Research Catalog

Title

Approaches to Byzantine architecture and its decoration : studies in honor of Slobodan Ćurčić / edited by Mark J. Johnson, Robert Ousterhout, and Amy Papalexandrou.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012], ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ćurčić, Slobodan.
• Johnson, Mark Joseph.
• Ousterhout, Robert G.
• Papalexandrou, Amy, 1963-

Description

xix, 309 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Studies in honor of Slobodan Ćurčić

Subject

• Architecture, Byzantine
• Decoration and ornament, Architectural

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A tribute to Slobodan Ćurčić, scholar and friend / Svetlana Popović -- Introduction: Approaches to Byzantine architecture and the contribution of Slobodan Ćurčić / Mark J. Johnson, Robert Ousterhout, and Amy Papalexandrou -- Polis/Arsinoë in late antiquity : a Cypriot town and its sacred sites / Amy Papalexandrou -- The syntax of spolia in Byzantine Thessalonike / Ludovico V. Geymonat -- Church building and miracles in Norman Italy : texts and topoi / Mark J. Johnson -- Armenia and the borders of medieval art / Christina Maranci -- Change in Byzantine architecture / Marina Mihaljević -- Prolegomena for a study of royal entrances in Byzantine churches : the case of Marko's monastery / Ida Sinkević -- The rose window : a feature of Byzantine architecture? / Jelena Trkulja -- Between the mountain and the lake : tower, folklore, and the monastery at Agios Vasileios near Thessalonike / Nikolas Bakirtzis -- Life in the Late Byzantine tower : examples from northern Greece / Jelena Bogdanović -- Imperial and aristocratic funerary panel portraits in the Middle and Late Byzantine periods / Katherine Marsengill -- Man or metaphor? Manuel Panselinos and the Protation frescoes / Matthew J. Milliner -- Two Byzantine churches of Silivri/Selymbria / Robert Ousterhout -- Interpreting medieval architecture through renovations : the roof of the old basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome / Nicola Camerlenghi -- The edifices of the new Justinian : Catherine the Great regaining Byzantium / Asen Kirin.

ISBN

• 9781409427407 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1409427404 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2011017015
• 40020504787

OCLC

• ocn715288354
• 715288354
• SCSB-14612537

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries