Main entry:

Bassett, Sarah, 1954- author.

Title & Author:

The urban image of late antique Constantinople / Sarah Bassett, Wayne State University.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
©2004

Description:

xxi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The shape of the city -- Creating the collection -- The Constantinian collections -- Theodosian Constantinople -- The Lausos collection -- Justinian and antiquity -- The catalogue -- Amastrianon -- Artopoleion -- Augusteion -- Augusteion senate -- Basilika -- Baths of Constantine -- Baths of Zeuxippos -- Chalke gate -- Forum of Arkadios -- Forum of Constantine -- Forum of Theodosios/Forum Tauri -- Golden gate -- Hippodrome -- Lausos collection -- Milion -- Palace of Marina -- Philadelphia -- Strategeion -- Unspecified location.

Summary:

Between its foundation in the 4th century & its final fall to the Turks in the 15th, Constantinople accumulated an unrivaled collection of antiquities in the city's public spaces. This text attempts to reconstruct the collection & to explore how ancient sculpture was understood by Byzantine Greeks.

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ISBN:

052182723X
9780521827232
9780521030847
0521030846

Subject:

Plastik
Art 2008
Sculpture, Classical.
Sculpture Turkey Istanbul.
Public spaces Turkey Istanbul History.
Sculpture, Ancient.
Sculpture antique.
Sculpture Turquie İstanbul.
Espaces publics Turquie İstanbul Histoire.
Buildings
Public spaces
Sculpture
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadtbild
Antike
Altertümer
Kunst
Plastieken.
Monumenten.
Oudheid.
Sculpture, Classical Turkey Istanbul.
Public spaces Turkey Istanbul.
Istanbul (Turkey) Buildings, structures, etc.
İstanbul (Turquie) Constructions.
Turkey Istanbul
Konstantinopel

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234076
Call No.: NB85.B375 2004
Status: Available