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The book consists of the author's various pilgrimages to Orthodox Christian sites in Greece, Constantinople, and Jerusalem and includes historical and theological backgrounds of the sites visited.
Author : Theodore G. Karakostas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 9781480179806
The book consists of the author's various pilgrimages to Orthodox Christian sites in Greece, Constantinople, and Jerusalem and includes historical and theological backgrounds of the sites visited.
Author : Richard Winston
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1640190686
Hagia Sophia is more than 1,400 years old. It was a Christian Church, then a Muslim mosque, and is now a museum. Here, from National Book Award winner Richard Winston, is the extraordinary story of one of the world's great architectural treasures and its everchanging role in the history of Constantinople.
Author : Nadine Schibille
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1317124146
Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE). This book examines the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty and the meaning of art in early Byzantium. Byzantine aesthetic thought is re-evaluated against late antique Neoplatonism and the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius that offer fundamental paradigms for the late antique attitude towards art and beauty. These metaphysical concepts of aesthetics are ultimately grounded in experiences of sensation and perception, and reflect the ways in which the world and reality were perceived and grasped, signifying the cultural identity of early Byzantium. There are different types of aesthetic data, those present in the aesthetic object and those found in aesthetic responses to the object. This study looks at the aesthetic data embodied in the sixth-century architectural structure and interior decoration of Hagia Sophia as well as in literary responses (ekphrasis) to the building. The purpose of the Byzantine ekphrasis was to convey by verbal means the same effects that the artefact itself would have caused. A literary analysis of these rhetorical descriptions recaptures the Byzantine perception and expectations, and at the same time reveals the cognitive processes triggered by the Great Church. The central aesthetic feature that emerges from sixth-century ekphraseis of Hagia Sophia is that of light. Light is described as the decisive element in the experience of the sacred space and light is simultaneously associated with the notion of wisdom. It is argued that the concepts of light and wisdom are interwoven programmatic elements that underlie the unique architecture and non-figurative decoration of Hagia Sophia. A similar concern for the phenomenon of light and its epistemological dimension is reflected in other contemporary monuments, testifying to the pervasiveness of these aesthetic values in early Byzantium.
Author : Bissera V. Pentcheva
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Byzantine chants
ISBN : 9780271077260
Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics, explores the Byzantine paradigm of animation.
Author : Nora Fisher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813589126
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Author : İlhan Akşit
Publisher :
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2007
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Author : Bissera V
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release :
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271035846
"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1108870872
Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.
Author : Patrick Balfour Baron Kinross
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Greece
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9004523006
Compensating a four-decades shortfall, this collective volume is the first reader in Byzantine spatial studies. It offers a diversity of topics and scientific approaches, articulated by up-to-date interdisciplinary dialogue, and reflects on the future challenges of Byzantine spatial studies.