the previous ones, and the book, with the help of some 700 information-packed footnotes and over 400 illustrations, has been brought right up pto date with the latest research.

72.033.1 --- 72.033.2 --- 72.03 --- Byzantium --- Constantinopel --- Oost-Romeinse keizerrijk --- Vroegchristelijke architectuur --- Byzantijnse architectuur --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Architecture paléochrétienne --- Architecture byzantine

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This book is the first of its kind to discuss the history of the Balkan Peninsula from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman era by focusing on architecture as its principal gauge. In doing so, it transcends various established conventions in scholarship to present the architectural heritage in the Balkans in a manner that is accessible and comprehensible. Slobodan Curcic challenges notions derived from ̀modern' national historiographies that view architectural heritage within the confines of modern political boundaries as ǹational' heritage with privileged ǹational' status and relevance, that frame historical ̀periods' by relying on western art-historical conventions and that perceive historical events and developments as major determinants of cultural history. Throughout the book architecture is viewed as a function of distinctive needs (social, political, religious), distinctive means (economic, technical know-how, material availability) and distinctive goals (aesthetic, propagandistic, protective). As a result, the book covers the full range of architectural enterprises, from simple residential buildings, to public monumental structures; from fortifications, to utilitarian buildings (cisterns, bridges, etc). The urban context of architecture is emphasized, while its role in rural settings is used as a gauge of other distinctive phenomena. Illustrated with over nine hundred photographs and drawings, most of them specially commissioned, the book presents a generally unknown body of material in a distinctive and unprecedented manner. --Book Jacket.

Architecture --- 72(497) --- Architectuur ; Balkan ; geschiedenis ; 4de tot 16de eeuw --- Architectuur ; Balkanstaten --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Balkan Peninsula --- Balkans --- History --- Histoire --- Architecture, Primitive

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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.

Architecture, Byzantine. --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural. --- Architecture byzantine --- Architecture, Byzantine --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Décoration et ornement architecturaux --- Church architecture, Byzantine --- Church decoration and ornament, Byzantine --- Art, Byzantine

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The centuries-long economic and military decline of the Byznatine Empire, which culminated in its political disappearance as a state in 1459, was, paradoxically, accompanied by high levels of cultural achievement. Aimed at broadening our understanding of the final phase of the empire, this collection explores how Byzantine ideological, spiritual, and artistic traditions transcending the economic and political realities of the time. The papers, delivered at an interdisciplinary colloquium held in May 1989 at Princeton University, deal with hagiographic, monastic, literary, architectural, and artistic questions, as well as the general cultural and social issues, of this fascinating period.Along with the editors, the contributors are Smilkjka Gabelic, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Angela Hero, Robert Ousterhout, Marcus Rautman, Steven Reinert, Alice Mary Talbot, SPeros Vryonis, and John J. Yiannias.Slobodan Curcic is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Doula Mouriki teaches at the Technical University of Athens.Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Art, Byzantine --- Byzantine Empire --- Civilization