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Sts Sergius and Bacchus Constantinople C 52535 Art History

Studies on Constantinople

Studies on Constantinople

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This volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well every bit up-dates to the studies reprinted. Many of the articles deal with the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the Metropolis's beingness - for case, the columns of Constantine and Justinian, the Mausoleum of the Holy Apostles and the churches of St Sophia, St John of Studius, and Sts Sergius and Bacchus - structures which provided the basic monumental framework around which Constantinople developed and its life was lived. In his reconstruction of these monuments and their history, Cyril Mango demonstrates how much can be achieved by combining the information gained from meticulous examination of the written sources, whether contemporary or from post-medieval travellers, with that provided by the surviving buildings themselves and the remains that accept been excavated. Ce volume, voue A fifty'histoire, aux monuments et A la topographie de Constantinople la Byzantine, comprend deux etudes redigees pour l'occasion, ainsi qu'une mise A jour des travaux qui y sont re-publies. Bon nombre des etudes traitent plus particulierement des constructions imperiales datant des premiers siecles d'existence de la cite - tels, les colonnes de Constantin et de Justinien, la Mausole des Saints ApAtres et les eglises de Ste Sophie, St Jean de Studius, ou de Sts Serge et Bacchus; un ensemble de structures qui apporterent la base monumentale autour de laquelle Constantinople southward'est developpee et a vecu. Au travers de cette reconstruction des monuments et de leur histoire, Cyril Mango demontre combien peut Atre atteint en combinant l'information acquise A partir d'un examen meticuleux des sources ecrites - que celles-ci soient contemporaines ou proviennent des voyageurs post-medievaux - A celle que l'on peut tirer des bActiments-mAmes qui ont survecu, ainsi que des restes qui ete re
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Production details

  • Hardback | 288 pages
  • 184.15 10 260.35 x 25.4mm | 771g
  • Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Variorum
  • Oxford, United Kingdom
  • English
  • New edition
  • New edition
  • Includes fifty b&w illustrations
  • 0860783723
  • 9780860783725

Tabular array of contents

Contents: The evolution of Constantinople equally an urban centre; Constantinopolitana; Constantine's column; Constantine's porphyry column and the chapel of St Constantine; Constantine's mausoleum and the translation of relics (with addendum); Three regal Byzantine sarcophagi discovered in 1750; A newly-discovered Byzantine regal sarcophagus; The Fourteenth Region of Constantinople; Epigrammes honorifiques, statues et portraits A Byzance; The columns of Justinian and his successors; Justinian'due south equestrian statue; The appointment of the Studius basilica at Istanbul; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus at Constantinople and the alleged tradition of octagonal palatine churches; The church building of Sts Sergius and Bacchus once once again; On the history of the templon and the martyrion of St Artemios at Constantinople; A 12th-century clarification of St Sophia; The conciliar edict of 1166; A Russian graffito in St Sophia, Constantinople; A note on Panagia Kamariotissa and some imperial foundations of the 10th and 11th centuries at Constantinople; The date of the Anonymous Russian Description of Constantinople; The piece of work of M.I. Nomidis in the Vefa Kilise Camii, Istanbul (1937-38); Addenda; Alphabetize.
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Cyril Mango, Emeritus, University of Oxford, UK
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