TY - BOOK AU - Schibille,Nadine TI - Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine aesthetic experience SN - 9781472437587 (hbk.) AV - NA5870.A9 S34 2014 U1 - 726.60949618 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Farnham Surrey, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Ayasofya Müzesi KW - Aesthetics, Byzantine KW - Architecture KW - Aesthetics N1 - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-273) and index; Viewing Hagia Sophia through Sixth-Century Eyes -- Animation and Illumination of Hagia Sophia's Architectural Structure -- Clad in a Luminous Membrane: the Interior Decoration of Hagia Sophia -- Building a House of Wisdom - a Question of Meaning -- Hagia Sophia and the Concept of Beauty in the Sixth Century -- The Function of Art in the Sixth Century -- Hagia Sophia - Embodiment of an Early Byzantine Aesthetics N2 - Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE). This book examines the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty and the meaning of art in early Byzantium. Byzantine aesthetic thought is re-evaluated against late antique Neoplatonism and the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius that offer fundamental paradigms for the late antique attitude towards art and beauty UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JLub_ZCOwF633u9MEQnyxJIL_AIeBxFH/view?usp=sharing ER -