Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

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Yale University Press, 1992 - 553 pages
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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 Byzantine architecture, from Rome 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.
 

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Table des matières

Preface
11
Prefaces to the Fourth Edition
17
Christian Building Prior to Constantine
23
The Fourth Century
39
The Fifth Century
93
The Inland Countries
135
The Latin West
167
Early Byzantine Building
201
Church Building after Justinian
283
The Borderlands
301
Middle Byzantine Architecture from
331
17 Development and Regional Styles of Middle Byzantine Architecture
354
The End of Byzantine Architecture
413
List of Principal Abbreviations
451
Glossary
517
Selected Bibliography
523

Standard Building in the Age of Justinian
238
The Architecture of the Age of Justinian in the Provinces
258
Index
537
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Page 225 - Hamadani, who flourished towards the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century...
Page 517 - ... (cross-inscribed). See Quincunx. Cross transept. See Transept. Crypt. In a church, a chamber or vault beneath the main floor, not necessarily underground, usually containing graves or relics. Cube capital. A capital resulting from the interpenetration of a cube placed over a hemispherical form. Diaconicon. A room attached to or enclosed in the church; in Early Christian times, utilized for the reception of the congregation's offerings and serving as archive, vestry, and library; later used only...
Page 518 - France the term for the open space in front of and around cathedrals and churches; probably a corruption ofparadisus, see PARADISE. 2. In England a term wrongly applied to a room over a church porch. PASTOPHORY. A room in an Early Christian or Byzantine church serving as a DIACONICON or PROTHESIS; as a rule, flanking the apse of the church. PATERA. A small, flat, circular or oval ornament in classical architecture, often decorated with ACANTHUS leaves or rose petals. See figure 67.
Page 518 - MARTYRIUM. A church or other building erected over a site which bears witness to the Christian faith, either by referring to an event in Christ's life or Passion, or by sheltering the grave of a martyr, a witness by virtue of having shed his blood.
Page 519 - In Byzantine architecture, a covered hall, its roof supported by one or more rows of columns parallel to the rear wall; in Latin, porticus.
Page 451 - WM Ramsay and GL Bell, The Thousand and One Churches. London, 1909 E.
Page 518 - Emperor, whether in a palace or church. Naos. In modern Greek, a church; architecturally and liturgically, the core and sanctuary of a Byzantine centrally-planned church, ie the parts reserved for the performance of the liturgy. Narthex.
Page 519 - ... constructed over the circumscribed circle is continued from the pendentives to its apex, the result is a pendentive dome. Pendentive dome. See Pendentive. Pilaster. An engaged or semi-detached pier. Presbyter. Literally, Elder; in the Early Christian church, a cleric exercising administrative and priestly functions; also, a parish priest. Propylaeum. The entrance-gate building of a sacred precinct, whether church or Imperial palace. Prothesis. The room attached to or enclosed in the church and...
Page 45 - A propylaeum, a monumental colonnade, faced east towards the street, '. . . great and raised aloft, turning the gaze even of strangers to the faith towards the first entrance.
Page 103 - The government- run marble quarries on the near-by Proconnesian islands in the Sea of Marmara and the brick kilns furnished materials, and the continuous building activity provided experienced teams of masons, self-perpetuating for centuries.

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À propos de l'auteur (1992)

Slobodan ur i is Associate Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral dissertation on Gra anica, written for the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, was awarded the 1977 prize from the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The book has also received a grant from The Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the College Art Association of America.

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