Biography of a landmark: the Chora Monastery/Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from late antiquity to the 21st century

"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 funct...

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1. Verfasser: Studer-Karlen, Manuela 1977- (VerfasserIn, HerausgeberIn)
Körperschaft: Virtual Conference "Biography of a Landmark. The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century" Online (VerfasserIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Mediterranean art histories volume 7
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Zusammenfassung:"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 as a major work of Palaiologan painting, 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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Aus den Danksagungen: ... to organize the virtual conference "Biography of a Landmark. The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century" in Fribourg (27-28 April 2021). - Dedicated to Robert G. Ousterhout
Beschreibung:XV, 223 Seiten
ISBN:9789004679795