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Author : Otto Demus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantine Mosaic Decoration written by Otto Demus and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Byzantine Mosaic Decoration. Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otto Demus
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Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantium Mosaic Decoration written by Otto Demus and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otto Demus
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Total Pages : 97 pages
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Download or read book Byzantine mosaic decoration : aspects of momumental art in Byzantium written by Otto Demus and published by . This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904672
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Medieval Practices of Space written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world.
Author : Carolyn L. Connor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190457635
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Saints and Spectacle written by Carolyn L. Connor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration. This complex and colorful system of images covers the walls and vaults of churches with figures and compositions seen against a dazzling gold ground. The surviving eleventh-century churches with their wall and vault mosaics largely intact, Hosios Loukas, Nea Moni and Daphni in Greece, pose the challenge of how, when and where this complex and gloriously conceived system was created. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Connor explores the urban culture and context of church-building in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, during the century following the end of Iconoclasm, of around 843 to 950. The application of an innovative frame of reference, through ritual studies, helps recreate the likely scenario in which the medium of mosaics attained its highest potential, in the mosaiced Byzantine church. For mosaics were enlisted to convey a religious and political message that was too nuanced to be expressed in any other way. At a time of revival of learning and the arts, and development of ceremonial practices, the Byzantine emperor and patriarch were united in creating a solution to the problem of consolidating the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Empire. It was through promoting a vision of the unchallengeable authority residing in God and his earthly representative, the emperor. The beliefs and processional practices affirming the protective role of the saints in which the entire city participated, were critical to the reception of this vision by the populace as well as the court. Mosaics were a luxury medium that was ideally situated aesthetically to convey a message at a particularly important historical moment--a brilliant solution to a problem that was to subtly unite an empire for centuries to come. Supported by a wealth of testimony from literary sources, Saints and Spectacle brings the Middle Byzantine church to life as the witness to a compelling and fascinating drama.
Author : Nano Chatzidakis
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantine Mosaics written by Nano Chatzidakis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the luxury of their materials, technical precision, beauty, and aesthetic grandeur, Byzantine mosaics, particularly the wall mosaics, constitute the most impressive manifestation of Byzantine monumental painting. Highly expensive and laborious works of art, they were commissioned and dedicated by emperors, dignitaries, state officials and members of the Church hierarchy, in order to enhance the dwellings of Divinity, important churches and monasteries; and at the same time to manifest the power, glory and legendary wealth of His earthly representatives. A brilliant selection of mosaics from twenty-five famous monuments are presented here by Nano Chatzidakis, Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina. In historical and stylistic terms, they cover the development of mosaic art from the 5th to the 14th century, which is described and analysed efficiently by the author in the first part of the volume. The unique pictorial character and special artistic importance of each individual mosaic ensemble presented in this volume is superbly illustrated and emerges strikingly through a full discussion of the stylistic and aesthetic physiognomy of the mosaics it comprises, and a brief reference to the monument it adorns.
Author : Bissera Pentcheva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351786881
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual written by Bissera Pentcheva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital technology can play in re-creating aspects of the sensually rich performance of the divine word. Engaging the material fabric of the buildings in relationship to the liturgical ritual, the book studies the structure of the rite, revealing the important role chant plays in it, and confronts both the acoustics of the physical spaces and the hermeneutic system of reception of the religious services. By then drawing on audio software modelling tools in order to reproduce some of the visual and aural aspects of these multi-sensory public rituals, it inaugurates a synthetic approach to the study of the premodern sacred space, which bridges humanities with exact sciences. The result is a rich contribution to the growing discipline of sound studies and an innovative convergence of the medieval and the digital.
Author : H.R. Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000921271
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Viking Road to Byzantium written by H.R. Ellis Davidson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such unexpected places as a Romanian chalk quarry near the Black Sea, among the carved stones of ancient Thrace and in Constantinople itself, the Miklagard of northern literature.
Author : Sabine Planka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666912263
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam written by Sabine Planka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director’s films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and thus have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life.
