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Author : Earl Baldwin Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages written by Earl Baldwin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl Baldwin Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758157478
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages written by Earl Baldwin Smith and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069181
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Afterlife of the Roman City written by Hendrik W. Dey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Author : Gunter Bandmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231501722
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning written by Gunter Bandmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.
Author : Earl Baldwin Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages written by Earl Baldwin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An investigation of a group of architectural features, all directly or indirectly related to the city-gate and palace entrance, and the ceremonies which gave the forms so much of their royal and divine significance in the popular imagination."-- page 3.
Author : Charles B. McClendon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300033335
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Abbey of Farfa written by Charles B. McClendon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Benedictine abbey of Farfa was one of the most important monastic centers of medieval Europe. As an imperial establishment, patronize and protected by Charlemagne and his successors yet situated only thirty miles northeast of Rome, Farfa was often found at the center of events involving the papacy and the Empire. While its historical importance has long been recognized, the physical remains of the abbey have received little attention until now. This book by Charles B. McClendon is unique in combining an assessment of Farfa's place in the overall development of medieval architecture with an analysis of the abbey's historical role. McClendon has based his study on a detailed architectural survey of the medieval abbey church and on the extensive excavations of the site carried out under his co-direction between 1978 and 1983. By examining archaeological, architectural, and historical sources, McClendon reconstructs the various phases in the growth of the monastic layout from late antiquity to the early Renaissance, analyzes the circumstances under which they were built, and relates his findings to the architectural currents of the day. He shows, for example, that the ninth-century additions to the abbey church by Abbot Sichardus reflect the Carolingian revival of the plan of Old St. Peter's in Rome; that the design of other features points to influence from north of the Alps; that the east end of the abbey church, extensively rebuilt in the mid-eleventh century, should be considered a major monument of the early Romanesque period. Demonstrating that each phase of the architectural history of Farfa reflects the latest developments not only in Italy but also in the north, McClendon makes clear that Farfa provides a valuable understanding of the dynamic forces that helped shape the architecture of the early Middle Ages. "Scholarship at its best. . . . This volume will be the standard reference for many years to come."--Richard Krautheimer, New York University
Author : Maria Fabricius Hansen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771248986
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Spolia Churches of Rome written by Maria Fabricius Hansen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A particularly robust approach to Rome's antique past was taken in the Middle Ages, spanning from the Late Antiquity in the fourth century, until roughly the thirteenth century AD. The Spolia Churches of Rome looks at how the church-builders treated the architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of prefabricated material and examines the cultural, economic and political structure of the church and how this influenced the building's design. It is this trend of putting old buildings to new uses which presents an array of different forms of architecture and design within modern day Rome. This book is both an introduction to the spolia churches of medieval Rome, and a guide to eleven selected churches.
Author : Allan Doig
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754652724
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Liturgy and Architecture from the Early Church to the Middle Ages written by Allan Doig and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: 'The Earliest Christian Worship and Its Setting', 'Late Antiquity in the West and the Gallican Rite', 'Carolingian Architecture and Liturgical Reform' and 'Monasticism, Pilgrimage and the Romanesque'.
Author : Richard Brilliant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317063791
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Reuse Value written by Richard Brilliant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specific character in relation to other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the ethical issues raised by spoliation and their implications for the evaluation and interpretation of new work made with spolia. The contemporary fascination with spolia is part of a larger cultural preoccupation with reuse, recycling, appropriation and re-presentation in the Western world. All of these practices speak to a desire to make use of pre-existing artifacts (objects, images, expressions) for contemporary purposes. Several essays in this volume focus on the distinction between spolia and other forms of reused objects. While some authors prefer to elide such distinctions, others insist that spolia entail some form of taking, often violent, and a diminution of the source from which they are removed. The book opens with an essay by the scholar most responsible for the popularity of spolia studies in the later twentieth century, Arnold Esch, whose seminal article 'Spolien' was published in 1969. Subsequent essays treat late Roman antiquity, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Middle Ages, medieval and modern attitudes to spolia in Southern Asia, the Italian Renaissance, the European Enlightenment, modern America, and contemporary architecture and visual culture.
Author : Frederick B. Artz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630812X
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Mind of the Middle Ages written by Frederick B. Artz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of the age of faith. Artz on the arts, as on philosophy, politics and other aspects of culture, makes lively and informative reading."—The Washington Post
Author : John Onians
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221952
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Bearers of Meaning written by John Onians and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,000 years from their first appearance in ancient Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the orders--the columns and capitals known as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite--were made to serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue.
Author : Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784910651
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Egyptian Cultural Identity in the Architecture of Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 325) written by Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the relationship between architectural form and different layers of identity assertion in Roman Egypt. It stresses the sophistication of the concept of identity, and the complex yet close association between architecture and identity.
Author : Leland M. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997521X
Total Pages : 1193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Understanding Architecture written by Leland M. Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 1193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Author : Anna Frajlich
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204799
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age written by Anna Frajlich and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poets throughout the world Rome was the world. This is particularly true for Russian poets, owing to the anagrammatical relation of the words Rome and mir (Rome and world). The legacy of ancient Rome has always constituted an important component of the Russian cultural consciousness. The revitalization of classical scholarship in nineteenth-century Russia and new approaches to antiquity prompted many of the Russian Symbolists to seek their inspiration in ancient Rome. Vladimir Solovyov, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Valery Bryusov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maksimilian Voloshin, Vasily Komarovsky, and Mikhail Kuzmin all made significant contributions to what is often referred to as the “Roman text.”The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age analyzes the forms involved in creating the Roman image and explores its functionality within the given poetic system. In addition to the formal analysis, the background and the stimulus leading up to the composition of a particular poem are explored, as well as allusions to legends, myths and Rome’s geography and architecture. Moreover, this study considers the function of the Roman text in Russian Symbolist poetics and the works of the individual poets. Finally, the relation between the Roman and Petersburg texts of Russian literature is explored, since many of the Russian Symbolist poets found in Rome a perfect metaphor for their studies of the city and “urban” poetry.
Author : David Watkin
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856694599
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Architecture written by David Watkin and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD on architectural practice at the beginning of the 21st century.
Author : Edmund Thomas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191558435
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Monumentality and the Roman Empire written by Edmund Thomas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This extensively illustrated book, the first full-length study of the concept of monumentality in Classical Antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how significant it was for the Romans themselves in moulding their individual or collective aspirations and identities. Although no single word existed in antiquity for the qualities that modern authors regard as making up that term, its Latin derivation - from monumentum, 'a monument' - attests plainly to the presence of the concept in the mentalities of ancient Romans, and the development of that notion through the Roman era laid the foundation for the classical ideal of monumentality, which reached a height in early modern Europe. This book is also the first full-length study of architecture in the Antonine Age - when it is generally agreed the Roman Empire was at its height. By exploring the public architecture of Roman Italy and both Western and Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the benefactors who funded such buildings, the architects who designed them, and the public who used and experienced them, Edmund Thomas analyses the reasons why Roman builders sought to construct monumental buildings and uncovers the close link between architectural monumentality and the identity and ideology of the Roman Empire itself.
Author : Gillian B. Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000603326
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Sculpted Thresholds and the Liturgy of Transformation in Medieval Lombardy written by Gillian B. Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted “gateways” of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy. Gillian B. Elliott examines the liturgical connection between the ciborium over the altar (the most sacred threshold inside the church), and the sculpted portals that appeared on church exteriors in medieval Lombardy. In cities such as Milan, Civate, Como, and Pavia, the liturgy of Saint Ambrose was practiced as an alternative to the Roman liturgy and the churches were constructed to respond to the needs of Ambrosian liturgy. Not only do the Romanesque churches in these places correspond stylistically and iconographically, but they were also linked politically in an era of intense struggle for ultimate regional authority. The book considers liturgical and artistic links between interior church furnishings and exterior church sculptural programs, and also applies new spatial methodologies to the interior and exterior of churches in Lombardy. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, architectural history, and religious studies.
