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Chargement... The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Buildingpar W. R. Lethaby
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I am planning to go to Istanbul this year (fingers crossed) and wanted information on Hagia Sofia. This book is DENSE and detailed, but for someone like me who loves architecture and history, was very informative. Not only does it give (albeat dated) descriptions of the church, but also the materials, services, and even some of the politics happening at the time. It details all of the decorations, past and present (to the writing of the book) and quotes mounds of sources. It has made me even more eager to go, and wanting to spend even more time inside this beautiful church, uh museaum, er mosque. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Sancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the world's surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is no ruin, nor does it belong to a past world of constructive ideas although it precedes by seven hundred years the fourth culmination of the building art in Chartres, Amiens, or Bourges, and thus must ever stand as the Supreme monument of the Christian cycle. The attempt here is some disentanglement of the history of the Church and an analysis of its design and construction; on the one hand, we have been led a step or two into the labyrinth of Constantinopolian topography, on the other, we have thought that the great Church offers the best point of view for the observation of the Byzantine theory of building. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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