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Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture

Autor Robert G. Ousterhout
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2019
Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural marvels of Western Europes Middle Ages. In this landmark survey, distinguished art historian Robert Ousterhout introduces readers to the rich and diverse architectural traditions of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean.The focus of the book is the Byzantine (or East Roman) Empire (324-1453 CE), with its capital in Constantinople, although the framework expands chronologically to include the foundations of Christian architecture in Late Antiquity and the legacy of Byzantine culture after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Geographically broad as well, this study includes architectural developments in areas of Italy, the Caucasus, the Near East, the Balkans, and Russia, as well as related developments in early Islamic architecture. Alternating chapters that address chronological or regionally-based developments with thematic studies that focus on the larger cultural concerns, the book presents the architectural developments in a way that makes them accessible, interesting, and intellectually stimulating. In doing so, it also explains why medieval architecture in the East followed such a different trajectory from that of the West.Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, maps, and line drawings, Eastern Medieval Architecture will establish Byzantine traditions to be as significant and admirable as those more familiar examples in Western Europe, and serve as an invaluable resource for anyone interested in architectural history, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190272739
ISBN-10: 0190272732
Pagini: 816
Ilustrații: 445 color illus., 368 b/w illus., 6 maps
Dimensiuni: 259 x 208 x 46 mm
Greutate: 2.47 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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It is without doubt destined to be the standard reference book on Byzantine architecture for the future.
An engaging exploration of the monuments of the Christian East, as well as the interaction between architecture and the many cultures and intellectual, political, and economic currents that help shape it. Augmented by recommendations for further reading and an extensive bibliography, Eastern Medieval Architecture offers the reader a starting point for study of these structures, as well as a window into an impressive career.... Accessible and affordable, Robert Ousterhout's Eastern Medieval Architecture is a must-have for any teacher or student of architecture, Byzantium, or of the medieval.
It is beautifully written, and filled with the most carefully chosen photographs of structures and details, rendered in glorious colour, and scores of drawings by the author's own hand. If every generation gets the history of Byzantine architecture that it deserves, then ours is very fortunate indeed!
Eastern Medieval Architecture offers a fresh and inviting introduction to the vibrant architectural traditions of the Byzantine Empire and its neighbors. In this learned yet eminently readable volume, Ousterhout masterfully distills a vast amount of specialized research on more than a millennium of architectural production, both sacred and secular. His synthesis of canonical monuments and lesser-known buildings engagingly situates architecture within broader histories of empire, sacred space, craft production, and cultural interaction.
This is the most consequential study of its kind to appear in many years. It will change the way we study and teach Byzantine architecture.
In this much-needed book, Robert Ousterhout provides an up-to-date introduction to the architecture of Byzantium and its neighbors. Diverse and generous in its scope and approach, while at the same time presenting a coherent narrative of a fascinating and complex subject, it will long remain the pre-eminent survey of the field for specialists and non-specialists alike.
A masterful, concise, and eminently readable synthesis of the architectural -- and thus also a key aspect of the cultural -- history of the medieval eastern Roman world and its neighbors. Drawing on his own ground-breaking research, on the original sources (written, material-cultural, and archaeological), and informed by an intimate knowledge of the vast modern literature in the field, Robert Ousterhout has produced an invaluable survey that will undoubtedly be the basic 'go-to' reference work for the subject for many years to come.

Notă biografică

Robert G. Ousterhout is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include Visualizing Community: Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia and Master Builders of Byzantium.