The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul

The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul
Author: Robert G. Ousterhout
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1987
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780884021650

The Kariye Camii remains one of the most important and best-known monuments of the Byzantine world. Rebuilt and decorated in the early 14th century by statesman-scholar Theodore Metochites, the monument played a key role in the development of Late Byzantine art. Ousterhout presents a structural history and architectural analysis of this building.

Restoring Byzantium

Restoring Byzantium
Author: Dimitŭr Simeonov Angelov
Publisher: Wallach Art Gallery
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

With the exception of Hagia Sophia, no Byzantine monument in the modern city of Istanbul can rival the former church of the monastery of the chora (Kariye Camii). This catalogue brings together scholars who have studied aspects of the Kariye Camii's art, architecture, and history.

A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia
Author: Robert G. Ousterhout
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780884023104

Based on four seasons of fieldwork, this book presents the results of the first systematic site survey of a region rich in material remains. From architecture to fresco painting, Cappadocia represents a previously untapped resource for the study of material culture and the settings of daily life within the Byzantine Empire.

Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century

Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004679804

With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building’s history, including the status of its mosaics and paintings as major works of Palaiologan culture, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The Art of the Kariye Camii

The Art of the Kariye Camii
Author: Robert G. Ousterhout
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Art, Byzantine
ISBN:

"A touchstone of Byzantine artistic achievement, the church now known as the Kariye Camii in Istanbul preserves impressive cycles of mosaic and fresco, for which it is justifiably famous. Once the heart of the Chora Monastery, the building was reconstructed around 1316-21, under the patronage of the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites. -- Besides its painting and mosaic decoration, the building itself is well-preserved. Enveloped by narthexes, a burial chapel and other additions, and topped by an array of domes, the Kariye Camii stands at the forefront of Late Byzantine architectural developments. -- This illustrated guide chronicles the building's history and provides a scene-by-scene guide to its spectacular decoration. As the author insists, the art of the Kariye Camii "is as sophisticated and erudite as a contemporary work of Byzantine literature, structured like a vast epic poem."

Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration

Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration
Author: Mark J. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351957643

The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture and its decoration, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. The variety is also a reflection of Professor Curcic’s wide interests, which he shares with his students. These include the analysis of recent archaeological discoveries; recovery of lost monuments through archival research and onsite examination of material remains; reconsidering traditional typological approaches often ignored in current scholarship; fresh interpretations of architectural features and designs; contextualization of monuments within the landscape; tracing historiographic trends; and mining neglected written sources for motives of patronage. The papers also range broadly in terms of chronology and geography, from the Early Christian through the post-Byzantine period and from Italy to Armenia. Three papers examine Early Christian monuments, and of these two expand the inquiry into their architectural afterlives. Others discuss later monuments in Byzantine territory and monuments in territories related to Byzantium such as Serbia, Armenia, and Norman Italy. No Orthodox church being complete without interior decoration, two papers discuss issues connected to frescoes in late medieval Balkan churches. Finally, one study investigates the continued influence of Byzantine palace architecture long after the fall of Constantinople.

Architecture of the Sacred

Architecture of the Sacred
Author: Bonna D. Wescoat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 110737829X

In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.

The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople

The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
Author: Elena N. Boeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1107197279

Biography of the medieval Mediterranean's most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.

Eastern Medieval Architecture

Eastern Medieval Architecture
Author: Robert G. Ousterhout
Publisher:
Total Pages: 810
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0190272732

The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book, including the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and Russia, as well as parallel developments in Crusader and early Islamic architecture.