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Item Number: 114102
Title: Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and Its Decoration : Studies in Honor of Slobodan Curcic
Author: Johnson, Mark J. ; Robert Ousterhout ; Amy Papalexandrou (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409427407
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 309pp. illus. Contents: Introduction: approaches to Byzantine architecture and the contribution of Slobodan Curcic, Mark J. Johnson, Robert Oosterhout and Amy Papalexandrou; A tribute to Slobodan Curcic, scholar and friend, Svetlana Popovic; Part I The Meanings of Architecture: Polis/Arsinoë in late antiquity: a Cypriot town and its sacred sites, Amy Papalexandrou; The syntax of spolia in Byzantine Thessalonike, Ludovico V. Geymonat; Church building and miracles in Norman Italy: texts and topoi, Mark V. Johnson; Armenia and the borders of medieval art, Christina Maracini. Part II The Fabric of Buildings: Change in Byzantine architecture, Marina Mihaljevic; Prolegomena for the study of royal entrances in Byzantine churches: the case of Marko's monastery, Ida Sinkevic; The rose window – a feature of Byzantine architecture?, Jelena Trkulja. Part III The Contexts and Contents of Buildings: Between the mountain and the lake: tower, folklore, and monastery at Agios Vasileos near Thessalonike, Nikolas Bakirtzis; Life in a late Byzantine tower: examples from Northern Greece, Jelena Bogdanovic; Imperial and aristocratic funerary panel portraits in the middle and late Byzantine periods, Katherine Marsengill; Man or metaphor? Manuel Panselinos and the Protaton frescoes, Matthew Milliner. Part IV The Afterlife of Buildings: Two Byzantine churches of Silivri/Selymbria, Robert Oosterhout; Interpreting medieval architecture through renovations: the roof of the old basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome, Nicola Camerlenghi; The edifices of the new Justinian: Catherine the Great regaining Byzantium, Asen Kirin.
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