Early Christian and Byzantine ArchitectureBy 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
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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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Aegean aisles and galleries altar ambulatory Apostles apse arcades arches architects Armenia Asia Minor atrium Balkans baptistery barrel-vaulted basilica brick built Bulgaria Byzantine architecture Camii capitals cathedral centre bay chancel chapels Chapter church building church plans clerestory clergy colonnaded columns congregation Constan Constantine's Constantinian Constantinople cross arms cross-domed decoration Deichmann diaconicon dome drum Dyggve Early Christian east eleventh century Emperor Empire enveloped esonarthex excavated Exterior facade Fenari Isa fifth flanked forechoir fourth century friezes Greece hall Hosios Lukas ibid idem Imperial Interior Justinian Justinian's Krautheimer late linked marble martyria martyrium masonry Middle Byzantine Milan monastery mosaic narthex nave nave and aisles niches ninth Note octagon Ohrid palace passim piers possibly provinces Qasr Ibn Wardan quincunx Ravenna reconstruction Roman Rome Salonica sixth century Sophia structure surmounted survived Syria tenth century tetraconch tinople tion transept triconch twelfth century vaulted walls
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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.

