Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine aesthetic experience [electronic resource] / Nadine Schibille.
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TextPublisher: Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]Description: xiii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781472437587 (hbk.)
- 726.60949618 23
- NA5870.A9 S34 2014
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| E-Resources | Main Library E-Resources | 726.60949618 Sch329 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | E002755 |
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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.
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.
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