Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience

ISBN-13: 9780367600358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str.

Nadine Schibille

Opis

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 Neoplato

Recenzje

"In Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience, Nadine Schibille brings special skills to bear in an attempt to recapture the impact of this enormous building on sixth-century Christians. Schibille draws with great skill on contemporary Byzantine writings."-Peter Brown, The New York Review

Spis treści

Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience

O autorze

Dr Nadine Schibille is a Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sussex, UK.